From producing Edison's light bulbs to the creation of fiber optics, this volume tells the 150-year story of one of America's most inventive and enduring industrial companies. 47 halftones.

Lenses for railroad lanterns, cut glass for the White House table, Thomas Edison's first light bulb-the glass for all of these was made in Corning, the glass capital of America, the Crystal City.

In the 1830s, when a feeder branch of the Erie Canal linked up with the Cheumung River, Corning first became connected to the rest of the world. By the 1880s, Corning had become a railroad town with trains going in all directions.

Corning and the Craft of Innovation is the story of the extraordinary research and development strategy that propelled this company to its leadership position in leading-edge technologies for the new world economy.Since its founding in the ...

Invaluable for the collector, curator, and dealer alike, The Complete Cut & Engraved Glass of Corning bring to the field of glass collecting a rich storehouse of detailed information from unpublished original catalog material in the Corning ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

... Corning George W. Drake considered calling his company the Crystal City Cut Glass Co .; so did James Sebring , president of the Corning Cut Glass Co.4 So far the record is clear . On May 10 , 1902 , however , China , Glass & Lamps ...

... Corning introduced a new tint called Photo - Brown . Research on both Photo - Gray and Photo - Brown led to faster chemical response times to changing lighting conditions . In all , photochromic ophthalmic glass became an unusually ...