Word: pyroceram
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...medicine is only the beginning. Heat-resistant shields, developed to protect spacecraft plunging back into the earth's atmosphere, have led to the production of Pyroceram dishes that can go from the housewife's freezer to oven without cracking. The increasing complexity of astronavigation has fostered the development of swifter and smaller computers that find no end of applications on earth. The fuel cell used to supply electric power for Gemini spacecraft is being developed for commercial use, and its production of electricity from oxygen and hydrogen without burning hydrocarbons may be one answer to the smog problem...
...Research. With conspicuous exceptions, such as jet planes, and modern computers, defense research has yielded relatively little "fallout" of new civilian products. As a result of their work for NASA over the past three years, thousands of civilian contractors have received only 23 patents; NASA likes to claim that Pyroceram cooking pots and dishes are a result of research into nose cones, but the manufacturer, Corning Glass Works, denies it. Moreover, "fallout" seems to be shrinking as defense gear becomes increasingly esoteric. "Complexity breeds specialization-you find out everything there is to know about a progressively smaller area-and that...
Less than two years after developing its Pyroceram nose cones for guided missiles, Corning Glass Works put on sale in Manhattan department stores the first consumer products of its new heat-resistant glass, which looks like china. The products: a 10-in. skillet and three sizes (1 qt., 1½ qt. and 1¾ qt.) of covered casserole dishes, priced from $5.95 to $12.95. Guaranteed to go from freezer to red-hot burner without cracking, the skillet comes with a removable handle, brass-plated wire cradle and cover so it can be used to serve from at the table...
...Pyroceram is the invention of Dr. S. Donald Stookey, head of Coming's fundamental research department, was designed originally to provide a missile covering that would withstand extreme heat resulting from air resistance. Other uses under way or planned: ball bearings, piston heads, curtain walls for skyscrapers, bulkheads for nuclear ships. Most convincing demonstration to housewives of Pyroceram's properties: heating pots of it red-hot with an acetylene torch, then plunging them into ice water. Next housewares project: equally tough but fragile appearing tableware styled like costly china...
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