Waterpower in Lowell
Subtitle: hydraulics and technology in nineteenth-century America
By: Patrick M. Malone.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780801893056; 9780801893063
Subjects: Water-power -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History -- 19th century; Hydraulic engineering -- Massachusetts -- Lowell -- History -- 19th century; Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.) -- Power utilization -- History -- 19th century; Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.) -- Power utilization -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Harnessing the Merrimack River; title: Building a city at the falls, 1821-1836; title: Expanding the waterpower, 1836-1847; title: Testing the waters : scientific engineering in Lowell; title: Protecting the people and the profits, 1847-1865; title: Controlling the system, 1865-1885.