Bewley's lattice diagram is a graphical method that has been widely used for determining value of a wave in transient analysis. This paper presents an extensive literature survey of previous publications in which Bewley's lattice diagram has been used for study of electromagnetic transients, fault location in distributed systems, calculation of transient fault currents n voltages in power system networks. From the survey, several observations can be made, such as on the purpose of analysis using this method and its advantages over the other methods. The paper also further discusses about the work done for computation with digital computer using spreadsheet and recursive algorithm method. The spreadsheet method is quite difficult to program using a high level language. The later method can be easily done with recursive algorithm and further work needs to be done in this direction.