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In 1895, the Niagara Falls Power Company installed an early largescale polyphase generating station at Niagara Falls, New York. Later named Adams Plant No. 1, power was first produced in 1895. Ten years later, a total of six ac-generating stations were in operation on both sides of the U.S.?Canadian border. The rapid development of power generation at Niagara Falls was in no small part a result of the burgeoning electrochemical industry.

This book is a welcome addition to the body of literature on power system modeling, computation, and control. It is designed to make the advanced topics of modeling, computation, and control more accessible to graduate students, power engineers, and control design professionals. The organization and material in this text reflect the preferences of the authors for 1) the topics covered, 2) the depth of the material included for each topic, and 3) how the material is explained. A distinctive feature of this text is that most of the topics are illustrated with detailed numerical examples. The depth of their respective industry experience is clearly shown throughout the nearly 600-page treatment of the topics. The text is organized into three parts: System concepts; Synchronous machine models and their control; and Advanced power system topics. The book offers a comprehensive list of 243 references and a thorough index as well as color versions of key figures. Each chapter ends with a set of problems, totaling 155 for the entire book.

The opening lines of the foreword in the first edition (1942) of the Westinghouse Electric a Manufacturing Company's Electrical Transmission and Distribution Reference Book (Figure 1) start in this way: Some twenty years ago a well known electrical engineer was ordered by his physician to take a complete rest.