Stanley, we were told, had amassed an enormous collection of glass telegraph insulators, which he had mounted on poles and fences throughout his yard. Not surprisingly, the property had come to be ...

Some of the wire was removed. The poles were largely left where they fell. The glass insulators sat in the grass or rolled slowly downhill. "I used to go fishing in Portage," Warren said ...

Bill Burger remembers the day he fell in love with glass insulators. It was in the late ... was that it had something to do with telephone poles.” The next day, Burger and his mom noticed ...

what exactly is an insulator? The tiny glass sculptures were essentially the first electrical accessories, used as a way to keep telegraph wires separate from the often wet, damp poles from which ...

There is also the simple fact that glass, particularly the colors when reflecting light, can be absolutely beautiful. On April 7, the Yankee Pole Cat Insulator Club held its annual spring show ...

Pole-top fires pose significant challenges ... "Our innovation could serve as a protective coating or paint for ceramic and glass insulators, providing extra defence against environmental factors ...

The rise of electricity brought a new use to the poles. Outfitted with insulators, the poles could carry electricity from generating stations to individual homes and businesses. Today these ...

Faced with a shortage of ceramic insulators, linesman from the sub-station pass the power transmission cable through the plastic bottles and tie it to a metal cross-bar on the electricity pole.