Sentence examples for * waterpower in from inspiring English sources

By 1906 three-fourths of all developed waterpower in Norway was owned by foreign concerns.

The area offered supplies of sulfur-free coal, limestone, charcoal, and waterpower in the dale, and the River Severn provided water transport.

Subsequent growth was due to accessibility to other ports (especially Philadelphia, 25 miles [40 km] northeast), abundance of waterpower in nearby creeks, and the fertility of nearby farmlands.

It is estimated that about 75 percent of the potential waterpower in the contiguous United States has already been developed, with the drainage area of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest leading in both developed and potential additional power.

The Susquehanna is the potential source of waterpower in the eastern United States; hydroelectric power plants have been built at Holtwood, York Haven, and Safe Harbor, Pa., and Conowingo, Md .Main riverine cities include Binghamton, N.Y., and Wilkes-Barre, Scranton (on the Lackawanna), Williamsport (on the West Branch), and Harrisburg, Pa.

Retiring in 1889, he spent several years in Argentina developing a waterpower plant in Córdoba and a street railway in Buenos Aires.

The article is devoted to the problems of making cargo passages through low-head waterpower developments (those built in XX century in Central Russia).

He was also an innovator in windmill, waterpower, and threshing technology.

The Rothesay cotton-spinning mill, first of its kind to be erected in Scotland, used waterpower from nearby Loch Fad.

When waterpower fell out of favor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the dams deteriorated until they failed or were removed.

The site at Bodwell's Falls (the source of abundant waterpower) was promoted for industry in 1845 by the Essex Company, formed by a group of Boston financiers that included Abbott Lawrence, for whom the town was named.