Niagara Falls 



1906 Niagara power schemes. (Eng., Feb. 16, 1906. 81:218-220.) 



A review of a lecture by Professor Unwin before the Institution of 

 Mechanical Engineers (London) giving an account of Niagara develop- 

 ments and problems and the effect of diversion on the Falls. 



(The) Power of Niagara. Niagara Falls Power Company. Niagara 

 Falls, N. Y.: 1906. 



An attractive and compact advertising pamphlet setting forth the 

 capacity of the plants named, the cost of and advantages in using Niagara 

 power. 



Many plans were devised for the harnessing of Niagara, but 

 it was not until 1 888 that a feasible one dawned upon the horizon 

 of the world's work. Then it was that the United States granted 

 a series of patents covering the generating and distributing of 

 what were termed polyphase electrical currents. The invention 

 embodied in these patents made possible the transmitting of elec- 

 trical energy over great distances. With such a possibility 

 reasonably assured, the Niagara Falls Power Company began on 

 October 4, 1 890, the construction of its first great hydro-electric 

 generating station. Not quite five years later electrical power 

 for commercial purposes was delivered from that station, and on 

 November 1 5, 1896, the same power was first used commercially 

 in Buffalo, twenty-five miles away. 



Beginning with the modest number of three generators and 

 the small output capacity of 15,000 electrical horse-power, the 

 first generating station grew to a capacity of 50,000 electrical 

 horse-power; and then a second station close by was completed, 

 with an additional capacity of 50,000 electrical horse-power, 

 whilst across the river in the Dominion of Canada, a third station 

 was being built, which to-day has available 50,000 electrical 

 horse-power out of an ultimate output of 1 1 0,000 horse-power. 



1906 RANKINE, WILLIAM B. National cyclopedia of American biography. 



Rankine g . N . y. : White, 1 906. Vol. XIII. Pp. 286-287. 



Brief history and description of the exploitation of Niagara water-power 

 with special reference to the developments of the Niagara Falls Power 

 Company and the Canadian-Niagara Power Company. 



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