Reconstructing a 200 year old device for Melting Glass in your Living Room
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 Published On May 29, 2023

In my third video on the topic of the blow lamp, I finally get down to business working glass in my off-grid workshop by reconstructing the "continued Current Blow Pipe" that made glass working easier for individuals in the 1800s, so much so that some people kept them in their bedrooms.

link to my previous blow lamp video:    • Bringing Back The First Blow torch  
and to my first blow lamp video:    • The Worlds First Blow Torch  

Thanks to the Corning Museum of Glass for constantly being an amazing source of information on this topic, and to Beth Hylen for this article: https://www.cmog.org/article/lamp

The primary sources I used in this video, in order of appearance:
Theophilus 'On Divers Arts' as translated by Hawthorne and Smith 1963
T.P. Danger 'Art of Glass Blowing' translated in 1831, reprinted by lector house
Michael Faraday 'Chemical Manipulation' second edition 1842

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