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Daylight Saving Time in World War I and the Electrical Industry
February 5, 2025
Daylight Saving Time in World War I and the Electrical Industry For longer than the last fifty years in the United States, autumn has been a time when the clocks fall back an hour for the ending of daylight saving time. The practice has always been controversial since its adoption and remains so up to
“Over and Under: A Brief History of Why Electric Power Lines Can’t Easily Be Placed Underground”
December 30, 2024
By Robert Colburn, Research Coordinator, IEEE History Center One of the questions people often ask me is why haven’t electric power distribution lines been placed underground and out of sight. The answer is complex, involving mostly the difficulty of preventing alternating current under large voltages from arcing to the surrounding ground. In aerial high-tension transmission