Insulators Books

This is a must have for insulator collectors. My husband loves this book and is constantly showing it off to folks who have no clue about insulators. Many nice photos of unusual models/styles. If anyone you know collects insulators, this would make a great gift.

This book is perfect for the insulator collector. The guide contains many
high quality photos in color. The only listings missing are the CD number
designations that accompanies each photo. otherwise the description with each photo are complete, including price guide. Well-known collectors in the hobby have contributed their unique pieces to make this an informative
guide for both the beginner and advanced collector.

Great book at a great price. Full of good pictures of insulators with clear descriptions and prices. Good for the beginning collector of Insulators.

I bought this for my son who is an avid collector of insulators. He is thrilled with the book, the quality of the pictures, and the information it contains. I would recommend it for any serious collector.

When we started buying insulators we had no clue how to tell what colors were what and so on this book has great pictures and information about the insulators pictured.

If you are interested in collecting glass insulators, this book is a absolute must have.

This Price Guide is an absolute must-have for insulator collectors. The Price Guide is designed to provide an extensive listing of each of the known styles of North American pintype insulators. In sequential ascending order, each consolidated design (CD) number is listed with all confirmed embossings, colors, and market value estimates. The guide is meant to be used along with the McDougalds two-volume reference set. This price guide is the most accurate, up-to-date guide available for insulators. Each insulator is accompanied by a scale drawing to aid in identification. The guide also includes various cross reference charts to further aid in classification and market value assessment. Threaded pintype insulators, threadless insulators, commemorative insulators, battery rests, glass spools, nail knobs, guy wire strains, miniature insulators, and other miscellaneous glass are covered in extreme detail. A special insulator-embossing specific font is used to show embossing errors, symbols, and logos. Add this price guide to your bookshelf...you won't be disappointed.

This book is a must buy for all insulator collectors. It provides an up to date price reference, consolidated design guide and embossing design listing for almose all known American insulators. The book contains appendices that cross reference the insulators with their manufactures' names, style numbers, CD numbers, primary embossing and patent dates. To insure that you are getting the most bang for your buck when adding to your collection, you should refer to this book.

Good Book on principles & practices of High Voltage Engineering.

I am a student of microelectronics and this book has been very helpful to my understanding of the technology SOI MOSFETs transistors behaviors. The Colinge was very didactic in his book. I recommend.

A truly excellent summary of dielectric properties of SiO2 and nitrided oxides. The dielectric breakdown chapter is detailed, clear, and well thought-out. The references are useful and cover the literature well. Highly recommended.

Kevin A. Shaw, Ph.D.

Very easy to understand. It helps to understande material science isuue in moden VLSI technique. It may useful for both academic student or researcher in industry. It covers the most important issues about gate dielectric from the fundamentals and historical review to state-of-art gate oxide technology. It will behepful to both academic and industry researcher.

The book is very complete, with a lot of different types of electrical insulation for a lot of different applications. It covers almost everything in terms of insulation from low to high voltages. The approach gives the chemical, mechanical and electrical propreties, but it lacks on some practical approach. It is a more academic book, and contains few examples of application and tests (no photos at all). Besides that, it is a good book for developers, as could be useful for consulting different types of materials that can be used for electrical insulation applications.

A must read for all serious biomedical engineers

The latest, 2007 edition of INSULATORS: A HISTORY AND PRICE GUIDE TO NORTH AMERICAN GLASS PINTYPE INSULATORS, is widely available. For the uninitiated, "glass pintype insulators" are those little inverted-jar dinguses that adorn the cross-posts of many a North American utility pole. The "pin" (usually made of wood) attaches to the cross-post and extends up into the insulator. And the whole works keep telephone or telegraph-type "live wires" from dragging the ground and causing damage, but without posing a shock hazard to the linesmen.

While glass insulators are not nearly so commonly used as in the past, they still abound in the millions and many of us like to hunt them out--in an abandoned railway right-of-way, say, or as an item of "junktique" that winds up in many flea markets and antique stores. Perhaps even better, although these types of insulators serve a limited and residual function today, in the past they were legion. From before the civil war on up into the early 1970s, glass insulators were constantly evolving--to serve the frontier, to carry extending railway lines and telegraphy, and to carry long-distance calls on AT&T "long lines", which saw their heyday in the 1920s long before satellites, microwave towers and fiber-optics.

One storied glass firm, Hemingray (note the "R") was founded after the Civil War, churned out its BILLIONTH insulator in 1937, and lived another 30 years under different ownership. But how to distinguish an insulator that is quite literally common as glass from one that is more precious and commands a higher price? It isn't just history: rare patterns are worth more, favorite sizes are worth more, and perhaps most interestingly insulators left out in the sun for decades that turn bizarre colors like purple or "root beer" are rare and can be extremely expensive.

The McDougalds' book in earlier editions had a reputation as the "bible" for insulator collectors, and the legend continues with this new revised volume IMHO. I keep mine handy whenever I buy, sell or contemplate doing either. Forty-five dollars, I do realize, is quite a price for less than 300 pp. of line drawings, prices and spiral-binding, but it's worth it for practically all of us who have been led to (or stumbled across) this beautiful glass and the history it represents. In fact, collecting glass insulators (and often ceramic and plastic ones, too), has become over the past 30 years a full-fledged hobby with clubs, conventions, info sites and blogs, not to mention thousands of listings any day on eBay.

This book does presume a few very basic technical terms regarding insulators (many of them common to all manufactured glass). For the basic vocabulary, log onto insulatorinfo dot com; for the real lowdown on prices and values, buy INSULATORS the book. It is not likely to be discounted anytime soon, so interested or would-be collectors might as well order it thru Amazon and have it shipped for free or for cheap.

The book it's very clear and well done, the only defect it's the price to high.

A very good introductary book on SOI. But I felt that the SOI device Electrical prperties could have been dealt in greater detail. Neverthless, this book is really good for circuit designers who have just been initiated into the world of SOI.

This book provides an excellant source of information for the 'principles of operation' of modern avionics systems. Its the first of such texts that I have seen that takes the mystery out of the 'glass' environment. I highly recommend it for pilots trying to gain a better understanding of what is really going on behind the Cathode Ray Tubes and Flight Management Systems. I know of few other texts that provide such well organized information in such a concise collection of subject chapters.

It is a good avionics reference book I ever read for who are interested in exploring the basic knowledge of avaition communication and aircraft electrical systems.

I was disappointed with this book almost immediately. Having paid $ for this text, I was expecting to see some high quality work. the first thing I noticed was that instead of being a well considered text that takes the reader logically from one topic to the next (as you might expect from a "Handbook"), its really just a collection of scientific papers written by various authors in the aerospace community over time and then bound together by the "author". Second, the graphics are not only not in color, they are often low resolution.

My advice: keep shopping.