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The Grid - Biography of an American Technology (Hardcover)
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The Grid - Biography of an American Technology (Hardcover)
Series: The MIT Press
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The history of the grid, the world's largest interconnected power
machine that is North America's electricity infrastructure. The
North American power grid has been called the world's largest
machine. The grid connects nearly every living soul on the
continent; Americans 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 grid's maturity
as a networked infrastructure in the 1980s. She focuses on the
strategies and technologies used to control power on the grid-in
fact made up of four major networks of interconnected power
systems-paying particular attention to the work of engineers and
system operators who handled the everyday operations. To do so, she
consulted sources that range from the pages of historical trade
journals to corporate archives to the papers of her father, Nathan
Cohn, who worked in the industry from 1927 to 1989-roughly the
period of key power control innovations across North America. Cohn
investigates major challenges and major breakthroughs but also the
hidden aspects of our electricity infrastructure, both technical
and human. She describes the origins of the grid and the growth of
interconnection; emerging control issues, including difficulties in
matching generation and demand on linked systems; collaboration and
competition against the backdrop of economic depression and
government infrastructure investment; the effects of World War II
on electrification; postwar plans for a coast-to-coast grid; the
northeast blackout of 1965 and the East-West closure of 1967; and
renewed efforts at achieving stability and reliability after those
two events.
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