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	Scientific Glassblowing Basics
		To become an accomplished scientific glassblower in a research environment requires years of experience and exposure to the many fields of science.
		Many scientific glassblowers in the United States learn their skills through an informal apprentice style program specific to the company or school they are associated with.
		It does require the glassblower to hold and manipulate the torch around the glass tube that is held in a standard laboratory ring stand.
	www.ecu.edu /chem/glassblowing/gb.htm (5304 words)

	Glassblowing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Glassblowing is the process of forming glass into useful shapes while the glass is in a molten, semi-liquid state.
		The bench is a glassblower's workstation, and has a place for the glassblower to sit, a place for the handheld tools, and two rails that the pipe or punty rides on while the blower works with the piece.
		The molten glass is attached to a stainless steel or iron rod called a punty (or a punty rod, a pontil, or a mandrel) for shaping and transferring a hollow piece from the blowpipe for an opening to create from.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glassblowing (1251 words)

	Glassblowing studio looks to take shape as arts center - The Boston Globe
		Michael Egan, a glassblower from Burlington, Vt., in town to teach a weekend course on the cane technique, proffered a sketch of a complex fl-and-white accented vase to resident Diablo master Christopher Watts.
		Glassblowing, in fact, generates occasional heat between its practitioners.
		To create the twisted ribbing effect Egan desires for the neck of the vase, he begins by dipping the 4-foot metal pipe into the 2,000-degree, gas-heated crucible and gathering a spinning, molten glob from the honey-like batch.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/06/20/glassblowing_studio_looks_to_take_shape_as_arts_center (937 words)

	Chemical & Engineering News: Cover Story - An Essential Craft
		Glassblowers used to be fixtures in the chemistry departments of large research universities and in the workshops of industrial and government research facilities.
		Glassblowers acquire skills by learning from a family member, on the job, through an apprenticeship, or by taking courses.
		Glassblowing must be a labor of love, because the pay is modest.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/coverstory/84/8403glassblowing.html (2383 words)

	Scientific Glassblowing
		A team of glassblowers fashioned the light bulb for Thomas Edison, as well as the necessary glass vacuum pumps.
		The basic responsibility of a scientific glassblower is to to assist the researcher consulting with research groups to determine their custom glassware needs and advise them about what can and cannot be fabricated.
		Scientific glassblowers are not usually asked for run of the mill glassware our function is to build apparatus you can't buy hence the seven year apprenticeship and not a three year one.
	www.st-andrews.ac.uk /~cfms/theglassblower.htm (485 words)

	The Glassblowing Shop - Hand Blown Glass Art and Gifts: The Artists
		Scott, a fourth generation glassblower, is the Grandson of John Cudequest and the son of John and Kathy Warner.
		Chris Kennedy, a fourth generation glassblower, is the Grandson of John Cudequest and the son of John and Kathy Warner.
		She is largely responsible for The Glassblowing Shop’s Christmas line and specializes in the blowing of hollow vessels.
	www.glassblowingshop.com /artists (429 words)

	The Glassware Gallery: Glassblowing
		Sometimes, a glassblower will help you out in a special case or give priority to teaching laboratory items, but that is up to him or her.
		Glassblowers must place each piece in an annealing oven overnight to work out the stresses in the glass that can lead to catastrophic failure (take a look at Joe Walas's page for more on strain and annealing).
		Glassblowers go through years of apprenticeship training; it is much easier to hire a new professor than a new glassblower.
	www.ilpi.com /inorganic/glassware/glassblowing.html (1236 words)

	About Us - Seattle Glassblowing Studio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		About Us Seattle Glassblowing Studio is available for private tours and events with groups from 3 to 20 people.
		Professional glassblowers lead groups in customized experiences ranging from narrated demonstrations to hands-on workshops where visitors create their own one-of-a-kind glass art pieces.
		Glassblowing is an experience your employees or clients will remember for a lifetime.
	www.seattleglassblowing.com /about.html (211 words)

	About Us \| Classic Glass \| Glass Blowing Sculptures and Gifts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Most people generally assume “glassblowing” is used to describe the art of crafting vessels and sculptures from a furnace filled with molten glass.
		You might picture a glassblower using long metal blowpipes and special tools; made from wood, brass and iron, to form the infinite shapes we’re all familiar with when we think of blown glass.
		To add oxygen efficiently, glassblowers would use an air bellow; powered by a foot peddle or sometimes just a tube from their mouth, to make this air stream for the flame.
	www.glassblowingart.com /AboutUs.htm (1082 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Glassblowing
		Hebron is situated at an altitude of 3,000 ft (910 m) in a region where grapes, cereal grains, and vegetables are grown.
		Master glassblower and Professor Stephan Powell, center, of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, demonstrates glassblowing techniques as part of the Olympics Arts Festival at the World Party in Galli
		An original long neck lobe shaped vessel by master glassblower and Professor Stephan Powell of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, created during a glassblowing demonstration as part of the Olympics
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Glassblowing (354 words)

	Glassblowing Class
		Glassblowing is a unique experience and our classes are open to all over 18.
		Glassblowing is physically taxing and you will be exhausted at the end of each piece.
		Move with awareness of your surroundings as you work the hot glass, and be aware of what tools and equipment are hot and may burn you.
	www.oldway.net /glassclass.html (1583 words)

	Glassblowing Services
		Whether your laboratory needs are in chemistry or engineering, biology or physics, our professional glassblower has the expertise to design and build the glassware your require.
		Jan Singhass is a graduate of the Scientific Glass Technology program at Salem College in Carney's Point, N.J. She continued her education as the first woman in the scientific glassblowing apprenticeship program at the University of Illinois-Urbana.
		She is one of the nation's few custom scientific glassblowers, and is an active member of the American Scientific Glassblowers Society.
	www.ncsu.edu /chemistry/glass_shop.html (764 words)

	New Orleans ArtWorks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the glassblowing arena, GlassWorks’ faculty explain each step of the Venetian inspired hand-blown glass, as the glass blowers form shapes from the glowing honey-like, globular gathers of molten glass.
		Often, 3 benches of glassblowing teams are working at the same time, blowing dragons and/or space creatures, or casting sculpted hands in glass.
		Next to the neon and glassblowing arena, the arts of scientific glass flame working, printmaking and paper marbling is complemented by bookbinding.
	www.neworleansglassworks.com /tours.htm (388 words)

	:::scientific glassware, quartzware by cambridge glassblowing ltd, cottenham, cambridge, uk:::
		Cambridge Glassblowing specialises in the manufacture of high quality scientific glassware to the customer’s specification, in both Borosilicate Glass and Silica Quartz.
		Our high quality glassblowing came to the notice of QVF Limited (manufactures of process plant glassware) and in 1984 they appointed us as their repair specialist in the United Kingdom.
		Cambridge Glassblowing Ltd still continues through investment and increased knowledge to expand the range of services we can offer, to ensure our customers receive the highest quality and latest techniques available in scientific glass production.
	www.camglassblowing.co.uk /index.htm (212 words)

	Chemical & Engineering News: Cover Story - Hearts Of Glass For Show And Tell
		See-Through Medical glassblowers at Farlow's Scientific Glassblowing crafted this glass model, which effectively represents the major arteries in the vascular system of the upper chest circulatory system and is part of a collaborative exhibit scheduled for the Smithsonian Institution in 2006.
		Few glassblowers literally do their work under a microscope, a technique necessary for the level of detail required in medical glassblowing.
		Whereas scientific glassblowers work from apparatus drawings and consult with chemists and physicists, medical glassblowers work from cadaver castings and medical drawings and confer with cardiologists and neurologists.
	pubs.acs.org /cen/coverstory/84/8403glassblowing1.html (384 words)

	Glassblowing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Using tweezers, the glassblower guides the pipe holding the punty and attaches it to the center bottom or “end” of the blown glass.
		By tapping the blowpipe with the tweezers, the bubble breaks off at the jack line, and thus the glass is transferred to the second pipe.
		After reheating the glass in the glory hole, the glassblower returns to the bench and inserts the tip of the jack into the small hole left at the jack line.
	www.arttimesjournal.com /art/art_archive/glassblowing/glassblowing.htm (2158 words)

	U of U Scientific Glassblower
		Kevin Teaford started his scientific glassblowing career in 1992 at the Westinghouse-Hanford Co. After three and half years in Research and Development Kevin accepted a position with Farlow¹s Scientific Glassblowing in northern California.
		While at Precision he was introduced to many new aspects of production style glassblowing, which included fabrication of large diameter Pyrex apparatus and the introduction of larger Quartz fabrication.
		Kevin is a member of the American Scientific Glassblowing Society, and has attended many symposia since 1992.
	www.chem.utah.edu /facilities/glassblowing (251 words)

	glassblowing
		Glassblowing is something that has always fascinated me - my early memories include seeing a lampworker creating little statues at Sears, and my Dad bringing home a glass Millefiori Paperweight.
		A Glassblower's Companion: A Compilation of Studio Equipment Designs, Essays, and Glassblowing Ideas by Dudley F. Giberson) just to see if glassblowing was practical as a hobby, and to see if I should continue on to locate a local glass studio.
		However, UrbanGlass has now started having "Weekend Glassblowing", two 5 hour sessions on a Saturday and Sunday, where you get shown the methods of producing glass bottles and vases, as well as a chance to work with glass yourself.
	www.datalife.com /earle/glassblowing.htm (673 words)

	SGW Mobile Glassblowing Studio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Southern Illinois University's Mobile Glassblowing Studio is a fully equipped facility specifically designed to bring the art and craft of working molten glass to audiences interested in experiencing, first hand, the techniques and processes related to contemporary glassmaking.
		The Mobile Glass Studio was designed and created in 1969 through major funding from the Office of Research Development and Administration in the Graduate School at Southern Illinois University.
		Demonstrations and workshops are carried out by Bill Boysen, the Studio's designer and head of the glass program at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, accompanied by two student assistants who are fully capable of demonstrating the craft of blowing glass to audiences of all ages.
	www.siu.edu /~siuglass/gladys.html (441 words)

	Introduction to Glassblowing
		This is an introduction to the basic techniques of Glassblowing.
		The student will learn to manipulate hot glass into aesthetic forms through use of the blowpipe and its related functions of blowing, jacking, blocking, shaping, transferring and finishing.
		Discussions will take place to exchange ideas and information and to relate and solve problems in learning the basics of glassblowing.
	www.bucks.edu /~glassart/introduction_to_glassblowing.htm (232 words)

	Philadelphia Glassblowing Studio To Be Featured on 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Designed by a group of glassblowing experts, the 2,100 sq.ft. studio facility not only produces work for sale, but also offers classes in glassblowing and studio rentals for local glass artists.
		There is a large glassblowing community in Philadelphia and we exist to serve and foster that community.
		There will be demonstrations of work as seen on the show as well as demonstrations by guest artists from the local glassblowing community.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2006920/4/prweb372974.htm (727 words)

	Art of Fire - Learn glassblowing from Art of Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Come visit us, watch our glassblowing, ask questions about our course offerings, sign up for a class, and browse our art gallery.
		For those of you who are new to our facility this is an excellent opportunity to find out how glassblowing works and get a feel for our program.
		Our Beginning Glassblowing course is designed to provide you with the basic introductory skills necessary to complete simple vessels.
	www.artoffire.com /instruction.shtml (283 words)

	Corning Museum of Glass \| Studio Courses \| Winter Session 6
		A variety of goblet stems and decorative techniques will be offered, and students will be introduced to the Salviati Collections, on which Mr.
		Quarisa will thrill students with his vast array of glassworking techniques.Two years of Venetian-style glassblowing experience are required.
		ELIO QUARISA has a lifetime of experience in glassblowing, having begun his career at the age of nine.
	www.cmog.org /index.asp?pageId=1054 (390 words)

	Glassblowing galore \| MetaFilter
		I was thinking of getting into glassblowing until a friend of mine who was in the jewelry industry told me about the glassblowers he knew all having serious respiratory ailments.
		Most respiratory issues faced by glassblowers are incurred during the coldwork process (grinding down punty marks, etc) because of the silica that gets released.
		The only glassblowing injuries I ever sustained were small burns - and those always from metal tools that were still hot, not from the glass itself.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/40504 (1054 words)

	UO Stratics - Glassblowing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Glassblowing is a skill that can only be learned by Grandmaster Alchemists
		The book "Crafting Glass with Glassblowing" can be bought from Gargoyle Alchemists in Ver Lor Reg, the Gargoyle city in Ilshenar.
		Sand is mined my miners on beaches, and is hard to come by.
	uo.stratics.com /content/skills/glassblowing.shtml (172 words)

	HOME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Glassblowing Facility provides highly specialized support for teaching and research operations within the
		conducted for graduate students to help improve their skills in glassblowing and vacuum techniques.
		Glassblowing Facility maintains the only active Scientific Glassblower Apprentice Training Program in the United
	www.public.asu.edu /~aomdw/GLASS (170 words)

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		Edward Carberry - Glassblowing: An Introduction to Artistic and Scientific Flameworking
		The ancient art of glassblowing has been passed down throughout the centuries in Europe.
		This glass is shown as the number 4 on the pictureTimeless and elegant, Tapio stemware has become one of the most acclaim...
	www.shopping.com /xGS-Glassblowing (781 words)

	Glassblowing - Workshops at the Summer High School Program at Snow Farm: The New England Craft Program
		The glass studio is equipped with a 250 pound tank furnace, a sand blaster, two electric annealing ovens and three glory holes.
		In the process of working with hot glass you will be involved with casting and slumping, as well as glassblowing.
		There will be a strong emphasis on developing basic skills, but you will also be encouraged and given the opportunity to experiment with historical as well as more contemporary techniques as you develop proficiency in the medium.
	www.snowfarm.org /summerhsprograms/glassblowing.html (235 words)

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