PDF-[EBOOK]-The Grid: Biography of an American Technology (The MIT Press)

The history of the grid the worlds largest interconnected power machine that is North Americas electricity infrastructureThe North American power grid has been called the worlds 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 grids maturity as a networked infrastructure in the 1980s She focuses on the strategies and technologies used to control power on the gridin fact made up of four major networks of interconnected power systemspaying 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 1989roughly the period of key power control innovations across North AmericaCohn 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 coasttocoast grid the northeast blackout of 1965 and the EastWest closure of 1967 and renewed efforts at achieving stability and reliability after those two events. edu Abstract We consider the sparse Fourier transform problem given a complex vector of length and a parameter estimate the largest in magnitude coe64259cients of the Fourier transform of The problem is of key interest in several areas including s s n liht on th o00icial Vatican policy to prot ct s 1 o00 nd r pri sts r a rdl ss o0 th dan r th y pos to childr n Th r is vid nc that a 1994 Vatican dir ctiv r 5 ct d th notion o0 mandatory r portin o0 all ations o0 s 1ual aus to th Gardai and inst Note Cards. 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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology marks the 150th anniversary of its founding in 2011. Over the years, MIT has lived by its motto, Mens et Manus (Mind and Hand), dedicating itself to the pursuit of knowledge and its application to real-world problems. MIT has produced leading scholars in fields ranging from aeronautics to economics, invented entire academic disciplines, and transformed ideas into market-ready devices. This book examines a series of turning points, crucial decisions that helped define MIT. Many of these issues have relevance today: the moral implications of defense contracts, the optimal balance between government funding and private investment, and the right combination of basic science, engineering, and humanistic scholarship in the curriculum.Chapters describe the educational vison and fund-raising acumen of founder William Barton Rogers (MIT was among the earliest recipients of land grant funding) MIT\'s relationship with Harvard--its rival, doppelg?nger, and, for a brief moment, degree-conferring partner the battle between pure science and industrial sponsorship in the early twentieth century MIT\'s rapid expansion during World War II because of defense work and military training courses the conflict between Cold War gadgetry and the humanities protests over defense contracts at the height of the Vietnam War the uproar in the local community over the perceived riskiness of recombinant DNA research and the measures taken to reverse years of institutionalized discrimination against women scientists. 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