cool Hemingray glass house ad from 1853

[AntiqueMeds]

http://antiquemedicines.com/blog/?p=1028

Interesting ad I saw showing the glass house at work.
Something the insulator people may have seen before. I didnt know they used to be called telegraph glasses.

 

[BillinMo]

Yep, we've seen it before. [] It's a very cool ad, though, and some great advertising artwork. The same illustration also appears in other Hemingray ads around that timeframe with slightly different text. I think showing the interior of the factory was a very unusual move for the 1850s.

There are some differing opinions on whether "telegraph glasses" means pin type insulators (definitely threadless at this time period) or some other style, perhaps glass blocks or glass "ram's horn" inserts. Could be some other type of telegraph equipment like battery jars, or maybe even a catchall phrase meaning any sort of glass used in telegraph operation.

 

[AntiqueMeds]

"telegraph glasses"

Seems like it could mean battery jars....not sure.
The fact that they used the term lightning rod "insulators" would imply they would also call items telegraph 'insulators'
Obviously they did make telegraph insulators at some point.

 

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"telegraph glasses"

Seems like it could mean battery jars....not sure.

Insulators for sure, not battery jars...

 

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