Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 584
ore syste-matic attempt was made to utilize the falls. A canal was constructed from Port Dav, about NIAGARA, THE UTILIZATION OF. 559 three-fourths of a mile above the falls, to the cliflf above the lower river. In 1874, the Cataractmill was erected by Mr. Charles B. Gaskill. Since then other mills… … are prosperous partly because of the cheapness and steadiness of the motive power, partlybecause of the facilities of transport. These mills discharge the tail water on the face oftlie clifE over the river. Since the growth of a feeling against disfiguring the falls, it hasbecome undesirable to…
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