Glass Insulators were first commercially produced in the 1850s for use with batteries, telegraph lines and lightning rod systems. As telegraph, telephone, fire alarm, railroad signal, high voltage transmission and radio antenna system technologies develop...
This page was last updated on July 8th, 2008
This page was last updated on July 8th, 2008
Insulators (from Collecting)
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Hungarian Insulators
Site of a Hungarian collector; includes many photos and drawings of insulators in use in Hungary.
Collecting Insulators
Information on the hobby of collecting insulators and related collectibles. Contents include pictures of insulators, history of companies, patents, where to find insulators, manufacturing details, insulator terminology, books on the subject, and backgrou
Canadian Railway Telegraph Insulators
Pictures insulators used along Canadian railways and telegraph/telephone lines in the 19th and early 20th centuries. There are related links and an email contact as well.
Buzz Cashion's Insulator Site
Collector shares hobby of various types of insulators through pictures, and descriptions.
Ross Baird's Insulator Collection
A Texas collector of unusual color glass insulators.
Insulator Collecting in South-Western Ontario
Insulator collecting photos and descriptions by a youth living in Ontario Canada.
Crown Jewels of the Wire Magazine
Magazine dedicated to the collectors of historic glass and porcelain insulators used by telegraph, telephone and electric power utilities. Includes value finder and subscription information.
Otter's Insulator Page
This collector's site combines pictures with a narrative including: What I Collect, Other Hobby Interests, Guestbook, hobby links and an email contact.
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
This page features the Brooks ramshorn insulator and its associated patent information.
Rainbow Riders Trading Post
Photos of displays and shows, a few articles, and information about the out-of-print magazine.
MyInsulators.com
Provides space at no charge for insulator and go-with collectors to maintain a site. Also a directory of member sites.
Glass Insulators and the Mud Club
This graphics rich insulator site features thumbnail pictures of both glass and porcelain insulators.
Spencer Grueninger's Ohio Lightning Rod Insulators
Lightning Rod Insulator (LRI) collector's site with items for sale or trade.
SignalSpark insulator book
SignalSpark is a high quality book celebrating the insulator as an icon of industrial design.
Sluggo's Insulator Collecting
This personal insulator collecting homepage features Australian and other non-United States-produced glass. Lots of reference information, photos and an 'Insulator of the Month' page.
The Dripped Signal
This site is dedicated to those collectors who inspired by history, stimulated with color and shape, developed this wonderful hobby of insulator collecting. It includes pages for 'Teats On The Petticoat', 'The 1893 Drip Point Patent', 'A fantastic! Gradua
Rod's Classic & Antique Antenna Insulators
Collector's site with photos of "go-withs" from old-time radio antenna systems, including 'strain' insulators, lightning arresters, lead-in standoffs, and other related hardware.
Exact Insulator Markings
Built for collectors, by collectors. The purpose of this site is to collect, list, and share at one source the exact markings on any collectible insulator.
Glass Insulators Reference Site
Insulator collector's resource with information on glass and porcelain insulators, a show calendar, glossary, tips, photos of rare items, and more.
Coble's Eclectica: The Insulator Zone
A narrative style insulator collector's site including a want list, pictures, and links to related sites.
Glass Threaded Insulator Nicknames
Lists the nicknames used for different styles of insulators, with photos of many.
Steve Blair's Website
Photos of Lynchburg collection, strains and arrestors, the London/Springfield traveling show, and more.
Insulator Defined
The MacMillan Encyclopedia of Physics definition of an insulator.
Insulator Collector's Picture Forum
A photograph gallery where insulator collector's can post their insulator pictures by sending them to The Insulator Webmaster - Bill Meier.
The Wayback Times - Threadless Insulators
Collector's site
Lisa's Collecting Glass Insulators
This page tells a short story about one collector's interest in the hobby.
Clint's Place
Clint's page is dedicated to collecting porcelain signal-type insulators. 34 manufacturers displayed with hundreds of great porcelain signal pictures.
National Insulator Association
This site provides detailed information about the National Insulator Association. Photographs related to collecting glass and porcelain insulators and significant historical data are also available.
Insulator News & Market Report
Here is a commercial advertising a high-end, industry specific journal that serves the commercial electrical market as a source of information on international developments in power transmission and distribution.
Insulators from Australia
Collector's site, which includes history of Australian-made insulators.
Canadian Insulator Collector's Page
A tour of our insulator collection in southern Ontario, Canada. Contact information provided for help with insulator identification and information, and for those interested in buying, selling, or trading glass insulators with a Canadian collector.
A Brief History of Insulators
The California Drum Barracks provides history of 'Confederate Egg' insulators used in the Civil War.
Corning Pyrex Insulators On Parade
This site contains pictures of Corning Pyrex insulators still in use.
Brian's Glass Insulator Page
Shares pictures and descriptions of favorite pieces in glass insulator collection including many Heminggray, with related links.
Insulator and Telegraph Information
Assortment of insulator, telegraph, telegram, mining and vintage document information and graphics. Also, insulator identification drawings and a listing of telegraph company names, and scanned telegrams. Extensive want list and trade item list.
Insulator Collectors On the Net Webring
Group of insulator enthusiasts who have linked sites together to allows visitors and ring members easy navigation.
Bill Winters's Insulator Page
This site combines photos with a narrative which includes insulator interests, favorite insulators, personal background, and links.
Electrical Insulators: The Vista Historical Museum
A brief written historical description of antique telephone insulators with photographs
Craig's Insulator Picture Page
This site features a collector's insulators presented through graphic links to photographs with captions.
The Old Times: Inside insulators
Feature article about an insulator collector.
Jim and Terry Wright's Webshots
This virtual photo album includes colorful pictures of insulators and various other collectibles.
Collectible Glass Insulators
Virtual photo album of Columbian Zicme insulators. [Registration required to view the images.]
M. Grimek's Insulator List
Three pages of photos of colorful insulators previously offered for sale.
Porcelain Insulators
Collector, research expert, historian's site
Charles Robinson's Collection
Extensive collection of insulators, focusing on porcelain; includes 'in action' photos from states across the US.
Charles Bibb's Insulator Photo Album
This hobby enthusiast's site pictures insulator related events, and insulators from Mississippi and in his collection.
Insulators: The Hidden Obsession
Pictures, show reports, and collecting stories.
Insulators Canada - Where Collectors Come to Meet
A family-oriented web-based forum dedicated to all aspects of the insulator collecting hobby. Includes an 'Insulator of the Week' section.
Insulator Magic
This collector's site combines graphics, pictures and narrative style text to present the insulator collecting hobby from a unique point of view.
Threadless in Alexandria, VA
Collector's photograph
Hemingray.info
Features the 'Hemingray Database' with details on this manufacturer's insulator production, photos of shows and displays, 'Laugh Lines' comics, and trip journals.
Justin's Insulators
Collection photos, Lynchburg history, and suggestions on cleaning, cataloging, and displaying.
Natsulators
Insulator collecting site including photo album, complete collection index, how to get started, links, and insulator embossings of North America.
Insulator Gurls at Large
Follow the odyssey of two Canadian insulator collectors, who refuse to take themselves seriously.
Teleramics - UK Railway Telegraph Insulators
Detailed information and photographs on styles, materials, colours used for railway telegraph insulators from the UK. Sections on designers, markings and manufacturers of these products. Sub sections include railway crockery, insulator fixings, telegraph
Glass and Glass-Making in Canada - Industrial Glass
This page is part of an historic reference site dealing, in part, with Canadian glass works. Pictured here is a lightning rod insulator bearing the "Hickock's Patent 1859", USA.
Peninsulators
Glass Insulators, Prism Glass, and related history.
Site of a Hungarian collector; includes many photos and drawings of insulators in use in Hungary.
Information on the hobby of collecting insulators and related collectibles. Contents include pictures of insulators, history of companies, patents, where to find insulators, manufacturing details, insulator terminology, books on the subject, and backgrou
Pictures insulators used along Canadian railways and telegraph/telephone lines in the 19th and early 20th centuries. There are related links and an email contact as well.
Collector shares hobby of various types of insulators through pictures, and descriptions.
A Texas collector of unusual color glass insulators.
Insulator collecting photos and descriptions by a youth living in Ontario Canada.
Magazine dedicated to the collectors of historic glass and porcelain insulators used by telegraph, telephone and electric power utilities. Includes value finder and subscription information.
This collector's site combines pictures with a narrative including: What I Collect, Other Hobby Interests, Guestbook, hobby links and an email contact.
This page features the Brooks ramshorn insulator and its associated patent information.
Photos of displays and shows, a few articles, and information about the out-of-print magazine.
Provides space at no charge for insulator and go-with collectors to maintain a site. Also a directory of member sites.
This graphics rich insulator site features thumbnail pictures of both glass and porcelain insulators.
Lightning Rod Insulator (LRI) collector's site with items for sale or trade.
SignalSpark is a high quality book celebrating the insulator as an icon of industrial design.
This personal insulator collecting homepage features Australian and other non-United States-produced glass. Lots of reference information, photos and an 'Insulator of the Month' page.
This site is dedicated to those collectors who inspired by history, stimulated with color and shape, developed this wonderful hobby of insulator collecting. It includes pages for 'Teats On The Petticoat', 'The 1893 Drip Point Patent', 'A fantastic! Gradua
Collector's site with photos of "go-withs" from old-time radio antenna systems, including 'strain' insulators, lightning arresters, lead-in standoffs, and other related hardware.
Built for collectors, by collectors. The purpose of this site is to collect, list, and share at one source the exact markings on any collectible insulator.
Insulator collector's resource with information on glass and porcelain insulators, a show calendar, glossary, tips, photos of rare items, and more.
A narrative style insulator collector's site including a want list, pictures, and links to related sites.
Lists the nicknames used for different styles of insulators, with photos of many.
Photos of Lynchburg collection, strains and arrestors, the London/Springfield traveling show, and more.
The MacMillan Encyclopedia of Physics definition of an insulator.
Insulator Collector's Picture ForumA photograph gallery where insulator collector's can post their insulator pictures by sending them to The Insulator Webmaster - Bill Meier.
Collector's site
This page tells a short story about one collector's interest in the hobby.
Clint's page is dedicated to collecting porcelain signal-type insulators. 34 manufacturers displayed with hundreds of great porcelain signal pictures.
This site provides detailed information about the National Insulator Association. Photographs related to collecting glass and porcelain insulators and significant historical data are also available.
Here is a commercial advertising a high-end, industry specific journal that serves the commercial electrical market as a source of information on international developments in power transmission and distribution.
Collector's site, which includes history of Australian-made insulators.
A tour of our insulator collection in southern Ontario, Canada. Contact information provided for help with insulator identification and information, and for those interested in buying, selling, or trading glass insulators with a Canadian collector.
The California Drum Barracks provides history of 'Confederate Egg' insulators used in the Civil War.
This site contains pictures of Corning Pyrex insulators still in use.
Shares pictures and descriptions of favorite pieces in glass insulator collection including many Heminggray, with related links.
Assortment of insulator, telegraph, telegram, mining and vintage document information and graphics. Also, insulator identification drawings and a listing of telegraph company names, and scanned telegrams. Extensive want list and trade item list.
Group of insulator enthusiasts who have linked sites together to allows visitors and ring members easy navigation.
This site combines photos with a narrative which includes insulator interests, favorite insulators, personal background, and links.
A brief written historical description of antique telephone insulators with photographs
This site features a collector's insulators presented through graphic links to photographs with captions.
Feature article about an insulator collector.
This virtual photo album includes colorful pictures of insulators and various other collectibles.
Virtual photo album of Columbian Zicme insulators. [Registration required to view the images.]
Three pages of photos of colorful insulators previously offered for sale.
Collector, research expert, historian's site
Extensive collection of insulators, focusing on porcelain; includes 'in action' photos from states across the US.
This hobby enthusiast's site pictures insulator related events, and insulators from Mississippi and in his collection.
Pictures, show reports, and collecting stories.
A family-oriented web-based forum dedicated to all aspects of the insulator collecting hobby. Includes an 'Insulator of the Week' section.
This collector's site combines graphics, pictures and narrative style text to present the insulator collecting hobby from a unique point of view.
Collector's photograph
Features the 'Hemingray Database' with details on this manufacturer's insulator production, photos of shows and displays, 'Laugh Lines' comics, and trip journals.
Collection photos, Lynchburg history, and suggestions on cleaning, cataloging, and displaying.
Insulator collecting site including photo album, complete collection index, how to get started, links, and insulator embossings of North America.
Follow the odyssey of two Canadian insulator collectors, who refuse to take themselves seriously.
Detailed information and photographs on styles, materials, colours used for railway telegraph insulators from the UK. Sections on designers, markings and manufacturers of these products. Sub sections include railway crockery, insulator fixings, telegraph
This page is part of an historic reference site dealing, in part, with Canadian glass works. Pictured here is a lightning rod insulator bearing the "Hickock's Patent 1859", USA.
Glass Insulators, Prism Glass, and related history.
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