HOW NIKOLA TESLA HARNESSED THE POWER OF NIAGARA FALLS

From Collective Evolution: Can you imagine if we were still walking around at night using candles to light our way, or heating our homes only by fire? Sure, it’s romantic and nostalgic to do that once in a while, but at the end of the day, society would look extremely different without the use of…

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Still powerful: Niagara Falls may have lost some luster, but you’ll get misty nonetheless

From the Columbus Dispatch: Mother Nature still rules at Niagara, although her crown has lost some luster. The Niagara of today is far different from the Niagara encountered by the first European explorers. The parking is a lot trickier, for one. And the food is better now, for the most part. The falls also flow…

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Feb. 10, 1961: Moses Parts the Waters at Niagara

From Wired.com: Niagara Falls is a beautiful marvel of nature indeed, but urban planners were more interested in the falls’ potential to generate copious amounts of electricity. Of course, to produce power, the project needed a reservoir with a pumping plant, which would require land. Robert Moses, a famously elitist urban planner, didn’t wish to…

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