Corning & the Craft of Innovation

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Year: 2001
Pages: 505
Binding Hardcover
ISBN 195140974

Product Code: 756769000

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Margaret B.W. Graham (au); Alec T. Shuldiner (au). For 150 years, Corning Inc. has created new products for an ever-changing marketplace. This is the story of the R&D strategy that propelled this co. to its leadership position in cutting-edge technologies. Corning’s innovations made possible essential items such as light bulbs, TV, Pyrex, catalytic converters for cars, & high-speed telecomm. through fiber optics. In its early days, Corning developed specialty glass for use in railroad signal lenses & glass envelopes for light bulbs. Today Corning leads the world in fiber optics & is a premier provider of cable & photonic products. This book shows how a pattern of innovation begun 150 years ago has put Corning at the vanguard of leading-edge technologies for the fastest-growing global markets. Illustrated.

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