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Niagara Falls Power Company

A grand building with a large waterfall cascading down its center is illuminated at night, with the sign reading "Niagara Falls Power Company."

The consortium, backed by J.P. Morgan and the Vanderbilts, that built the first major hydroelectric station at Niagara Falls. After years of debate over whether to use DC, AC, or compressed air, it awarded the generator contract to Westinghouse in 1893. The plant went live in 1895 and began transmitting 11,000-volt alternating current twenty-six miles to Buffalo a year later.

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