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...Yorker saw what was coming. At Consolidated Edison's Energy Control Center on Manhattan's West Side, Engineer Edwin Nellis was monitoring a meter that records the amount of power flowing in from upstate
...which a cascade travels. Nonetheless, Maine was the only New England state completely unaffected by the blackout. It was able to cut off its single, 115-kilovolt line to CANUSE in time. The Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland system escaped because its seven connections to CANUSE blew in time. Con Edison had no automatic cutoff system that protected it in the emergency...
...tried everyone's resources?and few would admit defeat. In stalled elevators and trains, passengers improvised games, including one whose object was to suggest the unlikeliest partners for stalled elevator cars (samples: Jean-Paul Sartre and Norman Vincent Peale; Defense Secretary McNamara and a draft-card burner; any Con Edison executive and any New York housewife). Trapped office workers improvised candles with copies of Book Week and rubber cement...
Ever so slowly, Con Edison found enough of it to relume sections of the city. At 5:28 a.m., precisely twelve hours after everything went black, a large section of midtown Manhattan blazed anew with light?causing those whose electric clocks were right on time to wonder the following morning whether it had all been only a dream...
...Institute's collection begins with an 1888 recording of Poet Robert Browning shouting "Hip, hip, hooray!" for Edison's new machine, and encompasses every form of music right up to the rock 'n' rollers. "Today's trivia," explains Striker, "may interest tomorrow's historian." Singers such as Resnik, Sutherland and Gianna d'Angelo visit the Institute to hear how their predecessors interpreted a role, conductors and musicologists to hear little-known works...