[ams6110]

Glassblowing is a disappearing trade itself. I'm not sure what university chemistry departments are doing these days, an in-house glass shop with one if not several skilled glassblowers used to be pretty common. Likely it's cheaper now to have this outsourced.

[bch]

Here's a story from Caltech:

http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-caltech-glassbl...

[rwmj]

Imperial College's chemistry lab has their own glassblower:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24787-dream-job-scien...