"Last week one of those porcelain insulators tore us up for a day."

Many of the women had to stand in cold water for eight hours at a stretch washing the porcelain insulators.

The conductor is immersed in oil inside the porcelain insulator.

The fire was so hot it melted porcelain insulators, and aluminum racks.

Looking down, he saw a porcelain insulator and a length of radio aerial dangling from his foot.

This factory produced porcelain insulators for the electricity industry and had historically run a small design studio.

Second, the radio tower is probably the only observation tower in the world standing on porcelain insulators.

Pitt also spotted a small porcelain insulator and realized the chain links were wired for electricity.

This system was recognizable by the large porcelain insulator separating the lamp and reflector from the mounting arm.

These have rubber seals not only for the HT lead, but also the plug's porcelain insulator to keep water out.

Polyethylene insulators replacing porcelain insulators, beginning in the 1960s.

Most porcelain insulators require that the wire be threaded through a hole in the insulator rather than locked into place by a removable pin.

A spark plug has a metal threaded shell, electrically isolated from a central electrode by a porcelain insulator.

Porcelain insulators may have a semi-conductive glaze finish, so that a small current (a few milliamperes) passes through the insulator.

In 1872, its porcelain insulators were used in the celebrated overland telegraph line between Darwin and Adelaide.

ECMEI, which makes electrical porcelain insulators, says it has a 100 percent market share in Egypt.

Throughout the subway system, porcelain insulators are mounted at various intervals beneath the third rail, and a wooden protective board runs along and above the rail.

Porcelain insulators are made from clay, quartz or alumina and feldspar, and are covered with a smooth glaze to shed water.

He refined his technical skills at the Australian Porcelain Insulator Works at Yarraville between 1912 and 1914.

Kanthal or Nichrome wire is generally used for both ignitors and flame electrodes with high alumina or porcelain insulators.

Historically the first section was often an aerial open-wire line, with several conductors attached to porcelain insulators on cross-arms on "telegraph" poles.

Mr. Steets said that the fire was probably caused by a worn-out bushing - a type of porcelain insulator - located on top of the transformer.

Both electrode lines consist of two 908 mm2 Falcon conductors, mounted on ANSI Class 52-5 porcelain insulators.

Typically, wooden or metal posts are driven into the ground and plastic or porcelain insulators are attached to them, or plastic posts are used.