Niagara Falls State Park

continued his own brand of progressivism, calling it the Square Deal. Protecting the public with the Meat Inspection Act of 1906, requiring all food and drugs to clearly state the materials used. Establishing the new U.S. Forestry Service, which would establish eighteen national monuments, five national parks, and one hundred fifty national parks. The passage of the Elkins Act of 1903 and Hepburn Act of 1906 kept railroad prices…

1893 World’s Columbian Exposition was the AC system, in which Tesla demonstrated his system there. After the creation of the AC electrical system, in 1895, Tesla designed, along with General Electric, the first AC hydroelectric power plants in Niagara Falls, New York. The next year, it was used to power the city of Buffalo, which was the turning point in which AC powered units became the world’s central form of power. His last significant invention was the Tesla Coil in the late 19th century,…

that Tesla might have been owed. While times were good the money that Tesla might have earned didn’t seem to matter. In these times Tesla invented the Tesla coil (1891), his AC motor design was being used to build a hydroelectric power plant at Niagara Falls which powered all of Buffalo, New York. He also continued his research into AC motors, as well as researching x-ray and radio. But eventually, times began to turn sour. By 1895 Westinghouse no longer needed him so Tesla lost his income as a…

Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts had enacted a bill that would allow the state to the redistricted in a way that would favor the party he represented, the Democratic-Republican Party, over the Federalists. When the redistricting plan was brought to the press, the term was created using Governor Gerry 's name and the term salamander after one district in Boston appeared to look like a salamander. In recent elections, the United States has not gone through a redistricting process since the last…

Throughout history, both the portrayal and perception of wilderness has evolved drastically. What was long described as a godless, desolate wasteland later became a focal point for artists who romanticized wilderness, modifying common outlook on such places. Due to their complexity, scarcity, and embodiment of spirituality, wilderness was now something to be valued and treasured. Then with the turn of the 19th century, the Manifest Destiny doctrine took hold, characterizing wilderness as a thing…

Lamp, most people acknowledge Thomas Edison. (Krystek, 2015) But just as influential to the process, possibly even more so then Edison, was Nikola Tesla, who’s impact on contemporary society is extensive far beyond the Lamp. Tesla moved to the United States in 1884, at the age of 28, and by 1887 had filed for a number of patents that included everything vital to produce electricity using alternating current. At “the end of the 19th century it was a war of currents -- with Tesla acting as one…