Before heading out the door after a day of research at Corning Glass Works in 1913, physicist Jesse T. Littleton grabbed the sawed-off bottom of a round borosilicate glass battery jar. He did so at ...
The story of Pyrex glass began like most inventions do: with a problem. Bessie Littleton's earthenware casserole dish had cracked. It was 1914 and Littleton's husband, Jesse, was working as a ...
IT is well known that plants in water culture may absorb appreciable quantities of boron from glassware such as ‘Pyrex’ and ‘Hysil’, which contain borosilicates. The literature has been reviewed by ...