| | Me And The 143 (#13)
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| | by Grant Salzman, NIA #1785
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Anyone studying the past
history of Canada runs into the name of Frederick Withycombe. In 1899 he
patented the idea of making insulators with ridges all over them. This was not
necessarily a new idea. The American inventor, Foree Bain, had patented a ridged
insulator some nine years earlier, but for whatever reason the earlier product
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | by Marilyn Albers
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Saudi Arabia and Israel
I want to talk about two different
porcelain insulators this month, one coming from Saudi Arabia and the other from
Israel. Most of this information was given to me by George Cowan of Houston,
Texas, a young single fellow 24 years old, who went to work for General Electric
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| | A Lighter Tone of Carnival - The Obscure TS-2 & TS 3
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| | by Colleen & Ken Crawford
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We had the fortunate luck one day to discover three very unusual
insulators near our home, two CD 142.4 
3 and a CD 142 TS-2 (with just that
embossing, TS-2). They were together on abandoned lines along the local
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| | Angus S. Hibbard - Pioneer Telephone Executive and Inventor
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(A reprint from the Bell Laboratories Record)
by R. B. Hill
General Staff
At a conference
held by the American Bell Telephone Company in Boston in 1885, a paper was read
by a young man named Hibbard, describing the methods he had followed in building
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