| | Patent Office
| | | by Dick Bowman
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W. E. SIMONDS’ Telegraph Insulator
The insulator model of a telegraph insulator patented November 26, 1867 by
W.E. Simonds, along with the papers, were acquired by me late this past spring
in New England after having seen the model earlier in the year near Buffalo, New
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| | | Raiders Of The Lost Pony
| | | by Dennis Hackthorne
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Raiders Of The Lost Pony
or “IN SEARCH OF THE NO-NAME CALIFORNIA PONY”
If you have collected insulators for any length of time, you have chased the
wild goose. Stories like, “A working E.C.& M. on every pole”, or “I
have a box full of purple insulators in storage”. If you are like me, you are
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| | | Foreign Insulators
| | | by Marilyn Albers
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NEW FINDS
Yup, you guessed it. Bernie Warren made a return trip to France shortly
before the National Show in Long Beach, California, the weekend of July 19-20
and came home with six new FOLEMBRAY styles, plus several embossing and color
variations of existing CD’s made by other French manufacturers. He cleaned
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| | | Georgia Rural Telegraph Museum
| | | by Ken Musson
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LESLIE, Ga. — From the days of communication instruments which were little
more than tin cans linked by a taut string to today’s telephones using Telstar
space satellites, the history of telephones is displayed in a recently-opened
museum in a tiny south Georgia town.
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