Stobie pole
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See also: stobie pole
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Stobie (“surname”) + pole, after the inventor, James Cyril Stobie.[1]
Noun
[edit]Stobie pole (plural Stobie poles)
- (Australia, chiefly South Australia) A pole for supporting power lines, consisting of a tapered slab of concrete bracketed by steel joists.
- 1927, Physical Society of London, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Science Abstracts, page 45:
- The estimated life of the Stobie pole is forty-five years, without any maintenance but coating with bitumen at the ground line.
- 1985, Tad Sobolewski, Crossing the Bridges[1], page 76:
- He stood behind an old and dilapidated Stobie pole and eyed me and my pushbike.
- 1993, Patti Walkuski, David Harris, No Bed Of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, page 243:
- Pepe, at ten years old, had just stolen his first car, a blue VW parked up the street. He was too small to reach the brake pedal and pranged it into a stobie pole.
- 2008, Graeme Dandy, David Walker, Trevor Daniell, Robert Warner, Planning and Design of Engineering Systems, Second Edition, page 68:
- However, the lack of trees in South Australia severely constrained the use of timber and led to the early and widespread use of a steel-concrete composite pole, called a Stobie pole after its designer. Stobie poles have been a distinguishing feature of the South Australian landscape for many decades.
References
[edit]- ^ 2002, R. W. Linn, "Stobie, James Cyril (1895–1953)", entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, Melbourne University Press — In 1924 Stobie invented the 'Stobie pole' to carry electricity cables and telegraph wires. It was constructed of two steel-I beams, held together by tie bolts; the space between them was filled with concrete. A.E.S.Co. paid him £500 for the patent rights.