Record Details
page 139
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 139 |
| 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. 169.373 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 | In 1951 BPA laid the first San Juan Islands cable. This cable, the longest ever manufactured at that time, was over 7 miles in length and weighed 19 lbs. per foot. Nine railroad cars carried the cable overland from New Jersey to Seattle. |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,2063 |
