Industry History | Corning — The Flint Works That Named a Glass City
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Industry History | Corning — The Flint Works That Named a Glass City
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People treat Corning as a nameless materials supplier behind phone screens.
The company took the name of the river town it moved to.
Amory Houghton Sr. entered glass in 1851 by buying a small works in Somerville, Massachusetts.
After a decade of short-lived plants, he and his son Amory Houghton Jr. bought the Brooklyn Flint Glass Works in 1864.
A factory fire and tight credit forced a choice: rebuild on the East River, leave the trade, or move.
In May 1868 the board accepted an offer from a Corning banker, Elias Hungerford, and opened Corning Flint Glass Works on the Chemung.
The first line was everyday glass: lamp chimneys, jars, goblets, and blanks for cutters.
In 1875 the firm incorporated as Corning Glass Works.
The present corporation dates its New York charter to December 1936.
The name changed to Corning Incorporated on 28 April 1989.
Headquarters sit at One Riverfront Plaza.
The building a visitor can walk into without a badge is the Corning Museum of Glass, opened in 1951 on Museum Way beside the same river.
Pin the museum plaza.
Describe only what is visible from Centerway.
The 1868 rooms are gone.
What survived the product changes is a specialty-glass shop that learned to sell heat, signal color, and later optical fiber from a town that still prints the company name on the water tower.
Photo: Stilfehler, Corning Museum of Glass exterior, 19 June 2007, via Wikimedia Commons.
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