| | A Day At The Tracks
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| | by Brian Hoey
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As the summer foliage grows old and drops to the ground, the many
insulators hidden from the eye now come into view. Oh and if you were here you
would jump with rage when stomping through a rubbish heap you find a shattered
gem, but then! A spark of light from afar! A glimmer of glass! Then running
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| | "Threadless Corner"
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| | by Ray Klingensmith
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The Atlantic Cable
In all the history of early telegraphic
ventures, there are none which show more dedication to complete a project than
the attempt to connect North America and Europe with a telegraph cable. For many
years various telegraph companies and inventors experimented with submarine
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| | Porcelain Insulator News
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| | by Jack H. Tod, NIA #13
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I found a really beautiful baby beehive with an unusual
marking, and I'm wondering if you've heard of it before. It's similar to the
glass CD-143's, quite like the ordinary C.P.R. and C.N.R. porcelain beehives we
see (sketch at right). The glaze is a glisteny white, and the "A.E.R."
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| | "the CALIFORNIA CONNECTION" - CALIFORNIA glass insulators
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| | by Brent Burger
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Following the well known
Electrical Construction and Maintenance Company of San Francisco and the
California Electric Works, the California Glass Insulator Company was third in
line of West Coast insulator manufacturers. Opening in 1912 under the name
California Glass Insulator Company at West Anaheim Road and Hayes Street in Long
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | by Marilyn Albers
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Facts and Finds from Rumania and Kenya, East Africa
I just returned from the Bakersfield Show October 10-11 in California. That
was one fine show! There were well over 50 sales tables loaded with all sorts of
insulators, and 11 excellent displays. The weather was perfect, and this, I'm
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| | Me And The 143 (#7)
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| | by Grant Salzman, NIA #1785
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In this article I promised
to bring you up to date on various additions to my early articles, and I also
want to tell you about a recent trip I made to British Columbia, and about some
exciting discoveries of 143's! First, let me bring you up to date regarding
additions to earlier types.
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