A History of Corning Ware and the Corning Ware Percolator

Описание: In this video, I talk about the history of Corning Ware and the Corning Ware Percolator. Made from a new, durable space age material called pyroceram, Corning Ware would dominate cookware sales in the 1960s.

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“Handles Could Fall Off Millions of Coffee Makers,” Muncie Evening Press, Sep 4, 1973 (via newspapers.com)

”Percolators by Corning found risky,” The Roswell Daily Record, Sep 5, 1979 (via newspapers.com)

“Pot problems…Corning recalls 18.5 million percolators,” Messenger-Inquirer, Sep 5, 1979 (via newspapers.com)

“S. Donald Stookey, Scientist, Dies at 99; Among His Inventions Was CorningWare,” William Yardley, The New York Times, Nov 6, 2014 (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/bu...)

“Hard Ceramic Makes Missile Cones,” The New York Times, Mar 14, 1958 (https://www.nytimes.com/1958/03/14/ar...)

The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation, Davis Dyer and Daniel Gross, 2001 (via Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/generatio...)

Corning and the Craft of Innovation, Margaret B. Graham and Alec T. Shuldiner, 2001 (via Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/corningcr...

“Corning to Sell Most of Its Cookware Unit,” The New York Times via Bloomberg News, Mar 3, 1998 (https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/03/bu...)

“Company News: Kohlberg Kravis Unit Taking Over General Housewares,” The New York Times via Bloomberg News, Aug 3, 1999 (https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/03/bu...)

“Marketing Gives Corning a Boost,” The New York Times, Apr 2, 1988 (https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/02/bu...)
“Corning Glass Says Recalls Total 2 Million,” Hartford Courant, Mar 18, 1980 (via newspapers.com)