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 586
of a fall of 200 ft. It is essential to the plan ofconstructing a tail-race tunnel in the rock, that a very considerable amount of power shouldbe utilized. Otherwise the proportionate cost of the tunnel would be excessive. NIAGARA, THE UTILIZATION OF 561 The Niagara Falls Power Co. and the Cataract… … Fig. 3.—Wheel pit and discharge. plans. (Laws of New York, 1886, ch. 83, 489 ; 1889, ch. 109 ; 1891, ch. 253 ; 1892, ch. 513.)Land extending along two miles of the shore above Port Day was obtained. Subse-quently, in 1889, the Cataract Construction Co. was formed, the primary object of which…
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