Research Articles and Stories

Featured Articles:
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Research Articles:

• CD 731 Compromise Insulator
• Extract from a letter from the Brookfield Glass Company
• Springfield Research Report - CD 131.4 & CD 127.4
• Brookfield CD 145 and CREB study - reprinted from Crown Jewels of the Wire and used with permission.
• CD 147 -- The Groovy insulator
• Cochrane Bell Suspensions
• CREB CD 145 Beehives
• The Ridge Telephone Company and the CD 130.1 Cal. Elec. Works Insulator
• The Ohio Valley Glass Company
• ELMER - And It's Legacy of Glass
• The Evolution of High Tension Power Distribution
• "Star Tracks" - a detailed article about the history and insulators marked with a star
• CD 136 Brookfield study
• History and Usage of CD 267 and CD 267.5
• A discussion of U-981 "Elliott" Insulator
• An Insulator Collector's Worst Nightmare
• A History of the Star Insulators
• Span Wire Insulators
• Johnny Ball/Span Wire Insulator Study
• Quick Reference to Fake and Suspect EC&M Insulators
• Characteristics of Circuit Facilities from a 1961 handbook.
• CD 128 Pyrex mold code listing
• The Fluid Insulator as featured in the The Electrical Supply Company Catalog of 1892
• A History of New England Insulators
• CD 147 Spiral Groove Variations
• West Kootenay Power Archive Photos
• Kissin Cousins - A History of Insulator and Fruit Jar Manufacturers
• The Dominion Glass Company
• Fake & Altered Insulators - Artificially Induced Colors at the National Insulator Association web site
• History of the Boston Fire Alarm Telegraph System
• Early and Unusual Telegraph Insulators 
• The Greatest Insulator Find in the History of the Hobby
• Wade Type Telegraph Insulators from Jackson County
• A visit to the AT&T Archives
• A New HEMINGRAY-42 style
• The Beaver Falls Glass Company; Early Threaded Telegraph Insulators
• Insulators that are Unique to The Southern United States
• Hemingray Glass Insulators - 100 Years Of History
• The Western Union Telegraph Company Collection 1848-1963
• Ezra Cornell found at Cornell University Library's web site.

Hunting for Insulators:

• The Transcontinental Transgression
• The fantastic CD 245.2 find
• Rock Island Railroad Finds
• An Insulator Collector's Worst Nightmare
• Wild Canadian Ponies
• Stalking the Wily and Elusive Insulator in it's Native Habitat
• The Quest for National Corkscrews CD 110.5
• Hunting for Boch U-928s! (Part 1) and (Part 2)
• The Yellow U-503 Cache
• Adventures at Christmas .. in Germany!

General Articles:

• Installing Chair Leg Insulators
• What Beatles? This Teen-Ager has eyes for insulators only
• Stay Away From Those Tracks!
• Pole Climbing Safety and Tips
• What’s Wrong With The Real Thing
• A Visit to an Insulator Pin Manufacturer
  • Full article with smaller photographs
  • "Slide Show" with less descriptions

Insulator Stories and Poems:

• Emeralds in the Sky
• Two Days After Christmas
• "A Tribute to the Lineman" A poem and a cartoon of Reddy Kilowatt.
• Ode to the 128
• A public service announcement from the Polyinsulitis Foundation of America
• Dreams of CD 145 Dome Embossed Brookfields
• Ode of a Beginner
• The Dream
• An Insulator's Lament
• Electrical Substation No. 2
• The Honey Pot - A Lesson in Creativity & Diversity An interesting true story about Pacific Power and Light linesman in the Pacific Northwest