| | The Patent Office
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| | by Elton Gish
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GEORGE W. KIDWELL INSULATOR
Patent No. 120,884 dated Nov. 14, 1871
A new two-part glass telegraph insulator has been found! It was discovered by
the American Resources Group, Ltd. in Salem, Illinois while performing
archaeological work for the Illinois State Museum. As you can see in the
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| | An Alaskan Mystery
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| | by Tom Garcia
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It was December 1968 and I had just arrived at my new duty station, Eielson
AFB, Alaska. What a difference! From the steaming jungles of Vietnam to the
frozen snow covered tundra of "The Last Frontier," our 49th state.
In
Vietnam I had been flying the Bell "Huey," which was (at the time) a
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| | Coal Town In Pennsylvania Nets Great Porcelain
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| | by David Adams
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In September 1990 my friend Ron Rath and I took a trip to the coal town area
of upper Pennsylvania. We decided to leave early on Saturday morning to beat the
traffic. The morning was perfect for our 2-1/2 hour drive north.
Our first stop
was at a substation. We looked around and found some nice M-4612' s in
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| | Bea Lines
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| | by H.G. "Bea" Hyve
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Canada has so many nice collectors, so let's go back for another interview.
This time we will talk with Eric Halpin, who lives in a town with the intriguing
name of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Thunder Bay is on the northern shore of Lake
Superior, about 500 miles due north of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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| | The Double Threaded Insulator
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| | by Eric Halpin
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The development of threaded pinhole insulators is a history of both man's
technological tribulations and ingenuity. In the same manner that the actual
electromagnetic telegraph and its operating apparatus was continually upgraded
and refined, so was the parallel development of an essential component: The
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| | Foreign Insulators
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| | by Marilyn Albers
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HERMSDORF - A GIANT AMONG EUROPEAN
PORCELAIN INSULATOR WORKS
Back in the late 1880's there was a joint stock company known as KERMISCHE
WERK KAHLA, or the KAHLA PORCELAIN WORKS, with headquarters in Hermsdorf,
Thuringen, East Germany. Its other factories were located in the towns of Gera,
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