Old Glass Electric Line Insulators

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Old glass electric line insulators.

Shop for and learn about vintage glass insulators. Free shipping on many items. Free shipping on many items. As technology developed insulators were needed for telephone lines electric power lines and other applications.

Make offer lot of 8 antique vintage insulators glass clear blue green hemingray beautiful. The earliest insulators were non threaded ram s horn and glass block designs developed simultaneously for the growing network of telegraph lines in the united states. In 1850 companies such as hemingray bookfield and whitall tatum started producing glass insulators for telegraph lines telephone and power transmission lines later on. Hemingray 9 clear glass insulator 45 47 vintage antique telephone line 003.

Insulators were originally designed to keep the wires linking telegraphs and telephones insulated from. Antique glass electric insulators lot of 5. In the mid 1960 s a few people began collecting these glass and porcelain insulators. Their sole purpose was to insulate the wire from the wood reason for which materials such as glass porcelain or composite polymer materials had been chosen.

Vintage insulators are most commonly made out of porcelain or glass materials and they come in a wide variety of colors and shapes making each item a unique. Make offer great light electric blue cd 162 h g co signal style. Ending thursday at 1 49pm pdt 4d 12h. Glass insulators were first produced in the 1850 s for use with telegraph lines.

They insulated and protected the wooden poles from the electricity coursing through the wires. 32 great light electric blue cd 162 h g co signal style glass insulator 27 308 75 11 00 shipping. They are made from glass porcelain or composite polymer materials nonconductive materials. 1 16 of 216 results for antique glass insulators 3drose ht 155955 2 blue glass electric insulator iron on heat transfer for white material 6 by 6 inch 2 6 out of 5 stars 5.

Insulators were first developed in the mid 1800s to be used on telegraph and telephone lines to contain the electrical current and prevent the current from entering the ground below. Today there are over 2000 collectors and insulator clubs national shows and good reference books are available.