S2 E13 Company profile: Corning
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The picturesque town of Corning in upstate New York doesn’t look like the site of bleeding-edge innovation. But inventions by a 174-year-old glass company there have changed the modern world, thanks in part to some blunt advice from Steve Jobs.
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| 0:41.8 | The Economist So I'm going to start us in the past. |
| 0:47.8 | And I hope the doors are unlocked. |
| 0:49.3 | If not, we'll get unlocked. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm being given a tour of a museum of glass by its president, Carol White. |
| 0:58.2 | We start with the origins of glassmaking in ancient Mesopotamia, then it spreads to Egypt |
| 1:03.6 | and then across the Mediterranean. |
| 1:06.4 | White has a PhD in Roman glass. |
| 1:09.7 | If she hosted a podcast, it would be called boss glass. |
| 1:13.7 | And if you can think of a type of glass, her museum probably has it. |
| 1:18.1 | These are perfume vessels, more perfume vessels. |
| 1:20.5 | More fabulous Italian glass. |
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