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  • Corning Founded

  • Develops Glass Envelope For Thomas Edison Bulb

  • Arhtur Houghton receives a patent for a process to pull glass tubing vertically

    Corning glassworks contructs a 187 foot tower, known today as "little joe", for the process

  • Research Center Established

  • A Corning physicist asks his wife to bake a cake in a sawed off batter jar made from Corning's new heat resistant Nonex glass.

    The experiment was the inspiration for the Pyrex line of cookware

  • Frank Hyde Tinkers and Creates High Purity Fused Silica

  • Develops Process for Chemical Vapor Deposition / High Purity Fused Silica

  • Corning has a significant presence at the World's Fair in NYC, including the picture tube for RCAs "futuristic" television

  • Photosensitive Glass Invented

  • Fotoform Invented

  • Fotoceram Invented

  • Process to mass produce TV picture tubes

  • Produces lead-free glass TV tubes

  • Invents New method for centrifugal casting of TV funnels

  • Developed process to fabricate the purest fused silica glass ever made

  • Don Stookey discovers first synthetic glass ceramic

    One day in 1952, Don Stookey, a Corning Glass Works chemist placed a sample of photosensitive glass inside a furnace and set the temperature to 600 degrees Celsius. At some point during the run, a faulty controller let the temperature climb to 900 degrees C. Expecting a melted blob of glass and a ruined furnace, Stookey opened the door to discover that, weirdly, his lithium silicate had transformed into a milky white plate. When he tried to remove it, the sample slipped from the tongs and crashe

  • Maas Producing TV Tubes

  • PYROCERAM Glass invented

  • PYROCERAM debuted as a Corning Ware

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    Project Muscle launched

    a massive R&D effort to explore other ways of strengthening glass. A breakthrough came when company scientists tweaked a recently developed method of reinforcing glass that involved dousing it in a bath of hot potassium salt. They discovered that adding aluminum oxide to a given glass composition before the dip would result in remarkable strength and durability. Scientists were soon hurling fortified tumblers off their nine-story facility and bombarding the glass, known internally as 0317, with

  • Chemcor launched

    • Corning began marketing the glass born out of Project Muscle as Chemcor and thought it could work for products like phone booths, prison windows, and eyeglasses. Yet while there was plenty of initial interest, sales were slow. Some companies did place small orders for products like safety eyeglasses. But these were recalled for fear of the potentially explosive way the glass could break. Chemcor seemed like it would make a good car windshield too, and while it did show up in a handful of Jave

  • Overflow pipe downdraw process for producing fusion sheet glass patented

  • In the late 1960’s, Corning locates its research center at the Sullivan Park complex in Corning, New York.

  • In the early 1970’s, Corning supplies individual cut sheets of Corning 0211 glass to worldwide LCD development labs

  • ◦ Also in the early 1970’s, Corning develops the first fusion machine and begins producing thick commodity glass using a unique fusion-forming process.

  • the ability to manufacture ultra-thin Corning 7740 glass using fusion is demonstrated. Active matrix LCD development laboratories are provided with samples for use as substrates.

  • Corning’s manufacturing facility in Harrodsburg, Kentucky adds capability to manufacture LCD glass

  • The first fusion trial of an alkali-free glass, Corning 7059 fusion, occurs in 1984. During the 1980’s, 7059 glass substrates made possible the development of amorphous silicon active matrix LCD technology

  • Corning Precision Glass KK is established in Japan; Corning establishes dedicated "Precision Flat Glass" business unit for worldwide flat panel applications. The Corning division is later called Display Technologies.

  • New high-strain point Corning 1733 fusion flat glass, a precursor to Corning 1737 glass, EAGLEAPT™, and EAGLE2000®advanced display glasses, is produced on commercial manufacturing equipment in 1988.

  • ◦ Corning opens LCD glass substrate manufacturing facility in Shizuoka, Japan in 1989.

  • Corning was the first company to introduce an active matrix LCD glass substrate with a pristine non-polished surface.

  • Corning 1737 glass is introduced

  • Samsung Corning Precision Glass Company, Ltd. is created as Corning's 50-percent owned equity venture with Samsung 1995

  • Corning introduces EAGLE2000®glass in 2000 and doubles the company’s worldwide production capacity for LCD glass

  • ◦ Corning wins the Advanced Display Product of the Year Award (ADY) for EAGLE2000®glass, the first glass substrate to ever receive this honor.

  • Corning becomes first commercial supplier of Generation 4 size glass substrates

  • Corning becomes first commercial supplier of Generation 5 size glass substrates

  • Corning becomes first commercial supplier of Generation 6 size glass substrates

  • Samsung Corning Precision supplies the world's first commercially available thin film transistor (TFT) grade Generation (Gen) 7 glass substrates for active matrix liquid crystal displays (LCD

  • - EAGLE XG® Glass Substrates created. Driven by the vision of Dr. Peter Bocko, Chief Technology Officer, Corning created the first LCD glass substrate without arsenic and many other toxic chemicals. The task proved daunting, and no other company had tried

  • Gorilla Glass created

    Cell phone manufacturers challenge Corning to find a cover glass for their devices that is more damage resistant than traditional materials such as soda-lime glass and plastic. Corning finds a way to make glass thin and light enough for mobile devices, but still tough enough to resist the scratched, bumps and drops of everyday use. Gorilla glass, the impossible to break, impossible to scratch, material that has shipped on devices such as the Motorola Droid and LG’s X300 notebook, started out as

  • Willow Glass created

    Corning Willow Glass will help enable thin, light and cost-efficient applications including today’s slim displays and the smart surfaces of the future. The thinness, strength and flexibility of the glass has the potential to enable displays to be “wrapped” around a device or structure. As well, Corning Willow Glass can be processed at temperatures up to 500° C. The real innovation behind Willow Glass is how it’s manufactured. Inventing the glass was an achievement in itself. But Willow, which

  • Lotus Glass created

    Corning Lotus™ Glass is a high-performance display glass developed to enable cutting-edge technologies, including organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays and next generation liquid crystal displays (LCD) by providing a stable and reliable platform from start to finish