Niagara Falls 



1907 



Dunlap 



1907 



Greene 



1907 



Mershoo 



1907 



DUNLAP, ORRIN E. Illuminating Niagara with its own power. (Sci. 

 Am., Oct. 19, 1907. 97:273-274.) 



A description of the machinery used for the illumination and the effect 

 on the Falls. 



GREENE, FRANCIS V. Niagara Falls in 1907. Ontario Power 

 Company of Niagara Falls. 



A paper read before the American Civic Association at the annual 

 convention, Providence, R. I., November 19, 1907. A stereopticon 

 lecture illustrated by seventy-five diagrams and views. The author is 

 the vice president of the Ontario Power Company. Says Mr. Greene: 

 *' I trust that I have reassured you as to any fears you may have that, 

 under the law and the conditions as they now exist, there is any danger 

 of Niagara Falls being destroyed. We are not now, and never have been, 

 parties to any plans which would in any way endanger this sublime 

 spectacle. The works of all the companies which have been partially 

 constructed will not, when carried to completion on plans already approved, 

 take out of Niagara enough water to change its appearance." 



MERSHON, Ralph D. The transmission plant of the Niagara, Lock- 

 port and Ontario Power Company. (Trans. Am. inst. elec. eng'rs. 

 N. F. June 26, 1907. 26:pt. 2, 1273-1317.) 



" This event," says the author, speaking of the opening of the Niagara, 

 Lockport and Ontario transmission line, " marks the inauguration of one 

 of the first undertakings in the matter of distributing Niagara power over 

 a large section of country, and the beginning of an enterprise which is one 

 of the most important, and in some respects the most important of its 

 kind anywhere in the world." He then goes on to describe in detail 

 the capacity, length and construction of the line. 



Niagara. The Niagara Falls Power Company, Niagara Falls, N. Y., 

 and the Canadian Niagara Power Company, Ontario, April 1, 1907. 

 Bensler Press Company. Buffalo: n. d. 



A pamphlet containing information for visitors, an account of the har- 

 nessing of Niagara, a description of the plants of the two companies, 

 together with views and diagrams and maps of the developments, trans- 

 mission lines and distributing stations. 



That Niagara Falls represented a natural source of tremen- 

 dous power was known, but the mere recognition of a possible 

 source of power is not the real problem in its commercial develop- 



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