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9781574981247

Explorations in Glass An Autobiography

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  • ISBN13:

    9781574981247

  • ISBN10:

    1574981242

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-07-28
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

S. Donald Stookey tells of his pioneering discoveries and accomplishments over a life-long career at Corning Glass Works. His discoveries and inventions have left their mark in homes around the world, and have affected the development of eyeglasses, defense systems, electronics, and significant discoveries for years. Learn how one man's risks, questions, interests, and explorations have benefited us all. A refreshing addition to your ceramics library!

Author Biography

Stanley Donald Stookey was an American inventor. He had 60 patents in his name related to glass and ceramics, some patents solely his and others shared as joint patents with other inventors. George H. Beall is the author of Explorations in Glass: An Autobiography, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Introduction
1(2)
My Introduction to Corning Glass Works
3(4)
Photosensitive Glasses
7(14)
Photosensitive Copper Ruby
7(1)
Photosensitive Gold Ruby
7(2)
Photosensitive Opal Glasses
9(3)
Polychromatic Photosensitive Glass: Full-Color Photographs
12(1)
Photochromic Glass: Reversibly Darkening Glass
13(2)
Some Bizzare Happenings with Photosensitive Glasses
15(1)
Glass Coins
16(1)
Cosmic Ray Research
16(1)
Photosensitive Glass for the Office of Strategic Services
16(1)
Fotoform® Glass: Glass That Can Be Photochemically Sculptured and Etched
16(2)
The Invention of Fotoceram®: The Lucky Accident that Launched Glass-Ceramics
18(1)
The Fotoceram® Story
19(2)
The First Glass-Ceramics: A New Family of Ceramics Made From Glass
21(8)
Cordierite Radome Glass-Ceramic
22(1)
Corningware®, Cookware from Low Expansion Spodumene Glass-Ceramics
22(2)
Transparent Low-Expansion Glass-Ceramics
24(1)
Corningware® Patent Infringement Trial: Corning Glass Works vs Anchor Hocking
25(4)
Those Devilish Opal Glasses
29(4)
The Tricky Thermometer Opal
29(2)
The Wellsboro Opal Light Bulb Adventure
31(1)
The Charleroi Barium Phosphate Opal Dinnerware Trial
32(1)
Changing the Nature of Glass
33(16)
Unbreakable Glass and Glass-Ceramics
33(2)
Undersea Strength: Compressive Strength
35(1)
Machinable Glass-Ceramics
35(1)
The Search for Toughness
36(13)
Jadeite Stone: Weapons of New Zealand Maoris
36(1)
The Search for Rubbery Glass: Hydrosilicate Glass
37(1)
An Unexpected Bonus: New Process for Porous Silica Glass and Low Temperature Glassmaking
38(11)
Reflections on the Science of Glass and on Pioneering Research
49(2)
A Review of Successful Commercial Products Based on My Inventions
51(2)
Some Exrracurricular Adventures
53(4)
Dayspring-Housing for the Elderly
53(1)
A College Professorship
53(1)
Other Adventures
54(3)
Epilogue 57(2)
Nanocrystals in Glass
57(1)
Photosensitive Polychromatic Silver Glasses
57(1)
Photochromic Glasses
57(1)
Glass-ceramics
57(2)
Addenda 59(14)
Publications
59(1)
Patents Issued
60(4)
Chronological Table of Selected Stookey Inventions
64(4)
IRI Achievement Award Address, ``The Pioneering Researcher and the Corporation''
68(4)
Awards
72(1)
Memberships
73(1)
References 73(1)
Chronological Chart of Discoveries 74

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