Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company | Historic Pittsburgh

1950/1972

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Title
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Creator
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Photographic Department
Identifier
MSP285.B030.F42.I01
Source Identifier
MSP285.B030.F42.I01
Description
The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company (PPG) began as the New York City Plate Glass Company when it was founded in 1880 by Captain John B. Ford, an entrepreneur, and John Pitcairn, a railroad official. The first plant was located northeast of Pittsburgh on the Allegheny River in Creighton, Pennsylvania. By 1883 the company headquarters were moved to Pittsburgh and the plants were producing 20 million square feet of plate glass per year. PPG quickly moved into research and development, building its first research center in 1910. As a result of this dedication to research, the company made new innovations in glass, including the development of Herculite tempered glass in 1938, which is more resistant to shatter than plate glass, and Twindow double-panned insulating glass in 1945. This type of glass became very popular during the housing boom of the 1950s. During the 1990s the company began producing Sungate 500 Low-E Glass, an energy saving form of glass.
Genre
photographs
Subject
PPG Industries.Creighton Plant.
Creighton (Pa.)
Commercial buildings--Pennsylvania--Creighton.
Source
Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
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