Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World's Most Famous Waterfall

by Daniel MacFarlane

Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing facade designed to appeal to tourists. Essentially, this natural wonder is now a tap: huge tunnels channel the waters of the Niagara River around the Falls, which ebb and flow according to the tourism calendar.

Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the technological feats and cross-border politics that facilitated the transformation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774864222
• ISBN13: 9780774864220
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"