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Blown away by the wonders of glass at Corning’s spectacular museum

15 Jun 2022 Robert P Crease
Taken from the June 2022 issue of Physics World, where it appeared under the headline "Blown away by the wonders of glass".

Robert P Crease visits the Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York, which claims to house the largest collection of glass art and artefacts in the world

The Innovation Center at the Corning Museum of Glass
Splendid stuff: inside the Innovation Center at the Corning Museum of Glass(Courtesy: The Corning Museum of Glass)
I’m standing inside a cylindrical tower made up of hundreds of casserole dishes as if I’m surrou

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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