"At midnight last night the turning of a switch in the big power house at Niagara Falls completed a circuit which caused the Niagara River to flow uphill, so to speak, by returning a fraction of its resistless energy which had already swept past the gates of Buffalo, back into that city, 27 miles distant. The harness was buckled that hitches the factory wheels of Buffalo to the greatest cataract on Earth"
Niagara Falls Gazette Nov. 16th, 1896
Niagara Falls Gazette Nov. 16th, 1896
On 11/16/1896, the Adams power plant went online and Buffalo received the power from the 3 5,00 volt generators. Then by the turn of the century 7 more 5,000 watt generators were built and the power line spanned 360 miles all the to New York City.