Record Details
page 57
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 57 |
| 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. 200.16 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 | Northwest power needs during a period of 8 years. More than 22 billion kilowatt-hours were consumed in 1948, compared to less than 7 billion kilowatt-hours in 1940. The phenomenal increase in power requirements was the result of population growth coupled with the rapid expansion of farming, business, and industry. Since 1940, the region had experienced a 44 percent increase in population, compared to a 13 percent increase for the nation. Net immigration exceeded 1,000,000 between 1940 and... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1982 |
