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Evolution of the Nation's Electric Power Systems
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Evolution of the Nation's Electric Power Systems |
| Relation | Power and the Pacific Northwest |
| Date | 2005-04-20 to 2005-05-09 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 216.799 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale and 48>24 RGB color tiffs edited in Photoshop CS 8.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, grayscale bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description |
1 Evolution of the Nation's
Electric Power Systems Man's earliest experience with electricity was as lightning flashing across the night skies, which first aroused his fear—and then his curiosity. Ancient texts discuss this mysterious force. And in the 18th and 19th centuries, elementary experiments were made to explain this energetic phenomenon; every American school child is familiar with the story of Benjamin Franklin and his kite. In the wake of the experiments and theories of... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1928 |
