Instruments for Making of GLASS. The instruments made use of in this work may be reduced to these that follow. A blowing pipe, made of iron, about two feet and a half long, with a wooden handle. An iron rod to take up the glass after it is blown, and to cut off the former. Scissors to cut the glass when it comes off from the first hollow iron. Shears to cut and shape great glasses, &c. An iron ladle, with the end of the handle cased with wood, to take the metal out of the refining pot, to put it into the workmen's pots. A small iron ladle cased in the same manner, to skim the alkaline salt that swims at top. Shovels, one like a peel, to take up the great glasses; another like a fire-shovel, to feed the furnace with coals. A hooked iron fork, to stir the matter in the pots. An iron rake for the same purpose, and to stir the frit. An iron fork, to change or pull the pots out of the furnace, &c.