| | Me And The 143 (#11)
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| | by Grant Salzman, NIA #1785
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Mr. Harvey Prentice Dwight
was an exceptional man who was closely involved with early-day Canadian
telegraphy. Beginning as an operator with the Montreal Telegraph Co. in the mid-1800s, he rose quickly in the organization to become their Western
Superintendent. In the 1880s when Montreal Telegraph and Dominion merged with
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| | A Rainy Day Experience
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| | by Jack H. Tod
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Many years ago, Ron and I spent weekends "liberating" the
old composition "Arizona beehive" insulators from a remote section of
railroad in Arizona. Backpacking out the composition goodies wasn't difficult,
but packing in the heavy Hemingray replacements we got from a distant abandoned
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| | the "California Connection"
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| | by Brent Burger
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The C.D. 178 "SANTA ANA" and the C.D. 260 were
CALIFORNIA's two styles of high voltage power glass. I have yet to see any mold
variations within the C.D. 178 style other than short pours, which cause the
insulators to rest either on the skirt or the inner skirt. This is not, in fact,
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| | Chester N.Y.
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Hi Dora:
Thought I would send this on. I guess no one else thought to take a picture of
this at the National. On the following two pages is the message that accompanied
this display.
Tom G. Moulton
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | by Marilyn Albers
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Insulators from Poland
I have been wanting to write about Polish
insulators for ever so long. Actually, I went to Poland in 1977 with a student
group; but since we were only in that country for about a week and my chaperone
duties had to claim first priority, I was only able to come home with a large
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| | "Patent Pages"
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| | by Ray Klingensmith
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The Blackburn Patent
This month I'm writing
about another of the very unusual insulators, the Blackburn patent.
This particular invention was patented in 1893, and so far only one
specimen has been found. This one was found in South Jersey many years ago by a
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