Custom Built Apparatus 
in Pyrex, Quartz, Soda or Lead. 
Vacuum Lines, 
Solvent Still Heads,
Schlenk Tubes & Flasks, 
Glass to Metal Seals, 
Quartz to Pyrex Seals or 
any idea you come up with.

A glassblower coiled the long tube of glass used in Galileo’s thermometer. 
A team of glassblowers fashioned the light bulb for Thomas Edison, 
as well as the necessary glass vacuum pumps. 
A glassblower assisted Vladimir Zworykin in developing the tube that 
evolved into the television.
The list goes on. I havent done anything as great as this yet. 
Glassblowing is made up of lots of different categories 
one of those is the 
Scientific and Medical Glassblower.
This is the seven year apprenticeship I served

This workshop
 

is now closed.
 

For all Glassblowing 
 

please contact
 

0131 650 4829 
 

stuart.johnstone@ed.ac.uk 
 
 

What was made in this workshop before it closed
By C. Smith

Glassblowing Workshop, School of Chemistry, North Haugh, St Andrews, KY16 9ST 

For more information about 
what used to be done in 
the workshop
contact

e-mail
c.f.m.smith@btinternet.com
 

The workshop was always open 
for anyone to come and discuss 
or design work projects.
Please let me know as early 
as possible any projects you 
have planned for the future as 
soon as possible as the 
materials needed may have to 
be ordered and deliveries can 
take a long time.