Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World's Most Famous Waterfall

Daniel Macfarlane

Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World's Most Famous Waterfall
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Country
Canada
Published
18 March 2021
Pages
332
ISBN
9780774864237

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 most important natural sites in North America. Daniel Macfarlane shows how this natural wonder is essentially a tap: huge tunnels around the reconfigured Falls channel the waters of the Niagara River, which ebb and flow according to the tourism calendar. This book offers a unique interdisciplinary and transborder perspective on how the Niagara landscape embodies the power of technology and nature.

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