So i was going to come up with some catchy cool name for this series of posts.  But as i went through and selected pics to put into this, i realized there is really only one possible name i could use.

The Corning Glass Barge is in Waterford NY Today and Tomorrow, June 23, 24 2018.

Tickets are free, or you can just show up and hope it’s not too full.  Even if that was the case you can watch and see pretty good from the shore.

Clicking on the line above will take you to the website for the barge.  It is just one page of Corning’s awesome website.  Everything Corning is there.  You may already know, there is an AWESOME museum out in Corning NY that is a real treat.  I went many years ago and seeing the program today made me want to go back and see it again.  btw – all the pictures in this series were taken with my personal communication and photo device, that has Corning glass as an integral part of it.  Yours too.

Yes, that’s right you almost certainly use Corning glass daily.  in your hand.  with your finger.

Your smartphone screen is almost certainly clad in “Gorilla Glass”  a corning product.  Your welcome.

SO enough from me, let’s see some Corning magic!!

OK this is a glass furnace, aka the “Glory Hole”

The first bubble blown into the glass.  This guy is just starting his career, he has been doing this for 4 years!  Ya you don’t just pick this skill up in a month or so.

So now he adds more glass to his project.

The semi solid glass is real hot (you knew that!) but its constantly wanting to flow downhill.  To counteract this the glass maker keeps the pipe rolling.  As it droops, he rolls.

Now he has blown it bigger with the added glass.

And bigger still.

 

So stay tuned for more awesome stuff as we watch this raw glass get turned into something useful.

And b SURE to GO SEE for YOURSELF!   The barge is in Waterford Today, Tomorrow.

The 27th it will be in Amsterdam.    28th  Canajoharie.

June 30, July 1  Little Falls.

HURRY UP.  the barge is moving west, just like the glass company from NYC did long ago, on barges, on the Erie canal, to Corning NY.

IF YOU CAN CATCH THE BARGE WHILE IT’S AROUND YOU WONT B SORRY!!!!!

ok enough shouting.