Corning Free Academy - Stator Yearbook (Corning, NY)

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U so w 'att si sl. v4 i 3 Qur present two handled cooky jars have much of the Spanish element ID their construction Thus as we look back at these beginnings of the glass lndustry we realize the great progress whrch as een made along this line Today glass as become not only an ornament but a domestnc and sclentufrc necessity Glass has been so developed that today there IS no place In the home where It IS not IU common use Glass oven and refrigerator dishes and even ware which can be used on top of the stove are now employed Wlndowpanes of glass have of course long been a necessity Glass has always been an essential to modern scrence too for there rs o sclentlflc laboratory which IS not equipped with glass tubes and containers The making of a two hundred Inch telescopic eye to be used to look further rnto the realm of stars than has ever before been possible IS a screntlflc dream come true The three mann steps ID the process of casting such a mirror the melting working, and annealing of the glass have been completed at the Cormng Glass Works after two years of concentrated work not to mention the many years of research necessary IU order to complete successfully such a mammoth task ln California thus mirror will be ground and coated with aluminum In order to Increase rts reflecting power and wull then be placed upon Palomar Moun tarn near the Callfornra lnstltute oflechnology There It IS expected to solve the great riddle of astronomy whether or not the earth IS expanding and to rn crease thirty fold the present volume of the astro nomrcal world A new kind of glass a whrte thread like maternal ns now being developed at the Corning Glass Works and other factories Une type of this fibrous glass as known as glass wool and IS used for Insulation purposes The other IS now used for electric cable wlncllngs and may ID time be used for textile pur poses l-lere agarn, progress has been and IS berng made To the sprrlt of progress ID glass making In Corning and to the men and women whose careers are berng molded through thelr work In the Corning Glass Works we dedicate these pages of our 1936 Stator Page Three e 2VOlUl1On of the two hundred unch desc - . I . X . 1 , V . . . W V , , X , A ' t 1 1 f ' I I . . I J , n , 4 , . . , ' 1 ' I , . ' l Th

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THE STCRY OF GLASS Tl-IE SPIRIT OF PRGGRESS along educatnonal Innes, which has made lcnowledge an essential ID mans llle today IS reflected IU advancements IU various other luelds As schools have llourushed IH ventlons and experxments along sclentuluc and In dustrlal Innes have Influenced the lrves ol people all over the world The ruse of the glass lndustry from its crude beglnnlngs hundreds ol years ago IS one ex ample of such progress and advancement The word glass was undoubtedly derlved from the old Teutonic root gla which means gleaming or shining The orlgtn ol glassmaltlng as a subject which was greatly dnsputed by Plnny Josephus and other learned anclents Pllny s versuon of the discovery of glass concerns Phoenuclan sailors who landed upon the sandy banlc ol a small Palestine rlver and buu't a lure to coolc theur meal They supported their coolung pots upon lumps ol natron or natlve sodium carbonate When the lure had died out they found that the sand and natron had fused and produced a transparent metal The wealcness ol this story Iles IU the lmprobablllty of such a lure producing a degree ol heat sulllclent to combine the materials Josephus tells of a huge forest lure near the seashore whnch created such lntense heat as to melt the mixture ol sand and natron and leave lumps ol the substance whlch became Icnown as glass Pourlng a ladle of glass unto the two hundred unch mold for the telescop c eye Regardless ol how the discovery ol glass came about It IS true that as lar baclc as 9500 B C glass malcung was practased ln Mesopotamla I-lere, beads were fabricated from a pasty substance lar dlllerent from the molten metal whuch IS ladeled from glass pots today When glass was being developed Into decorative forms the Syrian methods ol glass manlpulatlon were carrled Into many other countries The Sldonlans, Mesopotamlans and Chinese produced such expert nmltatnons ol preclous and sem: preclous stones that many of these bats ol green and blue glass have been mustalten for rare jewels The development ol the glass lndustry ID Egypt IS also one ol extreme Interest The Egyptlan mosaic worlc and Egypts triumph ol all colors, Nile blue, have never been rrvaled ln the Greco Roman era when ID the Golden Age of Perrcles the portals ol classlclsm and beauty were opened, glass began to be used more and more lor architectural purposes ln Athens glass floors cell nngs and srde wall panellngs were common whale rn Rome glass was used In the construction of the famous Roman baths The Spanish lnlluence upon glass IS remarlcable, too for chandeliers mnrrors and engraved glassware were made as lar bacl4 as the thirteenth century Page Two , . . , . . , ' 1 - it lt , T 1 , .- H , .1 , ,. if . 4 P' . . . . . 1 1 ' ' 4 . 1 . . I . . . . . I ' 1 1 . . . . .. h I - . . . . I . 1 1 1 1

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Tl-IE SCI-IGOL ur rves are rounded by rlendly gun ance Admlnrstrators, chcol Board Teachers, Alma Mater Wor Ing l'lours ur rves are moulded through assocratrons an learnmg enlors, JUHIOFS, Sophcfnores Freshmen, lunror g The Play ng new oaches, Basketball Football, lntramurals Baseball -lennrs Under the Gavel ur lrves are rellected rn our various actrvrtres Student Councrl, l'l II Echo, Stator, Theater G Id Plays, Music, Varsuty National Honor Socrety Alter 3 45 ur llves are made lull through rellectrons and memorres Snapshots, Prophecy Calendar Wall Advertrsements O I' F' 'd . . . S I , lc. O I' ' ' d ' . S ' t ' . , ' I-ii h. i . Our lives are mirrored in our physical conquests. C 1 1 1 i - O , . . . .. I ' i ui , ' ' P F