Corning Glass Works
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content: Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Glassware
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content: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Glassware / Business Records and Marketing Material
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Corning credits itself as the first glass company to partner with scientists to forge research and innovation in the use of glass for multiple applications.  Some of its well-known consumer products include the "unbreakable" Chemcor and Pyrex. Corning cast the largest piece of glass in the shape of disk measuring 200 inches and weighing 20-tons for use in the Hale Telescope at Palomar Mountain in California.  The company operates a Museum in New York where ancient and contemporary glass is on display, along with an unsuccessful second telescope disk.