Niagara Falls 



1905 of the Canadian Niagara Power Co. and the Toronto Niagara 

 Power Co. are reproductions of the electric stations with tunnels, 

 wheel pits and vertical shafts on the New York bank, with such 

 minor improvements as experience has dictated. 



In the Gorge, close to the foot of the Horseshoe Falls and 

 diagonally across the river from its American prototype of ten 

 years ago, is the new plant of the Ontario Power Co. This plant, 

 like that of the Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Co. 

 across the Gorge, takes water above the upper rapids, leads it 

 from the top to the foot of the cliffs in steel pipes, passes it 

 through horizontal turbines that are direct connected to their 

 electric generators, and discharges it into the lower river. While 

 the much larger and later plant of the Ontario Power Co. 

 presents many modifications* of detail, perhaps its most striking 

 departure from its prototype is in the use of a steel pipe line 

 instead of a canal to bring the water to the top of the cliff. 



1905 Significance of the hydro-electric developments at Niagara Falls. 



(Elec. rev., Feb. 11, 1905. 46:224-225.) 



An editorial on the amount of power in use and prospective. Power 

 development in the United States is compared with that in other countries. 



1905 Smith, CECIL B. Construction of Canadian Niagara power corn- 



Smith pany's one hundred thousand horse-power hydro-electric plant at Niagara 



Falls, Ont. (Trans. Can. soc. c. e. Jan., 1905. 19:62-82.) 



A description of the construction work, buildings, and machinery. An 

 abstract of the article may be found in the Electrical Review, New York, 

 New York, December 2, 1905. 



SMITH, Cecil B. Hydro-electric power plants in the Canadian 

 Niagara district. (Eng. mag., Feb., 1905. 28:727-752.) 



A comprehensive survey of the advantages of the district and of the 

 various plants and their distinctive features by one " most intimately 

 familiar with the entire scheme of development of the Niagara water 

 power." 

 1905 Turbines of the Ontario power company, Niagara Falls. (Elec. 



wld. and eng., April 11, 1905. 45:652.) 



Describes the turbines of the horizontal type, of the largest capacity 

 ever built. 



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