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There is an excellent HAER document on early HV transmission lines. The
author, a great new Ph.D. from Arizona State University, found that the
modern lattice transmission tower is based on windmill support structures.
Early electricity transmission companies ordered their first towers from
windmill manufacturers. The HAER citation is: "The EMA Transmission Line,"
HAER No. AZ-6- B.
Leah Glaser, the author, also wrote an article with some of the information
from the HAER study: "Nice Towers, eh?: Evaluating a Transmission Line in
Arizona." CRM: Cultural Resource Management 20 (17), U.S. Department of the
Interior, National Park Service (1997), pgs. 23-24.
Historian Eugene Levy wrote an outstanding history of transmission towers:
"The Aestethics of Power: High-Voltage Transmission Systems and the American
Landscape." Technology & Culture 38(3): 575-607. (1997). Levy's history is a
great view of towers as material culture and his sources are an
informational goldmine.
-David Rotenstein
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David S. Rotenstein, Ph.D., RPA
Consulting Historian
Silver Spring, MD 20910
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web: http://davidsr01.home.mindspring.com
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