| | The Peacock Mickey
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| | by Charlie Allmon
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I am writing this article on
January 26. Unless a person loves winter weather, it is just a lousy, rotten
day! We have more than six inches of fresh snow, and the temperature is about
ten degrees above zero. Many of the streets here are snow packed, or worse yet,
the proverbial "sheet of ice".
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| | The OTIS
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| | by John de Sousa
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(Reprinted with permission from the January 1983 issue of
"The Crown Point" newsletter by Dick & Dottie Daugherty.)
The
"Otis Lightning Rod System" was most distinguishable by its insulators
with its unique variations. The "Wiggle Top" (figures 1-8), as it is
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| | Letters to the Editor
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Dear Dora,
One of the interesting things about collecting
CD 121 toll insulators is the embossing variations encountered. The different
AM. TEL & TEL CO. embossings would be a collection in itself.
Prior to
moving to Florida I lived in Maryland and worked for C. & P. Telephone
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| | A New Insulator For Overhead Lines
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A New Insulator for Overhead Lines.
A British
inventor, W. Copeland, has designed a new form of insulator for overhead lines,
which he has described in a recent issue of our English contemporary Electrical
Engineering, as follows:
This insulator can be used for all purposes on an
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | by Marilyn Albers
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A Visit to Northern Europe
We have a guest editor this month! He is Frank Shiels of Fort Worth, Texas. If
you still have your copy of Crown Jewels magazine, July 1980, you can go back
and read the account of his-travels through Finland. From this trip he brought
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