General Electric History: Schenectady Works Welcomes You! Page 25

[Schenectady Works Welcomes You! is a tourist booklet published by General Electric in 1949. Full size images of each page are reproduced here, and the photographs are available individually at original and enlarged sizes.]

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The Porcelain Manufacturing Division makes porcelains and other ceramic compounds used in the manufacture of electrical apparatus. The products vary in size from a small porcelain insulator weighing a fraction of an ounce used in an electric flat iron, to a 1,000 pound high voltage porcelain insulator used in a 300,000 volt transformer.

[Unloading High Voltage Insulators from Kiln - 1x | 4x]

[Grinding Gasket surface on High Voltage Insulator - 1x | 4x]

[Finishing operation on Lightning Arrestor Cap - 1x | 4x]

Updated 8/14/01

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