Electrical transmission and distribution Westinghouse reference book Fourth Edition Hardcover ? 1950 by Westinghouse (Author) Hardcover: 824 pages Publisher: Westinghouse Electric Corporation; 4th edition (1950) When I began working in the electric utility industry in 1967, fresh out of enginnering school with a BSEE; my boss told me the one book I needed was the Westinghouse T&D book. It cost $15 then when purchased directly from Westinghouse T&D sales. After more than 40 years in the industry and a technical library of over 2000 volumns, the T&D book is still the most used in my collection. When I returned to graduate school in the `70`s for advanced degrees, I had a professor that used to teach at the General Electric Power University tell me the Westinghouse T&D book was the only thing Westinghouse ever did that was better than what General Electric did. If you are an electrical engineer working in generation/transmission and your employer will only buy you one book, it should be the T&D book. The name is really a misnomer. Westinghouse has another classic book on Distribution. The T&D book would be better titled the Transmission and Generation book. It has plenty on Distribution for a Transmission engineer to get a good understanding, but Transmission is where it shines. The examples and photographs are dated of course, but the physics are just as valid today as they were the day they were published. There are estimating tables and computational tricks that I have never seen in another reference work. As the book gets more scarce, the difficulty of locating a copy in good condition is going to increase. I would hope that some entreprneur would acquire the rights and make this classiv more available to the next generation of power engineers. Comment 7 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you?