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DURING the early stages of the industrial applications of electricity, direct current held sway in both telecommunication and power transmission. Under the influence of Kelvin and Edison, direct current continued to be used for the latter purpose, long after the practical superiority of alternating current had been fully demonstrated. At present, all the most important power transmission is done at frequencies of 50–60 cycles per second. There are, however, great difficulties in the way of extending alternating current power transmission over distances exceeding say 400 miles, and much thought is being given to reversion to D.C. for projects such as the transmission of powers of the order of a million kW. The wheel has therefore turned almost full circle.
High Frequency Transmission Lines
By Dr. Willis Jackson. (Methuen's Monographs on Physical Subjects.) Pp. vii + 152. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1945.) 6s. net.
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High Frequency Transmission Lines. Nature 155, 681 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155681a0
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