The Power Trail
Subtitle: History of Hydroelectricity at Niagara
Publisher: Western New York Wares
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Buffalo, N.Y.
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 118
Table of contents: title: 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 Gillette’s “Metropolis” -- “Free Niagara” movements. Queen Victoria Park, Canada -- Second free Niagara movement -- “Free Niagara” movement continues -- Niagara International Peace Park : one more vision -- Time line -- Glossary.