Waterpower in Lowell: Engineering and Industry in Nineteenth-Century America

by Patrick M. Malone

Book Overview

Winner, 2010 Peter Neaverson Award, Association for Industrial Archaeology

Patrick M. Malone demonstrates how innovative engineering helped make Lowell, Massachusetts, a potent symbol of American industrial prowess in the 19th century.

Waterpower spurred the industrialization of the early United States and was the principal power for textile manufacturing until well after the Civil War. Industrial cities therefore grew alongside many...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801893062
• ISBN13: 9780801893063
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 18 to 22 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary