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The Corning Museum of Glass is a museum in Corning, New York, United States, dedicated to the art, history, and science of glass.It was founded in 1951 by Corning Glass Works and currently has a collection of more than 50,000 glass objects, some over 3,500 years old.
In his corner office at Corning Inc.’s towering steel-and-glass headquarters in Corning, N.Y., CEO Wendell Weeks keeps a small, yellowed piece of paper in a dark wood frame behind his desk ...
Corning is a city in Steuben County, New York, United States, on the Chemung River. The population was 10,551 at the 2020 census . It is named for Erastus Corning , an Albany financier and railroad executive who was an investor in the company that developed the community.
In 1915, Corning created an improved heat resistant glass formula and launched Pyrex, the first-ever consumer cooking products made with temperature-resistant glass, in 1915. [ 13 ] The California Institute of Technology 's 200-inch (5.1 m) telescope mirror at Palomar Observatory was cast by Corning during 1934–1936, out of low expansion ...
A racing-themed glass demonstration at the Corning Museum of Glass, with the help of Watkins Glen International, drew hundreds of NASCAR fans to the museum for "Winning Wednesday."
Steuben Glass is an American art glass manufacturer, founded in the summer of 1903 by Frederick Carder and Thomas G. Hawkes in Corning, New York, which is in Steuben County, from which the company name was derived. Hawkes was the owner of the largest cut glass firm then operating in Corning.
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Little Joe Tower is a landmark structure in Corning, New York, United States. The tower was built in either 1912 [1] [2] or 1913 [3] [4] by Corning Glass Works (now known as Corning Incorporated). The construction came during a period of growth for the company, and the 187-foot (57 m) tower was used in drawing glass for thermometer tubes.