Industrial Niagara 



1904 WILLIAMS, Archibald. The romance of modern engineering. . . . 



Williams 2d ed. Phila.: Lippincott. Lond.: Pearson. 1904. Pp. 11-33. 



A history of power development at Niagara with special reference to 



the plants on the American side, and a discussion of the uses to which 



Niagara power is applied. 



With power so abundant it may well be cheap. In how many 

 regions of the world would you, for the sum of $8 (£1 12s) 

 obtain from year's end to year's end, without a break, energy 

 representing one horsepower? Having these figures before us 

 we can understand why the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, 

 which controls the aluminum industry of America, left Pitts- 

 burgh, where good coal costs but 68 cents (2s. lOd.) a ton, and 

 migrated to Niagara; and how it comes about that many manu- 

 facturers can here save enough on power in one year to pay for 

 building and cost of removal. 



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Great factories are springing up for the manufacture of car- 

 bide of calcium and other chemicals. . . . 



Paper, silver-nitrate, graphite, lamp, cloth, and steel factories 

 are rapidly rising within sound of the Falls. Electricity heats 

 the ovens in the huge establishments of the Natural Food Com- 

 pany. At Tonawanda electricity saws and planes vast sticks 

 of timber; at Lockport it whirls heavy trains; at Buffalo it runs 

 the street cars, prints one of the leading newspapers, handles 

 thousands of tons of cereals, helps in the creation of steel bridges, 

 operates refrigerators, supplies the motive power for great dock- 

 yards, tanyards, breweries, and pumps. 



(See "The Wonders of Modern Engineering" by the same author.) 



1904 (The) works of the Ontario power company. I. (Eng. rec, Oct. 8, 



1904. 50:420-422.) 

 A history of this development and a description of the head works. 



(The) works of the Ontario power company. II. (Eng. rec, Oct. 15, 

 1904. 50:460-462.) 

 The head works and pipe line. 



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