side-tubes

Updated: June 13, 2025

Pendant from the blowpipe, the bulb was placed over the hot-bench, where Stevens, now begoggled, begloved, and armed with a welding torch, proceeded to fuse into the still, almost plastic, glass sundry necks, side-tubes, supports and other attachments of peculiar pattern.

E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith - Spacehounds of IPC