Owens-Corning Fiberglas Company Plant - three spools   Save
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Description: This photograph shows three spools on top of a sewing machine like device. This photograph was grouped with others of the Owens-Corning, and this could be spun-glass thread of some kind. The Owens-Corning Fiberglas Company Plant, located at 400 Case Avenue near Shields Street in Newark, occupies what was formerly the abandoned works of the largest bottle manufactory. Then called Owens-Illinois, the factory was purchased in 1933, to provide spun-glass and glass fiber research facilities. Corning Glass had been experimenting with such fibers for years, and the two companies decided to work jointly on development. By 1938, the two companies had merged to become Owens-Corning. During the 1930s and 1940s, the company manufactured 'glass wool' insulation for battleships, refrigerators, and houses, and spinning glass into delicate silk-like fibers to be woven into glass cloth, and fabrics for insulating electric wires. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F09_027
Subjects: Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation; Newark (Ohio); Sewing machines
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)