In about 1840, the English industrial chemist Hugh Lee Pattinson traveled to Canada, stopping at Niagara Falls long enough to make the earliest known photograph of the falls, a daguerreotype in the collection of Newcastle University. It was once believed that the small figure standing silhouetted with a top hat was added by an engraver working from imagination as well as the daguerreotype as his source, but the figure is clearly present in the photograph. [53] Because of the very long exposure required, of ten minutes or more, the figure is assumed by Canada's Niagara Parks agency to be Pattinson. [53] The image is left-right inverted and taken from the Canadian side. [54] Pattinson made other photographs of Horseshoe Falls; these were then transferred to engravings to illustrate Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours' Excursions Daguerriennes (Paris, 1841–1864). [55] American Falls frozen over with people on the ice, 1911 Aerial photograph of Niagara Falls, 1931 Patricia Corrigan; Geoffrey H. Nash (2007). Waterfalls. Infobase Publishing. pp.60–. ISBN 978-1-4381-0671-7. The features that became Niagara Falls were created by the Wisconsin glaciation about 10,000 years ago. [11] The retreat of the ice sheet left behind a large amount of meltwater (see Lake Algonquin, Lake Chicago, Glacial Lake Iroquois, and Champlain Sea) that filled up the basins that the glaciers had carved, thus creating the Great Lakes as we know them today. [12] [13] Scientists posit there is an old valley, St David's Buried Gorge, buried by glacial drift, at the approximate location of the present Welland Canal. Watch as Barrel Misses Water Tank: 180-Ft. Drop Ends in Stunt Man's Death". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. January 21, 1985. ISSN 0458-3035 . Retrieved September 20, 2018. Chris was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on June 18, 1949, the second child of Doris Christiansen Van Allsburg and Richard Van Allsburg. His sister Karen was born in 1947.

BBC Radio 3 – The Verb, Emma Donoghue, Hannah Silva, Gary Shteyngart, Roz Goddard, Winning Words". BBC. Niagara River Recreation Trail". Niagara Parks Commission. Archived from the original on March 29, 2007 . Retrieved March 27, 2007.Law, John (June 16, 2017). "Kirk Jones could not survive Falls a second time". Niagara Falls Review. Archived from the original on June 16, 2017 . Retrieved June 16, 2017. She briefly earned money speaking about her experience but was never able to build much wealth. She wrote a memoir and returned to Niagara Falls to sell it. [11] Her manager, Frank M. Russell, ran away with her barrel, and most of her savings were used towards private detectives hired to find it. It was eventually located in Chicago, only to permanently disappear some time later. [ citation needed] This remarkable event had occurred only once before, when an upstream ice jam stopped almost all water flow over Niagara Falls on March 29, 1848. a b c "NYPA Niagara". Nypa.gov. Archived from the original on January 14, 2009 . Retrieved October 16, 2010.

A notable exception is Laika, the first dog to be sent into orbit, whose death during the 3 November, 1957 Sputnik 2 mission was expected from its outset. Soviet Space Dogs In October 1829, Sam Patch, who called himself "the Yankee Leapster", jumped from a high tower into the gorge below the falls and survived; this began a long tradition of daredevils trying to go over the falls. Englishman Captain Matthew Webb, the first man to swim the English Channel, drowned in 1883 trying to swim the rapids downriver from the falls. [84] By 1896, financing from moguls including J. P. Morgan, John Jacob Astor IV, and the Vanderbilts had fueled the construction of giant underground conduits leading to turbines generating upwards of 100,000 horsepower (75 MW), sent as far as Buffalo, 20mi (32km) away. Some of the original designs for the power transmission plants were created by the Swiss firm Faesch & Piccard, which also constructed the original 5,000hp (3.7MW) waterwheels. Private companies on the Canadian side also began to harness the energy of the falls. The Government of Ontario eventually brought power transmission operations under public control in 1906, distributing Niagara's energy to various parts of the Canadian province. Parish, Charles Carlin, Queen of the Mist: The Story of Annie Edson Taylor, First Person Ever To Go Over Niagara Falls and Survive (Empire State Books, Interlaken, New York, 1987, ISBN 0-932334-89-X); p. 47. Severance, Frank H. (1899). "Underground Trails". Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier. Buffalo, NY. p.244. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)

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Macfarlane, Daniel (2020). Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World's Most Famous Waterfall. UBC Press. ISBN 9780774864237. On September 28, 1989, Niagara natives Peter DeBernardi and Jeffery James Petkovich became the first "team" to make it over the falls in a two-person barrel. The stunt was conceived by DeBenardi, who wanted to discourage youth from following in his path of addictive drug use. The pair emerged shortly after going over with minor injuries and were charged with performing an illegal stunt under the Niagara Parks Act. [98] Charles Stephens in his barrel, prior to his fatal July 1920 attempt During the 1950s and 1960s the Soviet space program used dogs for sub-orbital and orbital space flights to determine whether human spaceflight was feasible. In this period, the Soviet Union launched missions with passenger slots for at least 57 dogs. The number of dogs in space is smaller, as some dogs flew more than once. Most survived; the few that died were lost mostly through technical failures, according to the parameters of the test. Sherman Zavitz (City of Niagara Falls Official Historian), "Niagara Falls Moment", CJRN 710 Radio, June 26, 2008, Macfarlane, Daniel (January 9, 2018). "How engineers created the icy wonderland at Niagara Falls". The Washington Post . Retrieved January 9, 2018.

Maid of the Mist completes its final voyage from Canada". CTVNews. October 24, 2013 . Retrieved June 12, 2020. Heritage Comic and Comic Art Signature Auction #821. Heritage Capital Corporation. July 2006. p.229. ISBN 978-1-59967-063-8. [ permanent dead link] Hakim, Danny; Leyden, Liz (June 15, 2012). "Niagara Falls Fills with Excitement in Wait of Tightrope Walk". The New York Times.

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a b > "Saving the Thundering Niagara Falls Bent on Suicide". The New York Times. August 30, 1925 . Retrieved August 23, 2022. Peter Eisenstadt (2005). Encyclopedia of New York State. Syracuse University Press. p.1110. ISBN 978-0-8156-0808-0. a b "THE UPPER NIAGARA BRIDGES". Niagara Falls Museums. February 10, 2001 . Retrieved January 10, 2020.

Wentzell, Tyler (2018). "The Court & the Cataracts". Ontario History. 106: 100–125. doi: 10.7202/1050723ar.Chris Van Allsburg himself has spoken frequently about his interest in the life of Annie Taylor and this provides some of the paratext. Holley, George Washington (1882). The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts. Hodder and Stoughton. Boat trapped for 101 years near edge of Niagara Falls moves after Halloween night storm". USA Today. November 2, 2019 . Retrieved November 3, 2019. Touring by helicopter over the falls, from both the US and the Canadian side, was described by The New York Times as still popular a year after a serious crash. [137] Although The New York Times had long before described attempting to tour the falls as "bent on suicide" [37] and despite a number of fatal crashes, the "as many as 100 eight-minute rides each day" are hard to regulate; two countries and various government agencies would have to coordinate. [138] These flights have been available "since the early 1960s." [137] Media [ edit ] Movies and television [ edit ] The opening title from the theatrical trailer of the 1953 film Niagara.