Pyrex suspension and strain insulators,
Corning Class Works offers another forward step in
electrical insulation. A product of research, it
is typical of developments carried on by the Corning
laboratories in many fields.
When supplies of German
scientific glassware were suddenly cut off in the
war period, the chemical laboratories and the
industries of the United States promptly turned
to Corning Glass Works for aid. Then, as now,
Corning Glass and glass research were synonymous.
The Corning laboratories had
already made extended studies of resistant glass
compositions, and as a result were able to enter the
field quickly with their laboratory glassware which
sold under the Pyrex trade-mark. The war emergency
product proved so resistant to corrosive chemicals,
high temperatures, and the rough usage of laboratory
services that foreign scientific glassware never
regained its former place.
Discovery of the high oven
efficiency of this same type of glass plus its rugged
character resulted in the manufacture of the familiar
Pyrex housewares, which have created new standards of
convenience and efficiency in home cooking.
Variants of the original
composition developed through the many sided facilities
of the Corning research organization have found such
uses as lantern globes, fuse plug tops, traffic and
airway signal lenses, thermometer tubes and containers
of many kinds. The complete list extended to several
thousand items. Each one of them has involved studies
of specific requirements and the development of suitable
shapes and compositions.
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A thoroughly substantial background of experience has been
built up by the specialists of the Corning organization for
solving industrial problems with technical glass.
Such a development was the
introduction of Pyrex telephone insulators and pin
type power insulators made of electrically resistant
glass. Now Corning announces its newest electrical
product--
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