Record Details
page 46
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 46 |
| 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. 237.355 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 | BPA's high-voltage, high-capacity transmission system grew from 37.4 miles of lines in 1939 to a total of 2,720 miles in 1945 with an investment of about $75 million—to become the second largest power system in the nation. In 1939, the BPA grid marketed power from Bonneville generators which had less than 100,000 kilowatts of installed capacity. By 1945, when additions to Grand Coulee's generation were completed, the Federal generating capacity had expanded to 1,316,400 kilowatts. The... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1971 |
