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February 24, 1996 to June 30, 1996

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June 30, 1996

• Dreams of Glass gets a cover photograph!
• SPEC-TRU - Transparent Glass Color Reference; great for a color reference for insulators and bottles, and LRI's too!
• ICON passes the 200 member mark!

June 27, 1996

• Crown Jewels of the Wire Photographs for July 1996
• Updated Insulator Shows listings
• Read about the answer to the strange "what's it"?

June 23, 1996

• A new book Dreams of Glass - The Story of William McLaughlin and his Glass Company is available. A great reference on McLaughlin insulators and other glassware and history.
• Can you identify this strange "what's it"?
• 6 new glass photographs added including a one of kind Rams Head and ultra rare Hemingray Type 1
• CB? GB? PB? Confused? Take a look at our updated glossary abbreviations
• Viking Helmet? The glossary has more references to photographs for the insulator nicknames.

June 16, 1996

• Still need a hotel room for the National? Read this important update!
• Like what you see on these Web pages? Tell a friend about ICON! Let's top 200 people by the National!

June 10, 1996

• 3 new glass photographs added
• Photographs of a number of commemorative, miniature, and salesman samples have been added
• Insulators for Sale and Trade updated

June 4, 1996

• Going to the National? Read this important update!
• The complete NIA Membership Handbook is available.
• Noted collector, author, researcher, and NIA Lifetime Member Elton Gish is online, and offers his Insulator Research Service to everyone.
• Several new people have come online. Look at the additions to the Internet E-Mail Contacts and the Insulator Personal Page for updates.
• The Internet E-Mail Contacts now includes book authors who are on the internet. Take a look and see who is out there!
• A message panel on the home page will now point out interesting or new sections that are available. You can click on this message to go to that section. If you have a Java enabled browser, the panel will display various messages.

May 28, 1996

• Insulators for Sale and Trade section added!
• June's Insulators and Computers column from Crown Jewels of the Wire featuring "Cataloging and Labeling Your Insulators"
• Crown Jewels of the Wire Photographs for June 1996
• Over 75 "Insulator Nicknames" added to the Glossary; many with links to associated photographs.
• 3 new glass photographs added
• The reference book Canadian Railway Telegraph History is shipping!
• Updated Internet E-Mail Contacts as the NIA Ethics Chairman comes online!

May 14, 1996

• Some neat photographs of some lightning rod insulators provided by Jim Colburn
• 6 new glass photographs added
• A quick index by letter has been added to the glossary of insulator terms

May 5, 1996

• Updated Insulator Shows listings
• Crown Jewels of the Wire Photographs for May 1996
• A photograph of a very rare Brookfield fruit jar
• Another dozen words added to the glossary of insulator terms
• Finally, EIC has given me a club patch! (Thanks Tom!)

April 29, 1996

• Several new Insulator Personal Pages added.
• Dimensions added to most porcelain insulator photographs.

April 21, 1996

• The start of a section on Insulator Anatomy.
• The start of a glossary of insulator terms.
• 15 new photographs in the Porcelain Photo Album.
• Books, Periodicals and Web sites of interest to the Telegraph Key Collector and Historian

April 15, 1996

• The Greatest Insulator Find in the History of the Hobby - Read the article and view the photographs, and I think you will agree! I expect to add more history about the pieces in a few weeks.
• A photograph of a rare CD 328.2 in Carnival.
• The answer to Crown Jewels of the Wire April 1996 photograph contest.

April 7, 1996

• An adventure about The Quest for National Corkscrews CD 110.5 has been added to the Research Articles and Stories page. Be sure to read the end of the article!
• Actual dimensions (width x height) have been added to all photographs of threaded American Insulators.

March 24, 1996

• April's Insulators and Computers column from Crown Jewels of the Wire.
• Crown Jewels of the Wire Photographs for April 1996 which includes a special contest!!
• Complete information about Packing and Shipping Insulators from someone who has shipped over 5,000 insulators!
• A couple of neat photographs of some unusual water bottles including a pint, and two amber ones!
• Updated Fruit Jar page, and a new list of Fruit Jar Reference Books has been added.

Site switched to www.insulators.com

March 10, 1996

• Clickable map to view shows in your area
• 3 new glass photographs added
• Porcelain updates:
  • 17 new photographs
  • Updated porcelain markings section

March 1, 1996

• A fantastic story of a find of Wade Type Telegraph Insulators from Jackson County.
• Crown Jewels of the Wire Photographs for March 1996
• 3 new glass photographs added

February 24, 1996

• The biggest change is that our URL is now http://www.insulators.com but since you got here, you probably already know that! But, please make a note of the change. We are on a new web server, at Best.com. Note however that the insulator mailing list is still insulators@resilience.com.
• An 'unsubscribe' option and a 'send to the mailing list' option have been added to the Internet Mailing List page.
• Updated Insulator Shows listings.

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