The Generations Of Corning

Author : Davis Dyer,Daniel Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198032311

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The Generations of Corning by Davis Dyer,Daniel Gross Pdf

This engrossing history of an extraordinary company, Corning Incorporated, chronicles how one of the oldest business enterprises in the world maintained its place as a global leader in technology for over 150 years. In the nineteenth century, Corning developed colored signal lights for railroads. In the twentieth century, it created Pyrex and color television tubes; today, it is a Fortune 500 company leading the international marketplace in areas such as fiber optics and photonics. If you use the Internet, drive a car, or simply turn on a light, then Corning is a part of your life. The Generations of Corning tells the fascinating stories of its founding family--the Houghtons, the inventors, and the adventures, behind Corning's remarkable achievements--from unexpected discoveries, like the laboratory mishap that led to Corning Ware, to the years of painstaking, often frustrating, research that led to its breakthrough in fiber optics. From 1851 to 1996, five generations of Houghtons made Corning a company that combined a culture of continuous innovation with a sense of loyalty to its employees and their community. Davis Dyer and Daniel Gross show how the critical changes in organization and leadership that accompanied each new generation helped Corning not just survive, but to prosper, and push itself to the cutting edge of materials technology in decade after decade. The Generations of Corning is a classic success story and a triumph of the inventive spirit.

Author : Amy Corning,Howard Schuman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226282831

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Generations and Collective Memory by Amy Corning,Howard Schuman Pdf

When discussing large social trends or experiences, we tend to group people into generations. But what does it mean to be part of a generation, and what gives that group meaning and coherence? It's collective memory, say Amy Corning and Howard Schuman, and in Generations and Collective Memory, they draw on an impressive range of research to show how generations share memories of formative experiences, and how understanding the way those memories form and change can help us understand society and history. Their key finding—built on historical research and interviews in the United States and seven other countries (including China, Japan, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Israel, and Ukraine)—is that our most powerful generational memories are of shared experiences in adolescence and early adulthood, like the 1963 Kennedy assassination for those born in the 1950s or the fall of the Berlin Wall for young people in 1989. But there are exceptions to that rule, and they're significant: Corning and Schuman find that epochal events in a country, like revolutions, override the expected effects of age, affecting citizens of all ages with a similar power and lasting intensity. The picture Corning and Schuman paint of collective memory and its formation is fascinating on its face, but it also offers intriguing new ways to think about the rise and fall of historical reputations and attitudes toward political issues.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015081548532

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Technology and Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113533660

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American History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas P. Dimitroff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1480884650

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The Houghtons of Corning, New York by Thomas P. Dimitroff Pdf

The Houghton family brought the Industrial Revolution to Corning, New York, with a hot-glass factory and his friend's cut-glass industry. Although his friend's cut-glass industry failed during the first half of the 1900s, the Houghtons built the hot-glass factory into a Fortune 500 company over five generations. Thomas P. Dimitroff traces the history of the Houghton family, glass making in the United States, and life in Corning, New York, in this scholarly book. With the cooperation of Corning Inc. and Houghton family members, the author shares a trove of photographs and draws on his extensive research to give a rich portrayal of the city and the family that played a critical role in its development. The story begins in1635 when John and Ralph Houghton arrived in America from England and takes a decisive turn with the birth of Amory in 1813, who wasn't satisfied being a New England farmer. Deep inside, he was an entrepreneur - although he struggled in his early attempts. Discover the rich history of Corning Inc., and the amazing family that contributed to life-changing glassmaking developments in America and throughout the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Hereford cattle
ISBN : OXFORD:555026205

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Eyton's Herd Book of Hereford Cattle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hereford Herd Book Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Cattle
ISBN : CORNELL:31924078821984

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Eyton's Herd Book of Hereford Cattle by Hereford Herd Book Society Pdf

Author : Paul Grondahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004146185

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Mayor Erastus Corning by Paul Grondahl Pdf

Erastus Corning 2nd was elected mayor of Albany eleven times, serving forty-two consecutive years, a tenure unsurpassed in American political history. Now available in paperback, Paul Grondahl's thoroughly researched and comprehensive biography of Albany's "mayor for life" offers a full, sweeping portrait of Corning, the charming, cunning, patrician front man for the dictatorial Albany Democratic machine. Filled with insight and anecdotes, this biography reveals the enigmatic mayor in ways even his closest associates never imagined. Book jacket.

Author : Margaret B. W. Graham,Alec T. Shuldiner
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195140974

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Corning and the Craft of Innovation by Margaret B. W. Graham,Alec T. Shuldiner Pdf

The authors explore how Corning Incorporation's culture of innovation has kept the company in the vanguard of technology for 150 years. 6 line illustrations. 48 halftones.

Author : Meredith P. Lillich
Publisher : Harvey Miller
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015059293640

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Stained Glass Before 1700 in Upstate New York by Meredith P. Lillich Pdf

The present volume catalogues and illustrates all the stained glass produced before 1700 in the collections of Upstate New York. It includes the glass in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, in the Hyde Collection at Glen Falls, in Ithaca College, and predominantly in Corning, where the Corning Glass Museum is well known for its exceptional collection and where also Christ Episcopal Church houses two interesting fifteenth-century windows. The catalogue covers a wide range of panels of French and English glass from the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and the collections are particularly strong in their holdings of later heraldic panels from the Lowlands and Switzerland. In addition to a detailed examination of the glass, Professor Lillich presents exhaustively researched histories of the individual panels, and sheds much light on the formation of the different collections and the personalities who created them. Every work catalogued is also illustrated, accompanied by clearly presented restoration charts and many comparative illustrations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Industrial management
ISBN : IND:30000112077692

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Management & Change by Anonim Pdf

Author : Herbert I. Corning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:11240568

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The History of the Corning Family by Herbert I. Corning Pdf

Author : Naomi R. Lamoreaux,Kenneth Lee Sokoloff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : High technology industries
ISBN : UCSC:32106018948205

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Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to the Present by Naomi R. Lamoreaux,Kenneth Lee Sokoloff Pdf

Leading economists and economic historians offer case studies and theoretical perspectives that fill a longstanding gap in the existing literature on technology-driven industrial development, discussing the interaction of finance and technological innovation in the American economy since the Second Industrial Revolution. Although technological change is vital for economic growth, the interaction of finance and technological innovation is rarely studied. This pioneering volume examines the ways in which innovation is funded in the United States. In case studies and theoretical discussions, leading economists and economic historians analyze how inventors and technologically creative entrepreneurs have raised funds for their projects at different stages of U.S. economic development, beginning with the post-Civil War period of the Second Industrial Revolution. Their discussions point to intriguing insights about how the nature of the technology may influence its financing and, conversely, how the availability of funds influences technological advances.These studies show that over the long history of American technological advancement, inventors and innovators have shown considerable flexibility in finding ways to finance their work. They have moved to cities to find groups of local investors; they have worked for large firms that could tap the securities market for funds; they have looked to the federal government for research and development funding; and they have been financed by the venture capital industry. The studies make it clear that methods of funding innovation--whether it is in the auto industry or information technology--have important implications for both the direction of technological change and the competitive dynamism of the economy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1324 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UVA:X006146931

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Library Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Debbie Coe,Randy Coe
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0764331396

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Corning Pyroceram*R Cookware by Debbie Coe,Randy Coe Pdf

The first reference book to provide a detailed account of the Pyroceram(R) cookware, developed at Corning by Donald Stookey and marketed in 1958. This special Pyroceram(R) material was first used on military missile nose cones, and because of its durability, it was felt to be a great medium for the kitchen, too. Easily taken from the freezer, used in the oven, microwave, or on the range, it was beautiful enough to be served at the table. After a meal, it went straight to the dishwasher. The cookware saved many steps for the consumer. 60 plus patterns are listed and shown in over 400 colour photographs. Reprints of catalogues, brochures, and historical material, and a detailed bibliography provide much additional information. All information was carefully compiled from original catalogues and reprints, company brochures, trade journals, company advertising, auction lists, eBay, and the shared extensive experience of many dedicated dealers and collectors. An index gives easy access to material.