Victor Trabucco discusses consulting for Corning Glass at Steuben. Oral history interview with Victor Trabucco by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, September 16, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 01:17.

Victor Trabucco: I make this thing called a polariscope which shows stress in glass when you use different types of glass, or just annealing, how long to anneal things. Most people just overshoot it because they don’t know how to really read this polariscope. I’ve had some companies call me, and I’ve sold them the polariscope and they’ve asked me how to—they told me a cycle that they were running. Because if you have a production studio, you want the glass to come out of your annealing oven as soon as possible, because the longer you tie that up, you know, the more equipment you need to have to run your production through. So a lot of—I have a couple of friends that have used some of my technology here, some of my information, and they’ve greatly reduced their annealing schedule and still have no strain in the glass and they’re able to open their ovens a lot earlier and then reuse them again to charge them up and their production for the day. So this one company called me from Utah, and they were—it was taking five days to anneal this piece. And they told me the dimensions and I said, ‘Oh, that’s way over shot.’ And so over the phone, I just gave my annealing schedule. [inaudible] Right from the hip there, I just gave them the information and I cut it down from five days down to one day.