Waterpower in Lowell:engineering and industry in nineteenth-century America
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Johns Hopkins University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Baltimore |
Publication Dates: | 2009. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of technology |
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Carrier Form: | xii, 254 p.: ill., maps ; 22 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780801893056 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0801893054 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780801893063 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0801893062 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | TV637 |
CLC: | TV637.12-09 |
Call Number: | TV637.12-09/M257 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. |