The power of Snoqualmie Falls / directed by Stephen Sadis ; produced by Sadis Filmworks, Erika Sunmark, Camille Spitzer, Johnna Turiano, Jeri Vaughn ; Puget Sound Energy
At a time when electricity was still in its infancy, civil engineer, Charles Baker, envisioned a plan to build the world's first underground hydro-electric plant beneath the shoulder of Snoqualmie Falls. Baker and his crew drilled down 270 feet of solid rock, dug out a cavern the size of two basketball courts, assembled the massive equipment and strung 27 miles of electrical lines 27 miles to Seattle - all in the span of 16 months. When the switch was thrown in 1899, electricity surged through the lines and the Northwest would never be the same
