New lab dedicated; 150 Guests entertained by Owens Illinois

NEW LABORATORY IS DEDICATED

OWENS-ILLINOIS COMPANY DEDICATES NEW RESEARCH LABORATORY

Educators, engineers, industrial leaders and government representatives, numbering more than 100, today attended the dedication of the Owens-Illinois Glass company's new research laboratories at the Newark plant of the industrial products division. Constructed of glass brick; insulated with the most modern insulating material science has been able to produce, air conditioned, the new laboratory is the scene of research in the application of glassfiber in many industrial and domestic uses. Above left is an exterior night view of the modernistic building. To the right is a view of the machine shop where engineers and mechanics develop new machinery for the processing of glass fiber. Below is the office of the laboratory director, Games Slayter, who is host in today's event. High officials from the Toledo offices of the company are among those attending the ceremonies.

150 Guests Are

Entertained By

Owens-Illinois

Leaders in Science and Industry Attend

All-Day Program of Newark Plant;

University of Illinois President

Gives Dedication Address.

One hundred and fifty leaders in education, science, research and industry headed by President A. C. Willard of University of Illinois, assembled this morning in the plant of the Owens-Illinois company to formally open the recently constructed Industrial and Research laboratory, south of the general factory offices.

Following a breakfast at the Granville Inn the guests were transported to the plant where William E. Levis, president of the Owens-Illinois company, introduced President Willard, who made the dedication address.

"How has this all come about?" said Willard. I am sure this group here assembled expects me to answer in one much abused word — Research. Research gets mighty little credit for the discovery of glass, unless research accepts all scientific accidents as its own children.

"The origin of glass is shrouded in obscurity, and speculation suggests that its discovery was largely, if not entirely accidental. All we know is that the accident happened a long time ago and whether it was an Assyrian, an Egyptian, or a Phoenician or some other artisan who gazed with wonderment and appreciation on the liquid nature of silicates before him we shall never know," Willard said.

Many Uses of Glass

It is not necessary to call by name the long list of manufactured products made of glass to impress you with its importance. I would rather ask you to imagine a glass free world, a world in which no glass of any kind existed. For example, remove glass from our modern world laboratory and you could practically stop all scientific research and experiment study in the natural science of chemistry and physics, to say nothing of astronomy.

Training the local plant of the Owens-Illinois company, a daring venture in the widening field of modern glass technology, President Willard said "But to the Owens-Illinois company with its present experience in creating glass products of many kinds, with its . . . [illegible text] . . ., with its organization, including more than 14,000 employees, in their 21 plants and with

[not finished]