Michael Owens and the Glass Industry
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Michael Owens and the Glass Industry

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Michael Owens and the Glass Industry

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A biography of the "Owens" in "Owens Corning"—a brilliant but humble inventor with nine companies and forty-nine patents bearing his name.

He stands next to Thomas Edison in the pantheon of inventors. Commercial products stamped with his name are ubiquitous in modern life. His inventions are directly responsible for safety glass in car windshields and consistently proportioned medicine jars—and helped to significantly reduce child labor in America. His designs have changed the way we illuminate a dark room and buy pasteurized milk. Michael J. Owens has left an indelible mark in human history, yet his name often has been overlooked publicly, until now.

Michael Owens was a driven but unassuming man who shunned the spotlight, wanting only to create. In this first biography of a visionary, artist, and craftsman, Quentin R. Skrabec's research has uncovered a resourceful, colorful, and dynamic industrialist and inventor. This insightful account sets the stage for Owens by going back to the beginning—the history of glass as an art form. Today, his flourishing legacy includes Owens Corning, employing nearly twenty thousand people in over thirty countries.

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Publisher
Pelican Publishing
Year
2007
ISBN
9781455608836
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business Biographies
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Preface and Acknowledgments
  3. CHAPTER 1: The Glass Age
  4. CHAPTER 2: American Glass: Libbey
  5. CHAPTER 3: Michael Owens: The Irish-American Glassmaker
  6. CHAPTER 4: Libbey Brings His Company to Toledo
  7. CHAPTER 5: Toledo: The Glass City
  8. CHAPTER 6: Owens: The Last of the Victorian Managers
  9. CHAPTER 7: Edison's Light Bulb Lights the Way
  10. CHAPTER 8: The Columbian Exhibition of 1893
  11. CHAPTER 9: The Owens Breakthrough
  12. CHAPTER 10: Owens: The Revolutionary
  13. CHAPTER 11: Owens: The Industrialist
  14. CHAPTER 12: The Taming of the Lion
  15. CHAPTER 13: The Owens Legacy
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index