William Wallace dies, invented telephone insulator

[Trade Journal]

Publication: Crockery & Glass Journal

New York, NY, United States
vol. 78, no. 18, p. 15, col. 2

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William Wallace, of Wheeling, W. Va., died at Los Angeles October 16, aged seventy. The deceased was widely known in the glass industry, having brought forth a number of new ideas and inventions, among which is the glass insulator now used throughout the world on telephone and telegraph poles, the screw glass cap for fruit jars, and the chilled steel mold for the production of imitation cut glass.

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Keywords:Hemingray : Cadiz Glass Company
Researcher notes:William Wallace is known to be an employee of the Cadiz Glassworks. It is unknown if this is the same William Wallace that worked at the Hemingray Glass Co.
Supplemental information: 
Researcher:Bob Stahr
Date completed:January 9, 2008 by: Bob Stahr;