The New Niagara: Tourism, Technology, and the Landscape of Niagara Falls, 1776Ð1917
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
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ISBN : 9780271042220
Author :
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
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ISBN : 9780271042220
Author : Daniel Macfarlane
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780774864244
Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing façade 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.