Template:Short description {{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}}Template:Template otherTemplate:Main other{{#invoke:Check for clobbered parameters|check|nested=1|template=Infobox company|cat=Template:Main other|name; company_name|logo; company_logo|logo_alt; alt|trade_name; trading_name|former_names; former_name|type; company_type|predecessors; predecessor|successors; successor|foundation; founded|founders; founder|defunct; dissolved|hq_location; location|hq_location_city; location_city|hq_location_country; location_country|num_locations; locations|areas_served; area_served|net_income; profit|net_income_year; profit_year|owners; owner |homepage; website }}{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:Infobox company with unknown parameter "_VALUE_" | ignoreblank=y | alt | area_served | areas_served | assets | assets_year | aum | brands | company_logo | company_name | company_type | defunct | dissolved | divisions | embed | equity | equity_year | fate | footnotes | former_name | former_names | foundation | founded | founder | founders | genre | homepage | hq_location | hq_location_city | hq_location_country | incorporated | image | image_alt | image_caption | image_size | image_upright | income_year | industry | ISIN | key_people | location | location_city | location_country | locations | logo | logo_alt | logo_caption | logo_class | logo_size | logo_upright | members | members_year | module | name | native_name | native_name_lang | net_income | net_income_year | num_employees | num_employees_year | num_locations | num_locations_year | operating_income | owner | owners | parent | predecessor | predecessors | production | production_year | products | profit | profit_year | rating | ratio | revenue | revenue_year | romanized_name | services | subsid | successor | successors | traded_as | trade_name | trading_name | type | website| qid | fetchwikidata | suppressfields | noicon | nocat | demo | categories }} The Hemingray Glass Company was an American glass manufacturing company founded by Robert Hemingray and Ralph Gray in Cincinnati in 1848. In its early years, the company went through numerous and frequent name changes, including Gray & Hemingray; Gray, Hemingray & Bros.; Gray, Hemingray & Brother; Hemingray Bros. & Company; and R. Hemingray & Company before incorporating into the Hemingray Glass Company, Inc. in 1870. The Hemingray Glass Company had factories in Cincinnati and Covington, Kentucky with main production in Muncie, Indiana. Although Hemingray was best known for its telegraph insulators, the company produced many other glass items including bottles, fruit jars, pressed glass dishes, tumblers, battery jars, fishbowls, lantern globes, and oil lamps. In 1933, the Owens-Illinois Glass Company purchased the company, but the Hemingray name was retained at the production facility in Muncie.
The main plant in Muncie closed in 1972 and the company ceased producing insulators.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The complex is now used by Gerdau Ameristeel, a steel production company headquartered in Brazil.
InsulatorsEdit
Hemingray was best known for producing telegraph and telephone pin insulators used on utility poles. To give an overview of the large variety of styles produced, the following table contains the twenty most common.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The table provides two numbers: the Consolidated Design (CD) number and the style number. The CD number is from a classification system developed by collectors that refers to the shape of the insulator, and is independent of the Hemingray Glass Company.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> However, the style number (or name) was assigned by Hemingray to each insulator. Due to slight modifications in design over years of production, single styles can span multiple CD numbers.
| CD | Style | Introduced | Discontinued | Usage | Nickname | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 106 | 9 | 1890s | 1940s | Telephone, rural | Pony | File:CD 106 Hemingray No. 9.jpg |
| 107 | 9 | 1950s | 1960s | Telephone, rural | Pony | File:CD 107 Hemingray No. 9.jpg |
| 113 | 12 | 1890s | 1940s | Telephone | Double Groove Pony | File:CD 113 Hemingray No. 12.jpg |
| 121 | 16 | 1890s | 1920s | Long distance | Toll | File:CD 121 Hemingray No. 16.jpg |
| 122 | 16 | 1919 | 1960s | Telephone, long distance | Toll | File:CD 122 Hemingray No. 16.jpg |
| 124 | 4 | 1880s | 1910s | Telephone | File:CD 124 Hemingray No. 13.jpg | |
| 125 | 15 | 1870s | 1933 | Telegraph | File:CD 125 Hemingray No. 15.jpg | |
| 128 | CSA | 1930s | 1950s | Telephone, long distance | File:CD 128 Hemingray CS.jpg | |
| 129 | TS | 1940s | 1960s | Transposition | File:CD 129 Hemingray TS.jpg | |
| 133 | Standard | 1870s | 1910s | Telegraph | Signal | File:CD 133 Hemingray Standard.jpg |
| 134 | 18 | 1880s | 1930s | Telegraph, secondary power distribution | File:CD 134 Hemingray No. 18.jpg | |
| 145 | 21 | 1880s | 1930s | Telegraph | Beehive | File:CD 145 Hemingray "beehive".jpg |
| 147 | 1907 | 1920s | Telegraph | Spiral Groove | File:CD 147 Hemingray "spiral groove".jpg | |
| 152 | 40 | 1910 | 1921 | Telegraph | Hoopskirt | File:CD 152 Hemingray No. 40.jpg |
| 154 | 42 | 1921 | 1960s | Telegraph | File:CD 154 Hemingray No. 42.jpg | |
| 155 | 45 | 1938 | 1960s | Telephone, long distance | File:CD 155 Hemingray No. 45.jpg | |
| 160 | 14 | 1880s | 1956 | Telephone, rural | Baby Signal | File:CD 160 Hemingray No. 14.jpg |
| 162 | 19 | 1880s | 1940s | Secondary power distribution, telephone | Signal | File:CD 162 Hemingray No. 19.jpg |
| 163 | 19 | 1940s | 1960s | Secondary power distribution | File:CD 163 Hemingray No. 19.jpg | |
| 164 | 20 | 1880s | 1940 | Secondary power distribution | File:CD 164 Hemingray No. 20.jpg |
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
- Hemingray.net online museum
- Hemingray Glass Company
- Hemingray.info: Pictures and descriptions of Hemingray insulators
- Dating Hemingray insulators
- Hemingray Glass Company - Summary