| | Patent Pages
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| | by Ray Klingensmith
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The Combination Safety/Safty
This month, rather than a "patent", let's try a "patent applied
for". The unusual insulator this month is the Combination Safety. The CD
139 has some unanswered questions concerning its date of manufacture, use, and
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| | The Magnetic "Egg" -- C.D. 700 and C.D. 700.1 (C.D. EGG and C.D. EGG.1)
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| | by Shirley Patocka
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Arise, all owners of the magnificent Magnetic Egg! We who have one of these
embryo pieces of telegraphic history in our collections are the privileged
possessors of a truly special insulator! It was around away back in the days
when Morse and his co-workers were trying to get the telegraph in a workable
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| | Porcelain Insulator News
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| | by Jack H. Tod
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This insulator is owned by Margaret McDermott (Lena, Ill) and we pictured it
in the April 1976 column on page 20. At that time I stated it was probably an
old style of link strain insulator (a fore of dead-ending insulator such as
the O-B pork liver commonly seen).
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| | "Threadless Corner -- The NY & ERR"
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| | by Ray Klingensmith
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The story of the New York and Erie Railroad has an early beginning. In the
latter part of the eighteenth century vast areas of what is now New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio, were wilderness. General James Clinton, a soldier and
statesman, early saw the need for a means of travel from the eastern seaboard to
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| | Insulator Collector of the Month
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Dear Dora,
Enclosed is another newspaper article. If you can use any or all,
please do. Thanks so much for putting the picture and my letter in your
February issue. I have already received two letters from collectors here in
Oklahoma (who read in Crown Jewels) as close as 50 miles away. I have found out
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