Acronyms play a big role in our industry: NEMA, ISO, and ANSI are just a few examples. So we at ESP/SurgeX thought we’d attempt to make an acronym for a blog post about acronyms. Hopefully you’ll find it useful. An acronym is a “word formed from the initial letters in a phrase or Read More

In Mark Twain’s 1876 classic, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the mischievous protagonist is ordered to painting a fence but convinces other boys that the task is fun, thereby getting them to do it for him. Twain writes, “Tom surveyed his last touch with the eye of a Read More

“Confound that brutish electronic contraption!” Perhaps that’s what one or two Victorians shouted when they confronted a problem still facing people throughout the world—the failure of electrical equipment. Consider the first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1858. In T Read More