Fixing Niagara Falls Fixing Niagara Falls
Nature | History | Society

Fixing Niagara Falls

Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2020
September 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
332
Pages
PUBLISHER
UBC Press
SELLER
eBOUND Canada
SIZE
13.8
MB

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