Scientific Glassblowing Books

• Laboratory Scientific Glassblowing: A Practical Training Method by Paul Le Pinnet, 2017.
• Scientific Glassblowing: An Introduction by Clair Ivan Colvin 2008.
• Scientific Glassblowing by E. L. Wheeler was last published in 1958 and is now out of print, but is an extensive 400 page tome. Used copies are scarce, but still available

Scientific Glassblowing Organizations

• The American Scientific Glassblowers Society
• British Society of Scientific Glassblowers
• The Scientific Glassblowers Society of Australia and New Zealand web site (www.sgsanz.org.au/index.htm) appears defunct and apparently now has fewer than 30 members.
• Association of German Scientific Glassblowers

Supplies - Equipment, Tools

• Wale Apparatus (Hellertown, PA).
• Lathe manufacturer Heathway of Millville, NJ, is now part of Arnold Gruppe.
• Bethlehem Burners (torches/burners).

Supplies - Glass and Glass Components

• Ace Glass (Vineland, NJ)
• ChemGlass (Vineland, NJ)
• Safety Emporium (Blackwood, NJ)

Laboratory Glassware - Descriptions and Usage

• The Glassware Gallery, also hosted here at ILPI, is a great resource.

Art Glass Links

• The Glass Museum (a virtual resource)
• Glass Art Society
• Warm Glass's Guide to Fusing, Slumping, and Related Kiln-forming Techniques
• East Falls Glassworks a studio and gallery with step by step pictorials

Additional Glass Information

• Australia National University's School of Art has a Glass Workshop devoted to the art
• Technical Resources listed on our Glass Data page.
• Resource Guide to Glassblowing at Artisan Elevators has a variety of glassblowing-related links.

Stained Glass

• Stained Glass Organization of America

Technical Glass Resources and Data

• You will find a number of tables, calculators, physical properties, formulas, and technical links on our Glassblowing Data, Tables, and Resources page.