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Gorilla Glass
"New" 48 year old invention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ope6uViLcEY Interesting video. Its nice that its stronger than regular glass, but I would have liked to see them push it until it did break. |
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Gorilla Glass
Bob La Londe wrote:
"New" 48 year old invention. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ope6uViLcEY Interesting video. Its nice that its stronger than regular glass, but I would have liked to see them push it until it did break. Was this video made in 1987? It sure sounds and looks like it. |
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Gorilla Glass
"Cydrome Leader" wrote in message
... Bob La Londe wrote: "New" 48 year old invention. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ope6uViLcEY Interesting video. Its nice that its stronger than regular glass, but I would have liked to see them push it until it did break. Was this video made in 1987? It sure sounds and looks like it. I would not be surprised. The product was developed in 1962. |
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Gorilla Glass
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message ... "Cydrome Leader" wrote in message ... Bob La Londe wrote: "New" 48 year old invention. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ope6uViLcEY Interesting video. Its nice that its stronger than regular glass, but I would have liked to see them push it until it did break. Was this video made in 1987? It sure sounds and looks like it. I would not be surprised. The product was developed in 1962. It has properties that are not dissimilar to the original Pyrex, which is borosilicate glass (still available as cookware in Europe, but it's not the Pyrex sold for that purpose today in the US). "Gorilla glass" is aluminosilicate. -- Ed Huntress |
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Ed Huntress wrote: "Bob La Londe" wrote in message ... "Cydrome Leader" wrote in message ... Bob La Londe wrote: "New" 48 year old invention. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ope6uViLcEY Interesting video. Its nice that its stronger than regular glass, but I would have liked to see them push it until it did break. Was this video made in 1987? It sure sounds and looks like it. I would not be surprised. The product was developed in 1962. It has properties that are not dissimilar to the original Pyrex, which is borosilicate glass (still available as cookware in Europe, but it's not the Pyrex sold for that purpose today in the US). "Gorilla glass" is aluminosilicate. Anchor Hocking still makes & sells borosilicate glass products in the US. A search on their site gives 442 hits so you're wrong, yet again. http://www.anchorhocking.com/search.html?search=borosilicate+glass |
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Gorilla Glass
"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message m... Ed Huntress wrote: "Bob La Londe" wrote in message ... "Cydrome Leader" wrote in message ... Bob La Londe wrote: "New" 48 year old invention. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ope6uViLcEY Interesting video. Its nice that its stronger than regular glass, but I would have liked to see them push it until it did break. Was this video made in 1987? It sure sounds and looks like it. I would not be surprised. The product was developed in 1962. It has properties that are not dissimilar to the original Pyrex, which is borosilicate glass (still available as cookware in Europe, but it's not the Pyrex sold for that purpose today in the US). "Gorilla glass" is aluminosilicate. Anchor Hocking still makes & sells borosilicate glass products in the US. A search on their site gives 442 hits so you're wrong, yet again. Not since 1998, Michael. Read what I said above. Pyrex cookware sold in the US today is tempered soda lime glass, and has been for over a decade. That's why Anchor Hocking doesn't call their glass products "Pyrex." Once again, in your desperate quest to prove your superiority, you've stuck your foot in your mouth. Check your facts, Michael. You should know better by now. -- Ed Huntress http://www.anchorhocking.com/search.html?search=borosilicate+glass |
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Gorilla Glass
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:58:40 -0700, "Bob La Londe"
wrote: "New" 48 year old invention. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ope6uViLcEY Interesting video. Its nice that its stronger than regular glass, but I would have liked to see them push it until it did break. ========== Its an interesting product, but the corporate actions are even more interesting. From the available media reports, Corning will make no attempt to [expand] manufacture of the product in the U.S. but is converting an existing plant in Japan, with the product in finished form, e.g. flat screen TVs, to be imported to the United States. http://www.csmonitor.com/Money/new-e...s-head-to-Asia Thus not only are jobs exported, and the infrastructure/tax base expanded in other than U.S. tax jurisdictions, but the current account trade deficit increased at a time of serious U.S. unemployment and deficits. I have already written my Senators and Representative about this [for what ever good that will do]. A copy of this email is attached below. Feel to use all, any part, or none of it, to write your own "Congress persons." Almost all Senators and Representatives have a web site with a mail page. You can locate your Senators and their web mail addresses at http://senate.gov/ any your representative at http://house.gov/ You can send an email to the President at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ although there is a 1,500 character limit. One hint -- after you identify your "Congress Persons" and locate their web mail pages, "bookmark" for easy future "nagging." ===== start of email ==== "GORILLA GLASS" AND THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER. The media has had several news items about a new and rising demand for a 50-year old product, a very strong and scratch resistant glass by Corning. For detailed information see: http://news.google.com/news/search?a...s&oq =gorilla The reason I am writing is that it appears the patent owner, Corning, appears determined to export the jobs created by the demand for this new old product, and the factory investment needed to produce it. http://www.csmonitor.com/Money/new-e...s-head-to-Asia To be sure, as the owner of the patent [now apparently expired] and possibly "trade secrets," they currently have the right to produce the material wherever they wish and import it for the U.S. market, however it is totally unconscionable for them to receive U.S. tax credits for so doing, either as special "investment tax credits," some sort of "export tax credits for intellectual property," or through deductibility of overseas investments and interest as a business expense on their U.S. taxes. The rationale for tax deductibility for "investments," interest, and capitalization/depreciation of R&D has been that such tax preferences eventually generate enough U.S. jobs, increase the U.S. tax base, develop the U.S. manufacturing capacity and increase domestic "intellectual property" enough to at least offset the taxes initially lost. This is self-evidently no longer the case with the proliferation of U.S. domiciled transnational corporations and their increasing abuse of these provisions of the tax code. I am therefore suggesting: (1) Revision of the IRS code to prohibit the tax deductibility of investments and interest or other payments for these investments, ON U.S. TAXES, for any facilities constructed, operated or purchased outside U.S. tax jurisdiction. (2) Revision of the IRS code for the mandatory pro rata reduction of tax deductabilities, tax exemptions, tax credits, subsidies, etc. after the application of (1) above, by the percent of non-U.S. citizens employed at these facilities, illegal or legal, i.e. H1b. Most of the required data is already available through the IRS W2 wage reporting system, backed by ICE. (3) Revision of the IRS code to provide for the recapture of tax credits and deductions, with interest and penalties, for "R&D," when the products or processes developed are "exported" through sale or license for production overseas, which are then imported into the U.S., unless it can be shown that sufficient U.S. taxes have been generated by the domestic application of the "R&D" through increased jobs, increased tax base, etc. using accepted economic methodology, to offset the tax reductions/exemptions. In the case of "sleeper products" such as "Gorilla Glass," that have remained dormant for many years, NPV/DCF adjustment with a reasonable internal rate of return and inflation adjustment should be applied to the original R&D "investment" costs to prevent "shelving." === end of email ==== -- Unka George (George McDuffee) ............................... The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author. The Go-Between, Prologue (1953). |
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Gorilla Glass
On Aug 3, 9:09*pm, F. George McDuffee gmcduf...@mcduffee-
associates.us wrote: From the available media reports, Corning will make no attempt to [expand] manufacture of the product in the U.S. but is converting an existing plant in Japan, with the product in finished form, e.g. flat screen TVs, to be imported to the United States. *http://www.csmonitor.com/Money/new-e...rilla-glass-in... -- Unka George *(George McDuffee) .............................. Makes perfect sense to me. Why would you make the glass for flat screen TV's in the U.S. when the flat screen tv's are made in Asia. Dan |
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