Antique Ceramic Insulators

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Antique ceramic insulators. They are made from glass porcelain or composite polymer materials nonconductive materials. Vintage glass insulators were first produced in the 1850s for telegraph lines then for telephone and power transmission lines. Ceramic insulator vintage antique medium brown color pottery type 3 5in. Insulators were originally designed to keep the wires linking telegraphs and telephones insulated from the wooden poles that held them aloft.

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Return to the national insulator association page. Make offer vintage brown ceramic stoneware locke power pole insulator made in usa 17 hemingray turquoise and clear electric insulators. In north america glass was always the predominate material for communications insulators but porcelain has become the standard for power distribution due to its greater strength and surface resistance. In conjunction with the expansion of rural electrification in the early 20th century there was a major boom in the manufacturing of.

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12 large and 5 small. Ils 38 23 6d 16h. Similar to their glass counterparts porcelain insulators date back to before the civil war for telegraph wires.