Balloon Support for Telegraph Wires

Reprinted from "INSULATORS - Crown Jewels of the Wire", July 1971, page 2

Patent number 258,005 May 16, 1882

Title: Balloon (*) Support for Telegraph Wires, by William Beeson, Miles City, Montana Territory

For use where poles would be unsightly in the city, or over rivers. The bottom fixture is a street light.

(*) a metal gas filled balloon