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...Buffalo, Niagara & Eastern Power Corp.: Schoellkopf property, largest U. S. power system, serving 500 cities and towns including Buffalo. Niagara Falls supplies most of its power. Jacob, Paul and Alfred Schoellkopf are Board Chairman, President and General Manager...
...similar murder took place but a short while past near Niagara Falls and struck horror in the breasts of everyone sensitive enough to experience the shock of useless death. The circumstances of the present outrage are such as to awaken even more intense sympathy. The facts that the victim was accompanied by his family, was a full fifteen miles from the border, and possessed not a trace of alcohol in the car, all combine to awaken popular recognition of an affair, the barest facts of which are hideous...
...Edison had surveyed Niagara Falls on his own initiative in 1886. His first assistance to the new-formed Cataract Construction Co. consisted simply in repeating that electric power could be transmitted from the Falls, as Direct Current...
...observed experiments and progress in Switzerland. He formed an International Niagara Commission, with Sir William Thompson (later Lord Kelvin) of Glasgow for chairman, to act as judges in a prize competition for the design of the Niagara generators. From the first, the Commission advised against Alternating Current, but the man who designed the prize-winning generator, a Scottish professor named George Forbes, joined Mr. Adams in the belief that Alternating would prove feasible...
...movements and investigating Alternating Current for himself. He was prepared, when the bids were let, to construct AC generators on the Forbes design, and was quick to acknow ledge Mr. Adams' victory when the installations proved successful. The compressed-air plan was scrapped. Alternating Current began flashing from Niagara in volume sufficient to turn every wheel and light every bulb in Buffalo. When Lord Kelvin visited the Falls and signed the visitors' book, he cheerfully saluted the wisdom Mr. Adams had shown in proceeding contrary to the foremost electrical advice of the time...