Record Details
page 48
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 48 |
| 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. 239.592 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 | From a small community on a bend of the river with about 200 persons, Hanford expanded to house a wartime construction force of 45,000. Today, the Tri-City area (Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick) continues in its role as a major nuclear research center and the site of the Northwest's first nuclear powerplant. In addition to war loads served directly by BPA, the early construction of the high-voltage grid also served as a "lifesaver" to all utilities in the Pacific Northwest. During the... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1973 |
