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The First Niagara Falls Power Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Harold I. Sharlin
Harold I. Sharlin
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Assistant Professor of Economics and History atPolytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
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Abstract

Harnessing the Niagara for large-scale commercial power exploitation was an entrepreneurial feat of major dimensions. The project also demonstrated the successful application of science to an economic problem. American investors proudly declined European financial assistance, but only too willingly solicited the advice of Europe's leading engineers.

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Business History Review , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , Spring 1961, pp. 59 - 74
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1961

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