The silicon forest: high tech in the Portland area, 1945 to 1986
ISBN: 9780875952260
Platform/Publisher: ACLS / Oregon Historical Society Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Ten pages at a time; Download: Ten pages at a time
Subjects: Science & Technology;

In the first of a proposed two-volume history, Wollner (history, Portland State U.) chronicles the birth and the expansion of Oregon's most influential public utility, the utility responsible for the world's first long distance transmission of electricity in 1889--a record distance of fourteen miles. Illustrated with some 150 photographs and drawings. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


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