Corning listing

[Trade Journal]

Publication: China & Glass Trade Directory

Pittsburgh, PA, United States
p. 53,58,60, col. 1


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TABLEWARE AND GENERAL FLINT

GLASSWARE COMPANIES


Pressed and Blown Ware Plants in the

United States and Canada.

 

On the following pages will be found the companies manufacturing lime and flint glassware, both pressed and blown, for all purposes. After the name of the company and the names of its officers will be found the factory capacity and the kinds of ware made.

A brief classification of principal products giving merely the name and location of companies also is included. Also appended is a list of glass decorators, including independent shops as well as manufacturers operating decorating departments.


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Corning Glass Works, Corning, N. Y.

Plants at Corning, N. Y., Wellsboro, Pa., and Central Falls, R. I. Corning, 4 furnaces, 68 pots; 7 continuous tanks, 61 rings. Steuben division, 2 furnaces, 26 pots. Wellsboro, 2 continuous tanks, 40 rings. Central Falls, 2 continuous tanks, 16 rings. A. D. Falck, president; A. L. Day, vice president; G. B. Holister, vice president in charge of sales; E. C. Sullivan, vice president in charge of manufacturing; W. Sinclaire, secretary; J. L. Thomas, treasurer; H. E. Watson, purchasing agent; W. C. Taylor, chief chemist. Pressed and blown glassware, lamp chimneys, globes and electrical goods, tubing, auto headlight and signal glass, laboratory and optical glass, Pyrex baking ware, electric light bulbs, lenses and lens blanks, conaphore lenses, Pyrex tea pots, Pyrex nursing bottles, Pyrex industrial ware, art ware and radio ware.

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Keywords:Corning Glass Works
Researcher notes: 
Supplemental information: 
Researcher:Bob Stahr
Date completed:March 9, 2011 by: David Wiecek;