Electrical Power Cable Engineering, 3rd Edition

Foreword to the First Edition, 1999

Electrical cable might be considered to be just a conductor, overlying insulation, and, often times, an exterior shield or jacket. Perhaps this naive, simplistic concept is part of the reason that cable engineering, especially for power cable, has been largely neglected by recent electrical engineering education in the United States with its emphasis on computers, electronics, and communication. But power cable does electrically connect the world! The history, so interestingly presented, shows how the subject evolved with both great success and, sometimes, unexpected failure.

As this book emphasizes, cable engineering is technically very complex. Certainly, electrical, mechanical, and, even to some extent, ...