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Two large stained-glass windows installed by Hartford City Glass Company's Belgian glass workers A New England Glass Company ewer , 1840–1860 A Novelty Glass Company advertisement in 1891 An electrical insulator made by Whitall Tatum Company , circa 1922
The New York City store closed in 2012. Before closing, it was the subject of a New York Times case study which detailed the difficulties experienced by the store. [ 12 ] In 2013, glassybaby opened a retail outlet in San Francisco's Presidio Heights neighborhood. [ 13 ]
Victor Insulators, Inc. based in Victor, New York was founded in 1893 by Fred M. Locke, and is the oldest electrical insulator company in North America. They originally made glass insulators for electrical lines. They suspended operations during the Great Depression but resumed operations in 1935 as Victor Insulators. Among their product mix ...
The company moved again to its ultimate home and eponym, the city of Corning, New York, in 1868, under leadership of the founder's son, Amory Houghton, Jr. 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]
Other attempts to produce glass were made during the 1600s and 1700s, and a few had some success. Glass works in New Amsterdam and New York City, the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, Philadelphia, and the province of New Jersey's Glassboro are often mentioned by historians. Much of the evidence concerning the 17th century New Amsterdam glass ...
The company was founded by Theodore C. Wheaton, a pharmacist and businessman, who in 1883 settled in Millville, in Cumberland County, New Jersey, southeast of Philadelphia. Southern New Jersey had by that time emerged as the center of U.S. glass manufacturing because of the prevalence of natural resources such as wood and silica sand. Wheaton ...
The city where Trump made his name and reshaped the skyline while romping through the tabloid era of the 1980s is about to judge its estranged son. A political circus erupts outside the court
From 1937 to 1983, the company operated the oldest glass-manufacturing facility in the United States, established in 1863, in Salem, New Jersey. [5] Anchor Hocking's wine and spirit bottles were crafted at a factory in Monaca, Pennsylvania. [6] It also had facilities in Elmira, New York, and Streator, Illinois.