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Author Malone, Patrick M.

Title Waterpower in Lowell : engineering and industry in nineteenth-century America / Patrick M. Malone
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 254 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of technology
Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of technology.
Contents Harnessing the Merrimack River -- Building a city at the falls, 1821-1836 -- Expanding the waterpower, 1836-1847 -- Testing the waters : scientific engineering in Lowell -- Protecting the people and the profits, 1847-1865 -- Controlling the system, 1865-1885
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Water-power -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History -- 19th century
Hydraulic engineering -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History -- 19th century
Industries -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History -- 19th century
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Hydraulics.
Hydraulic engineering
Industries
Water-power
SUBJECT Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.) -- Power utilization -- History -- 19th century
Subject Massachusetts -- Lowell
United States -- Merrimack River
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780801897351
0801897351