The Pacific Coast Electric Transmission Association was an American engineering institute founded in 1884 in response to the East coast establishment of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.[1] It published its proceedings in the journalist George P. Low's journal The Electrical Journal,[2] later titled The Journal of Electricity and then The Journal of Electricity, Power, and Gas, and began annual meetings in 1898.[3] The annual meeting acted as both an electrical industry conference and an academic conference in electrical engineering.[4][5] It disbanded with the continuation of the AIEE to the West coast in or shortly after 1905.[5]
References
edit- ^ Freeze, Karen J.; Williams, James C. (1987). "Technology and Technical Sciences in History-ICOHTEC Symposium, Dresden, August 25-29, 1986". Technology and Culture. 28 (4): 842–849. doi:10.2307/3105187. ISSN 0040-165X.
- ^ "Editorial". The Journal of Electricity. 4 (5): 98. August 1897.
- ^ "Electric transmission: Second annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Association". Los Angeles Times. 21 June 1899. p. 4. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- ^ "San Francisco electrified: Pacific Coast Transmission Association discusses many subjects". Los Angeles Times. 22 June 1899. p. 3. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- ^ a b Williams, James C. (1997). Energy and the making of modern California. Internet Archive. Akron, Ohio : University of Akron Press. pp. 190–193. ISBN 978-1-884836-15-2.