Pyrex® revolutionized home cooking and gave bakers and chefs a new tool to fill with ingredients and throw in the oven. Home cooks’ lives were made easier by the efforts of those who developed and tested Pyrex. Dr. Lucy Maltby … Read more →
This entry in the Women in Glasshouses blog series comes from Nancy Magrath, a former reference librarian at the Rakow Research Library. Corning Glass Works built its first dedicated laboratory building in 1913 and hired Dr. Jesse T. Littleton, a … Read more →
Have you ever thought about all the metal in your piggy bank? The United States Mint certainly has. When the United States joined World War II in December 1941, the government worried about strategic reserves of metal, knowing that it … Read more →
This post comes from Alaina McNeal, the Public Services Outreach intern at the Rakow Research Library. A hundred years ago, Evelyn Hortense Roberts began working for Corning Glass Works. Roberts was one of many performing laboratory work at the company, … Read more →