NASA scientific glass blower - photo

NASA scientific glass blower, c. 1963. Full caption: "TOM SEITZ SCIENTIFIC GLASS BLOWER AT GLASS FABRICATION LABORATORY SHOWN CREATING CUSTOM GLASSWARE FOR CHEMICAL PHYSICAL RESEARCH"

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...837#post179141
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...024#post176118
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...258#post165648
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...053#post160683
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...304#post131095
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...482#post162276

There was a time when one of the requirements for obtaining a PhD in Physics was a demonstrated proficiency in scientific instrument glass blowing. In my university department were examples of handiwork of students and teachers, one of which remains in my private collection today. It's a whimsical piece, a small glass pig with a tiny cork in its nose. If you fill him with water he will wee-wee, but only if you tap his back end. Sadly, scientific instrument glass blowing has become a lost art.