[Newspaper]
Publication: The Evening Item
Richmond, IN, United States
vol. 29, no. 157, p. 1, col. 4
NEW INVENTION TO
MAKE INSULATORS
MACHINE CONTRIVANCE OF MUNCIE
MAN EXPECTED TO REVOLUTIONIZE
MANUFACTURE.
[Special to The Item.]
Muncie, Ind., May 27. — Henry Wagner, the well known glass manufacturer of this city, has recently invented and patented a machine for making glass insulators that promises not only to revolutionize that industry but to make a large fortune for the inventor.
There are but two firms manufacturing the glass insulators — one is located at Muncie and the other in New York.
By the process employed by these firms but one insulator is made at a time.
But by Mr. Wagner’s machine six, eight or almost any number can be made at once.
The machines can be built at small cost and a factory equipped with them would practically control the insulator market — which is now in the hands of two firms.
Mr. Wagner has taken out patents on his machine in Germany, Belgium, France and England.
He expects to roganize [sic] organize a company and build a factory here.
A number of local capitalists have expressed a willingness to put money into the enterprise.