Corning Incorporated Research (Sullivan Park)

Corning Glass Works' research operation, tracing to its first dedicated research department in 1908 and consolidated at the Sullivan Park campus starting 1965. Developed Pyrex (1915) and, in 1970, the first practical low-loss optical fiber (Robert Maurer, Donald Keck, Peter Schultz) -- the physical medium the modern internet's long-haul backbone still runs on. Gorilla Glass followed decades later.