Konstantin Papailiou considers the worldwide “overhead lines society” to be like a big family. If that is the case, Papailiou would be the father. He is chairman of the CIGRE Study Committee “Overhead ...

I recently chaired a task force under IEEE Subcommittee 15.11 (overhead lines) to revise Standard 738, IEEE’s standard for calculating the current-temperature relationship of bare overhead conductors.

James Joyce, in Ulysses, tracks the various wanderings of his characters, both major and minor, across Dublin’s electric tram network of the time. Father Conmee worries about the solemnity of the ...

Manhattan learned, early on, that public utilities such as electricity, telegraph and telephone lines were a mixed blessing. In 1885, a mile of nighttime Broadway was illuminated by arc lights -- ...