In 1960s the test kitchen, now led by June Packard, the Home Economics department staff was busy answering more than 150,000 letters they received every year. Field staff from the Home Economics department traveled widely to spread the word about … Read more →
Typewriters clattering, designers at drafting tables, phones ringing—all the sights and sounds of a typical 1930s office building, but in the offices of Corning Glass Works amid the typical business activity wafted scents of roasting chicken and baking cakes. Pyrex’s … Read more →
Pyrex became a reality when Bessie Littleton, wife of Corning Glass Works physicist Jesse Littleton, baked a sponge cake in a sawed-off battery jar made of Pyrex and proved glass could be used in the oven. From product testing to … Read more →
The Florian Archives contain stunning black-and-white photographs, prints, and negatives taken by photographer Robert Florian. These images capture the first moments of the American studio glass movement and its founding artists. The founding fathers of the American studio glass movement are … Read more →