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Reprint of information in a
Sandwich Glass reference book submitted by John deSousa. Photos by John
McDougald from collections of Rick Baldwin, Dick Bowman & James Colburn.
During the early 1850's, there was a growing demand for arrestors to protect
buildings from fires caused by lightning. As early as 1851, glass insulators had
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| | Telephone Signs Of Eastern Canada
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| | by Morgan Davis
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Very early Bell sign -- one-sided blue and white. Note: LTD -- the only
example I've seen. Manufactured by W. J. Woodburn and Son, Montreal, Canada.
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| | The Patent Office
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THIRD RAIL INSULATOR
Patent No. 628,667 dated July 11, 1899
by Charles King
and George Mead
In the early 1970's, Carol and John McDougald found two unusual insulators at
a flea market. The owner said that both were found in the same pole hole where
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| | Insulators Undo The "Ugly American" Image
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| | by Richard Clark
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A few years ago we were driving down through eastern Poland to the High
Tatras of Czechoslovakia. Walking through a village we saw unused insulators
well up on the side of an old railroad station, now a union hall. My question,
"Can't we do something about those?" started my linguistic wife on a
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | by Marilyn Albers
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The material presented here this month is basically a repetition of my column
which appeared in the November, 1980, issue of CROWN JEWELS. So it is not new,
but I have a special reason for running it again. Read on.
This fascinating account of The New Trunk Insulator, by R. M. Osborne, was
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