"As one Westinghouse manager congratulated Tesla November 1893" ' it must certainly be gratifying to you to think the largest water power in the world is to be utilized by a system which your ingenuity originated. Your successes are gradually pushing to the front... Let the good work go on.' Inventor of the electrical age
Construction began in October 1893 after Westinghouse electric was awarded the contract to build the generators for the power plant. This was a challenge since they had to build three 5,000 volt generators which then grew to ten generators this was four times higher than any voltage a generator achieved before in America.
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