Industrial Niagara 

 discussion of the problems encountered, and the advantages of Niagara 1893 



Falls as an industrial center. 



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Seyrig, William. L'Utilisation du Niagara. (Le Genre Civil. *893 

 Feb. 4, 1893. 22:224-226.) Se y Hg 



Account of the Niagara Falls Power Company's plan and equipment. 



STILLWELL, LEWIS BUCKLEY. Electric power generation at Niagara. 1893 

 (Cass., July, 1895. 8:253-304.) Stillwdl 



The author, an electrical engineer and assistant manager of the West- 

 inghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, had under supervision the 

 installation of electric apparatus at Niagara Falls. The "apparatus con- 

 stituting the system " adopted is described, a detailed description of the 

 generators is given, and an account of the " means adopted for delivering 

 these currents to the supply circuits which convey them from the power- 

 house to the premises of the users of power." 



Electricity as an agent for transmitting and distributing power 

 has received its most weighty endorsement in its adoption by the 

 Cataract Construction Company, of New York, for their great 

 project at Niagara. No enterprise of modern times, involving 

 special and extraordinary engineering problems, has been more 

 carefully, more patiently, more systematically or more intelligently 

 studied than has the utilization of this, the greatest water power 

 in the world. The officers and directors of the company, con- 

 trolling financial means ample for their purpose, have, for five 

 years, energetically and persistently endeavored to avail them- 

 selves of the best resources of modern engineering science. Con- 

 fronting a problem without precedent in its magnitude, and 

 almost without parallel in its significance, they have attacked it 

 with energy and ability of the highest order, studied it with keen 

 insight and sound judgment and, in solving it with success, have 

 contributed a chapter of rare interest and meaning to the history 

 of industrial progress. 



The utilization of Niagara for industrial purposes imposes 

 upon those undertaking it a responsibility far beyond that which 

 is measured by the capital invested. Science is cosmopolitan; 

 she recognizes no boundary of race or nation; and engineering 



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