Insulators are designed to withstand electrical, mechanical, and environmental stresses. Insulators are fabricated from porcelain, glass, fiberglass, and polymers. Porcelain insulators are ...

A Temporary Monument to Henrietta Swan Leavitt,” the installation pushes the boundaries of medium and materiality to expose ...

This is particularly true of vintage glassware ... The project above uses old glass electrical insulators as the base that ...

“A lot of them are selling antique bottles ... “There are some dealers who just sell the glass insulators that used to be on the telephone poles.” There are a number of ways one can acquire ...

Topological insulators are strange stuff – the bulk of this material is insulating and cannot carry an electrical current, yet the surfaces of the same material are conducting. This means that charged ...

"Through the collaborative effort of experimental and computational research, we not only tackled a long-standing mystery by determining the detailed structure of this enigmatic insulator ...

Blacksmith anvils, glass telegraph-line insulators and all manner of vintage hammers, hatchets and tools covered table after ...

For maximum preservation, antique textiles, especially cottons and linens, should have no direct contact with wood, blue tissue, regular tissue, or other wrapping paper. Most paper tends to be acidic; ...

The rubber around this wire is an insulator. Some materials do not allow electricity to pass through them. These materials are known as electrical insulators. Make a list of all of the objects ...

Vintage electronics and capacitor replacements tend to go hand-in-hand. Why? Because electrolytic capacitors just don’t last, not the way most other components do, anyway. The metal terminal ...

Fiberglass, made from recycled glass fibers, is stronger and more durable but comes at a higher price than vinyl, although it’s still cheaper than wood. Wood doors are natural insulators ...