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Introduction -- The origins of hydropower at Niagara Falls -- Schoellkopf and the hydraulic canal. The canal and the high banks -- Schoellkopf power plants. Power Station No. 1 -- Power Station No. 2 -- Power Station No. 3 -- Power Station No. 3-B -- Power Station No. 3-C -- Adams Power Plant and Echota. Battle of the currents -- How the Adams plant worked -- The architecture of the Adams plant -- The planned village of Echota -- Edward Dean Adams plant : the final years -- Canadian hydropower at Niagara. And the race is on! Canadian Niagara Power Company -- Ontario Power Company -- Toronto Power Company -- The “people’s power movement”. Sir Adam Beck hvdro electric plants -- Niagara’s power gallery -- Collapse of the Schoellkopf. Falling into the gorge -- Why it collapsed -- Schoellkopf today -- Niagara Power Project. Robert Moses wins; a hydropower plant and a park -- Tuscarora take on Moses and NYPA -- The construction of the Niagara power project -- What is the Niagara power project? -- How does it work? -- Additional projects -- Pay back time -- Competing utopian dreams. Harnessing the falls : the technological utopia. Colonel Love’s model city becomes Love Canal -- King Camp

Author

Brett Gawronski

Publisher

Western New York Wares

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781879201545