Fixing Niagara Falls : environment, energy, and engineers at the world's most famous waterfall / Daniel Macfarlane.
"Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing facade designed to appeal to tourists. "Fixing Niagara Falls" reveals the technological feats and cross-border politics that facilitated the transformation of one of the m...
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Vancouver ; Toronto :
UBC Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Nature, history, society.
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Table of Contents:
- Harnessing Niagara: Developments up to the Twentieth Century
- Saving Niagara: Innovation and Change in the Early Twentieth Century
- Negotiating Niagara: Environmental Diplomacy and the 1950 Treaty
- Empowering Niagara: Diversions and Generating Stations
- Disguising Niagara: The Horseshoe Falls Waterscape
- Preserving Niagara: The American Falls Campaign
- Conclusion: Fabricating Niagra.