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Acknowledgments
The following organizations have contributed objects, books, subscriptions,
photographs, conference passes and other materials which have advanced the
Smithsonian's effort to document the on-going change in the electric power industry.
We gratefully acknowledge their generous and important contributions to the
project. Alabama Electric Cooperative: a copy of Power Pioneers: AEC's First Fifty Years, by Charles R. Lowman; information about AEC's compressed-air energy storage plant. American Public Power Association: copies of "State Information Database on Restructuring the Electric Industry," and of the book Profiles of Power, by Scott Ridley. Bonneville Power Administration: a copy of BPA & The Struggle for Power At Cost, by Gene Tollefson. CMS Energy: funding; interview with William McCormick. Edison Electric Institute: a pass for the conference "Grid Regionalization: Questions & Answers" held in February 1999 (co-sponsored by The Energy Daily<); a selection of books and pamphlets about electric power technologies. Electricity Consumers Resource Council (ELCON): a pass for the ELCON Seminar "Power Politics: State & Local Initiatives" held in October 1997. Green Mountain Energy Partners, LLC: a pair of beeswax candles distributed for the "Candlelight Night" green-power awareness program, and related background documents. Hydro Québec: funding; a copy of Hydro-Québec: After 100 Years of Electricity, by André Bolduc, Clarence Hogue, and Daniel Larouche; various reports and brochures; interview with André Caillé. National Association of Attorneys General: transcripts of
a series of public hearings about "Utility Deregulation." National Rural Electric Cooperative Finance Corporation (CFC): a copy of The CFC Story, by Patricia Lloyd Williams. Platts (div. of McGraw-Hill): subscription to Megawatt Daily; a pass for the conference "Electricity Regulation" held in October 1998 (co-sponsored by Gas Daily).
Ontario Hydro: funding; a copy of The Politics of Power: Ontario Hydro and Its Government, 1906-1995, by Neil B. Freeman. US Generating Company: funding; assorted images of company power
plants; samples of company advertising; various reports and brochures;
interview with Joseph P. Kearney. TriState Generation & Transmission Association, Inc.: a copy of Transforming the Past into the Future, by Mark Dowling. United States Department of Energy: an assortment of slides from the Energy Technologies Visuals Collections, and a series of books and pamphlets from the Energy Information Agency. US Publishing: subscription to Restructuring Today. Credits
National Museum of American History: Dr. David K. Allison,
Chair & Curator - Information Technology & Communications Division Dr. Bernard S. Finn, Curator Emeritus
- Electricity Collections Harold D. Wallace, Jr,
Associate Curator - Electricity Collections Thanks to: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: Dr. Richard F. Hirsh, Professor
- History of Technology and Science & Technology Studies
American Ideas: Carl D. Costello, President Eve Avedon Spirn, Program Manager |