The grid : biography of an American technology /
The North American power grid has been called the world's largest machine. The grid connects nearly every living soul on the continent; American rely utterly on the miracle of electrification. In this book, Julie Cohn tells the history of the grid, from early linkages in the 1890s through the g...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- The birth of the grid, 1899 to 1918
- Contests for control, 1918-1934
- Balancing reliability and economy, 1930-1940
- Power transformations on the home front, 1935-1950
- Nuances of control in an increasingly interconnected world, 1945-1965
- Drifting "lazily" into synchrony, from blackout to grid, 1965-1967
- Reaching maturity : integration, security, advanced technologies, 1965-1990
- Deregulation and disaggregation, a brief overview, 1980-2015.