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I Built The Most Powerful Blow-Lamp I Could

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I try to take my reconstruction of the "Blow-Lamp" as far as I can, doing my best to reproduce the capabilities of the tool as it was described in T.P. Danger's 1830's glassworking manual; 'The Art of Glassblowing'

References(in order of appearance)
The 'Mutus Liber'(containing depiction of alchemists using blow lamps):
https://www.loc.gov/item/10018432/

T.P. Danger's 'Art of Glass Blowing':
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55266/pg55266-images.html

Faraday's 'Chemical Manipulation':
https://archive.org/details/chemicalmanipula00fararich/page/n7/mode/2up

Middleton and Knowles' The History of the Thermometer and its Use in Meteorology':
https://archive.org/details/thermometer0000unse/mode/1up

Hero's pneumatica(woodcroft's 1851 english translation):
https://www.loc.gov/item/07041532/

Corning Museum of Glass Lampworking Videos:
https://youtu.be/Y7cwdXpGWHU?si=HPq1lRNzxJQfOy2M
https://youtu.be/2SJY0foypAo?si=tcQMCQGiv9RpPap4
https://youtu.be/Z_yB0AUND24?si=KQaKvu9JqRzRLUIi

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