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Michigan-Lake Superior Power Hydroelectric Plant

Location: Saulte Sainte Marie, MI, USA
Date: 1902
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Creator(s): Clergue, Francis, von Schon, Hans A.E.

This low-head operating plant is representative of nineteenth-century hydropower-plant practice using many small turbines in contrast to twentieth-century use of few large turbines and generators. Its 40,000 horsepower capacity made it the largest in the country using turbines of American design (McCormick-Francis). The contemporary and larger Niagara installation used turbines of French design (Fourneyron). The entrepreneur of this plant was Francis Clergue, a lawyer, who employed as his chief engineer Hans A.E. von Schon, a German immigrant who had served with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Tags: Era: 1900-1909
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Michigan-Lake Superior Power Hydroelectric Plant
Courtesy ASME
Michigan-Lake Superior Power Hydroelectric Plant
Address:
Michigan-Lake Superior Power Hydroelectric Plant
St. Mary's River nr. Ashum St.
Saulte Sainte Marie, MI, USA

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