DocumentCode
2798075
Title
Harmonics in the early years of electrical engineering: a brief review of events, people and documents
Author
Emanuel, Alexander Eigeles
Author_Institution
Worcester Polytech. Inst., MA, USA
Volume
1
fYear
2000
fDate
2000
Firstpage
1
Abstract
This paper presents a brief survey of the first engineering publications and events that dealt with nonsinusoidal voltage and current waveforms. It gives the glimpse of historical perspective, with the focus on the early nonlinear loads evolution and their impact on the power industry of that time
Keywords
harmonic distortion; history; load (electric); power engineering; power system harmonics; electrical engineering; engineering publications; historical perspective; nonlinear loads evolution; nonsinusoidal current waveforms; nonsinusoidal voltage waveforms; power industry impact; power system harmonics; AC generators; Electrical engineering; Fourier series; Gaussian processes; History; Power engineering and energy; Power industry; Power system harmonics; Power system stability; Voltage;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Harmonics and Quality of Power, 2000. Proceedings. Ninth International Conference on
Conference_Location
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN
0-7803-6499-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICHQP.2000.896990
Filename
896990
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