This special re-print edition of Shenstone's book "The Methods of Glass Blowing: For Use of Physical and Chemical Students" is a guide to glass blowing. Written in 1897, this classic text provides insight into everything a person would wish to know about the art of glass blowing. Topics include: Glass Blowers' Apparatus, Varieties of Glass and Their Management, Cutting and Bending Glass, Forming Glass Apparatus With the Blow Pipe, Making Thistle Funnels and much more. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.