Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation

Davis Dyer, Daniel Gross

Hardcover, 552pp, 2001, Published by Oxford University Press

This engrossing history of an extraordinary company, Corning Incorporated, chronicles how one of the oldest business enterprises in the world maintained it's place as a global leader in technology for over 150 years. In the nineteenth century, Corning developed colored signal lights for railroads. In the twentieth century, it created Pyrex and color televison tubes; today it is a Fortune 500 company leading the international marketplace in areas such as fiber optics and photonics.