The Nikola Tesla Museum, in collaboration with the Niagara Parks Commission, is organizing the exhibition “Nikola Tesla – Spark of Genius” in the premises of the hydroelectric power station on the Canadian side of Niagara (Niagara Parks Power Station), the official opening of which was held on March 7, 2025.
Months of preparation and collaboration between the Nikola Tesla Museum and the Niagara Parks team have resulted in a very important exhibition about one of the greatest inventors of all time, in a place so important to the life and inventions of Nikola Tesla. It was at Niagara Falls that Tesla’s patents set the “wheel” of the Second Industrial Revolution in motion, influencing the development of energy throughout the world and shaping the lives we live today.
The first hydroelectric power station at Niagara, which used as many as nine of Tesla’s patents, was built in 1895 and put into operation in 1896 (Niagara Power Station No.1, later the Adams Power Plant). It was closed and replaced in 1961. The hydroelectric power station on the Canadian side of Niagara, where an exhibition about Nikola Tesla will be held, was built in 1905 (Rankine Generating Station), with generators based on Tesla’s patents.
It operated for a century, and in 2006 it ceased operation, only to be opened to tourists in 2021. Perfectly preserved, this hydroelectric power plant represents a link to one of Nikola Tesla’s most important projects that changed the world.
Niagara Exhibition “Nikola Tesla – Spark of Genius”
The Nikola Tesla Museum, in collaboration with the Niagara Parks Commission, is organizing the exhibition “Nikola Tesla – Spark of Genius” in the premises of the hydroelectric power station on the Canadian side of Niagara (Niagara Parks Power Station), the official opening of which was held on March 7, 2025.
Months of preparation and collaboration between the Nikola Tesla Museum and the Niagara Parks team have resulted in a very important exhibition about one of the greatest inventors of all time, in a place so important to the life and inventions of Nikola Tesla. It was at Niagara Falls that Tesla’s patents set the “wheel” of the Second Industrial Revolution in motion, influencing the development of energy throughout the world and shaping the lives we live today.
The first hydroelectric power station at Niagara, which used as many as nine of Tesla’s patents, was built in 1895 and put into operation in 1896 (Niagara Power Station No.1, later the Adams Power Plant). It was closed and replaced in 1961. The hydroelectric power station on the Canadian side of Niagara, where an exhibition about Nikola Tesla will be held, was built in 1905 (Rankine Generating Station), with generators based on Tesla’s patents.
It operated for a century, and in 2006 it ceased operation, only to be opened to tourists in 2021. Perfectly preserved, this hydroelectric power plant represents a link to one of Nikola Tesla’s most important projects that changed the world.