Insulator Book List
I have been acquiring a few old insulator books as my interest in collecting has been rekindled. The Schroeder book "800 Insulators" was the first insulator book I bought many years ago and it was my bible for years of collecting. It is filled with crude line drawings, and vague descriptions of embossings and includes glass, porcelain and other types of insulators. It was written before the CD number system was developed and accepted by collectors everywhere.
I enjoy looking through the old books as many of them are filled with patent and historical information on insulators. The prices in the old books can be very entertaining as well. The two modern price guides are invaluable in helping to determine the value of the many insulators I'm bidding for on eBay.
I am also slowly building up a library of back issues of "Crown Jewels of the Wire" magazine, as I find them. I also have a few issues of the old "Canadian Bottle and Stoneware Collector" magazine that had a regular column on insulators. I have put together a list of magazines that I have so far. I have a few duplicate issues of Crown Jewels that are for sale on the Insulators for Sale page.
Insulator Books
- Albers, Marilyn
- Glass Insulators From Outside North America, First Edition (1981)
- Glass Insulators From Outside North America, Additional Pages (1982)
- Albers, Marilyn & Woodward, N.R.
- Glass Insulators From Outside North America, Second Revision (1993)
- Price Guide for Glass Insulators From Outside North America (1996)
- Alexander, Bob
- The Story of Insulators (1975, 1981)
- The Standard Color Guide for Insulators (1976?)
- A Color Guide for Insulators (CD-ROM, 2003)
- "Bea" Hyve, H.G.
- The Hemingray Glass Co. A Most Colorful History (1998)
- Brown, Gerald
- The Story of Gerald & Esta Brown's Insulator Collecting (1979)
- Unique Collectible Insulators - Non-Glass, Non-Porcelain or Wooden, Rubber, Composition, Metal (1975)
- Unique Collectible Insulators - Added Pages (1981)
- Bruner, Mike
- The Definitive Guide to Colorful Insulators (1999)
- Cranfill, Gary & Kareofelas, Greg
- The Collectors Guide for Glass Insulators - Book One: Revised (1969)
- The Collectors Guide for Glass Insulators Price Sheet (March, 1970)
- The Collectors Guide for Glass Insulators - Book Two (1970)
- The Collectors Guide for Glass Insulators Price Sheet (June, 1970)
- The Glass Insulator: A Comprehensive Reference (1973)
- The Glass Insulator: A Comprehensive Reference Price Sheet (1973)
- Cranfill, Gary & Kareofetas, Greg & Fountain, John
- Dictionary of Glass - Ceramic Insulators Reprint (1969)
- Delling, David & Karityn
- Before Threads (1971)
- Dombrowski, James & Alexander, Bob
- A Collector's Guide for Radio Antenna Insulators (CD-ROM, 2004)
- Ellis, Norman
- Insulator with Current Prices (Third Edition, 1970)
- Hill, James & Pickett, Edward
- An Insulator Book For Collectors: Sketches and Prices (1968)
- An Insulator Book For the Advanced Collector: The Rare & Unique (1970)
- Lauckner, Mark
- Canadian Railway Communications Insulators 1880-1920 (1995)
- McDougald, John & Carol
- Insulators: A History and Guide to North American Pintype Insulators (2 volumes - 1990)
- Price Guide for North American Glass Pintype Insulators (2007)
- Price Guide for North American Glass Pintype Insulators (2003)
- Price Guide for North American Glass Pintype Insulators (1999)
- McIntosh, Colin
- Canadian Insulators and Communication Lines (late 1960s or early 1970s)
- Meier, Bill
- North American Insulator Price Guide (Browser Edition, 2007)
- North American Insulator Price Guide (Browser Edition, 2004)
- Milholland, Marion
- Brookfield 1912 Insulator Catalogue Reprint (Brown Cover w/ Black Printing)
- Most About Glass Insulators, Bicentennial Revision (Pink Cover - 1976)
- Suggested Insulator Price List and Index for Book #2 (Sept. 1970)
- Padgett, Fred
- Dreams of Glass - The Story of William McLaughlin and His Glass Company (1996)
- Padgett, Fred & Ruedrich, Walter P.
- Wood Amongst the Wires - The Temporary Solution (2000)
- Schroeder
- 800 Insulators Priced and Illustrated (1971)
- Saccoman, Frank
- Insulators, Just Insulators (1967)
- Soller, Rick
- 80 Interesting Insulator Information Items About "800 Insulators Priced and Illustrated" (2007)
- Stuart, Lynn R.
- Stuart's Insulator Guide, Revised (1969)
- Terrill, Francis M.
- Rare Insulators With Prices (1970)
- Scarce Insulators Priced (1970)
- Hemingray Insulators Priced (1971)
- Choice Insulators Priced (1972)
- Terrill, Francis M. & & Olson, Warren
- Insulators with Embossing Errors (1971)
- Tibbitts, John C.
- A Guide For Insulator Collectors (1967)
- A Guide For Insulator Collectors, 2nd Edition (1968)
- A Guide For Insulator Collectors, 3rd Edition (1969)
- Tod, Jack H.
- Porcelain Insulators: Guide Book For Collectors, Second Edition (1976)
- Porcelain Insulators: Guide Book For Collectors, Supplement A (Oct. 1972)
- Woodward, N.R.
- The Glass Insulator in America 1969 Report (1970)
- The Glass Insulator in America 1988 Report (1988)
Interesting Go-With Books
- Coe, Lewis
- The Telegraph - A History of Morse's Invention and Its Predecessors in the U.S. (1993)
- The Telephone and Its Several Inventors (1995)
- Kurtz, Edwin B. (E.E., Ph.D.)
- The Lineman's and Cableman's Handbook (Fourth Edition, 1964)
- Cookson, Gillian
- The Cable - The Wire That Changed the World (2003)
- Moyal, Ann
- Clear Across Australia - A History of Telecommunications (1985)
- Thomson, Alice
- The Singing Line - Tracking the Australian Adventures of My Intrepid Ancestors (1999)
- Mussio, Laurence B.
- Becoming Bell - The Remarkable Story of a Canadian Enterprise, Bell Canada (2005)
- Standage, Tom
- The Victorian Internet - The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the 19th Century's Online Pioneers (1998)
- Steele Gordon, John
- A Thread Across the Ocean - The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable (2002)
- How to Build Rural Telephone Lines, Northern Electric & Mfg. Co. Ltd., Canada (1910)
- Rural Telephone Lines - How to Build Them, Dodge City, KS (1970, Reprint of c.1900 Montgomery Ward & Co. book)
- Use and Care of Pole Climbing Equipment - A Field Manual, Edison Electric Institute, New York, NY (1947)
- T-8 Telephones and Supplies Catalog, Northern Electric Company, Canada (1954)
- How Glass Bottles are Made, Whitall Tatum Company, New York (1935)
Old Electrical Books
- Hawkins Electrical Guide, New York, NY (Second Edition, 1922)
- #1 - Electricity, Magnetism, Induction, Experiments, Dynamos, Armature Windings
- #2 - Dynamo Motors, Instruments, Testing
- #3 - Wiring and Distribution Systems, Storage Batteries
- #4 - Alternating Currents, Alternators
- #5 - A.C. Motors, Transformers, Converters, Rectifiers
- #6 - A.C. Switch Boards, Circuit Breakers, Measuring Instruments
- #7 - A.C. Wiring, Power Stations, Telephone Work
- #8 - Telegraph, Wireless, Bells, Lighting
- #9 - Railways, Motion Pictures, Automobiles, Ignition
- #10 - Modern Applications of Electricity, Reference Index
- International Textbook Company, Scranton, PA
- Line Transmission Calculations, (1930)
- International Library of Technology, (1921)
- Overhead Systems Reference Book, National Electric Light Association, New York, NY (1927)
- Pansini, Anthony J.
- Basic Electrical Power Distribution Vol. 1 (Revised Second Edition, 1971)
- Practical Electricity, Cleveland Armature Works, Cleveland, OH (Sixth Edition, 1911)
