Description
Book SynopsisIts clear and instructional discussions of hydraulic technology and engineering principles make it a useful resource for a range of courses, including the history of technology, urban history, and American business history.
Trade ReviewPresents an excellent analysis of the origins, evolution and management of the waterpower system (including a discussion of hydraulic and engineering principles) during the 19th-century industrialization period in the US. Highly recommended. Choice 2010 Malone has made a real contribution by illuminating the technological basis for the rise of the nation's first planned industrial city and by showing how the novel demands posed by that industrial complex contributed to the emergence of hydraulic engineering over the course of the nineteenth century. -- Thomas Dublin New England Quarterly 2010 A work of outstanding scholarship within the field of history of technology and an important contribution to the study of industrialisation. -- Ian West Industrial Archaeology Review 2010 This worthy contribution to historical understanding is also an accessible undergraduate text...It would enliven any survey course in the history of American technology. -- John K. Brown Technology and Culture 2011
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Harnessing the Merrimack River
2. Building a City at the Falls, 1821–1836
3. Expanding the Waterpower, 1836–1847
4. Testing the Waters: Scientific Engineering in Lowell
5. Protecting the People and the Profits, 1847–1865
6. Controlling the System, 1865–1885
Postscript
Notes
Suggested Further Readings
Index
