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

Lowell, Massachusetts, became a potent emblem of American industrial prowess in the nineteenth century, and Patrick M. Malone's book explains how engineering made that possible. Waterpower drove early American industrialisation and remained the main source of power for textile mills well after the Civil War.

The book also considers how industrial cities grew up alongside the mills, which depended on the rivers that flowed through them. Its concern is with the wider industrial landscape of the period, as much as with the engineering of one town.

Historians of technology and industry, and readers interested in Massachusetts and American manufacturing, will find the study useful.

Bibliographic details: published by Johns Hopkins University Press, with the ISBN-13 9780801893063.