Notes:
This item is in the Corning Glass Works collection.
Corning Glass Works collection
Additional information collected by Mr. Baker and not included: photos from Largey, Gale. Life in Wellsboro 1880-1920 (CMGL: F159.W45.L32); History of Wellsboro Pennsylvania plant 1916-1966 (Corning Glass Works Archives Boxes, folder on the ribbon machine and Wellsboro)
Contents:
Photo of Woods--
Photo of Gray--
Photo of experimental ribbon machine--
New lamps for old, by F.W. Preston (photocopy of article in The Glass Industry, Aug. 1931)--
The Corning Ribbon Machine (Internal memo from KMZ 11/29/77)--
"The Houghtons of Corning (photocopy of article in Fortune, July 1945)--
History of Wellsboro Plant [1916-1966?] (undated typed manuscript)--
Corning Bulletin no. 9075: Organization change, Nov. 20, 1926--
Mechanical developments, by David E. Gray, November 14, 1941.
Article from the Wellsboro Gazette, Half century in Wellsboro, Corning Plant...--
2 typed manuscripts (History of Wellsboro Plant, ca. 1959, and Bulk packing in the Wellsboro plant, 6/12/72)--
How Wellsboro Won the "E" (from the Gaffer?)--
Let there be light: The story of the Corning Ribbon Machine, by Burton H. Baker--
copies of patent 1,790,397 (issued Jan. 27, 1931)
