[Evelyn Roberts pours boiling water from teapot onto Pyrex pie plate placed on ice] [electronic resource].

Title: 
[Evelyn Roberts pours boiling water from teapot onto Pyrex pie plate placed on ice] [electronic resource].

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Description: 
1 computer file : black and white
Other Authors: 
Corning Glass Works.
Format of Material: 
Photographs
Bib ID: 
144701
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Location: 
Digital Image
Call Number: 
No call number available
Notes: 
Image is of Corning Glass Works laboratory physicist Evelyn Roberts, in 1917 or 1918, pouring boiling water from teapot onto Pyrex pie plate as it rests atop block of ice on the roof of Corning Glass Works' Mixing Building 38. This demonstration illustrated Pyrex ware's thermal endurance.
Gift of digital image; Corning Incorporated; 2015
Reproduction displayed in the exhibition titled "America's Favorite Dish: Celebrating a Century of Pyrex" on display from June 6, 2015 to March 17, 2016.
Series: 
Pyrex advertising and trade materials