Booklet issued on Pyrex by Corning

TELL OF INDUSTRIAL GLASS

PRODUCTS OF CORNING FACTORY.

AN interesting illustrated booklet on "Pyrex Industrial Glass Products" has been issued by the Corning Glass Works, Corning, N. Y., developer of "Pyrex" glass and the largest manufacturer of technical glassware in the world. Time was when mention of technical glassware meant countries outside the United States. This no longer is true as is witnessed by the booklet recently issued.

Industrial glass as made by Corning has heat resistance, chemical resistance, homeogenity, high electrical resistance, hardness and transparency. These properties have brought glass from the position of a sometime aid to be a real servant of industry. "Age" the booklet says, "has no effect on the properties of this glass, the surface will not discolor or craze, and there will be no loss of transparency. It is permanent and unchanged by corrosion or electrical stress."

"Pyrex" glassware is used in homes for cooking and serving; in factories of many kinds as a valuable aid; in laboratories and in mills; on steamships, railroads and highways for signalling and life-saving purposes. It is used in the form of dishes, bottles, tubing, insulators, reels, bushings, pipe lines, headlights, lamp chimneys and battery jars.

This glass also is made in the form of sheets. Outstanding among the recent achievements of the Corning Glass Works, however, is the development of a new glass, says the booklet, that is nearly as efficient as fused quartz for the transmission of ultra-violet rays of the sun. The immediate demand for this material, it is added, for use in hospitals, sanitariums, schools and institutions has far exceeded production facilities.