Livermore’s Centennial Light Facts

by admin on December 10, 2009

LIVERMORE'S

Facts

* Age: 106 years and counting (as of 2007)

* Installed: First installed at the fire department hose cart house on L Street in 1901. Shortly after it moved to the main firehouse on Second. In 1903 it was moved to the new Station 1 on First and McLeod, and survived the renovation of the Firehouse in 1937, when it was off for about a week. During it's first 75 years it was connected directly to the 110 Volt power line, and not to the back-up generator for fear of a power surge. In 1976 it was moved with a full police and fire truck escort, under the watch of Captain Kirby Slate, to its present site in 1976 at Fire Station 6, 4550 East Ave., Livermore, California. It was then hooked to a seperate power source at 120V according to Frank Maul, Retired City Electrician, with no interuptions since.

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Cloth covered wire from Sundial Wire

by admin on December 10, 2009

Sundial Wire has been providing beautiful, high quality, cloth covered wire since 1991. Our loyal customers include lighting designers, antique appliance restorers and collectors, architects, museums, restaurant designers, home decorators, even Hollywood set decorators! In fact, we have been the motion picture industry’s number one supplier of authentic cloth covered electrical wire since our inception.

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kilokat’s ANTIQUE LIGHT BULB site : links

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Great Light Bulb resource list
kilokat’s ANTIQUE LIGHT BULB site : links.

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If you are going to do any electronics work, you are going to have to do some soldering. Many people fear it before they have done it, but it is really pretty simple to do. This exercise will show you how to solder a DC power connector to a set of wires for a breadboard.
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Two-Part Wood Turn Mold

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Wood turn mold actually being used in demo showing charring and wood bar clamps being used as handles.
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WHAT ARE THE MOST VALUABLE AMERICAN BLOWN GLASS BOTTLES?

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Many would say that Blown Glass Bottles are the most valuable of all bottles because of their historical significance and age. Early examples are rare. You are not likely for run into one at a yard sale. Collectors have been searching for these since the early 1900s. Most of the surviving examples were [...]

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Molds – Wood & Metal

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These turn molds are traditional full height wood mold made of cherry by Walter Evans (who has stopped making them since the loss of his assistant.) It has a disk bottom attached to one side and hinges and handles to permit an assistant to open and close the mold around the glass. The mold is [...]

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Glassblower.Info – Cast Iron Molds and Paste Molds

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Turn-molds: The turn-mold is more of a process than a mold and could be produced in about any full height round mold. All turn-mold bottles (also called a “paste mold”) are round in cross section since no other shape could be turned or twisted in the mold to produce the seamless body distinctive of these [...]

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One in 8 Million – New York Characters in Sound and Images – The New York Times

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Great Interview with Louise Nicholas, Chief Jury Clerk at 60 Centre Street.
One in 8 Million – New York Characters in Sound and Images – The New York Times.

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