The river was dammed in places in the 19th century to power mills downstream.
Like the Twelve Mile River dams, many of them are relics of a bygone age: holdovers from the Industrial Revolution built to power mills long defunct for industries that have largely vanished from America.
A method combining a Plackett-Burman design (PBD), the steepest ascent method, and a Box-Behnken design (BBD) was used to evaluate the effects of major treatment process variables, including the soaking solid-liquid ratio, NaOH concentration, soaking temperature, soaking time, stirring rate, ultrasonic power, milling solid-liquid ratio, milling time and milling rate, on the starch isolation.
Although the car used to have its original 4,500 r.p.m. redline sixer, the team substituted a more powerful engine from a 1992 325is when the low-power mill blew up.
Known as black liquor, the byproduct has powered mills since the 1930s.
Paterson, which has about 150,000 people, once thrived because of the river, which powered mills that made textiles, giving the city a worldwide reputation for manufacturing.
Torrington also made brass, and it was one of many textile cities that dotted western New England: rivers abound, and they powered mills.
Bankruptcy and lawsuit documents reveal how waterfalls powered mills that generated tens of thousands of reams a year, while owners tried to replace expensive rag pulp by grinding vats of asbestos, leather and seaweed instead.
The construction of multi-storey steam powered mills followed, which initiated a process of urbanisation and cultural transformation in the region; the population increasingly moved away from farming and domestic weaving in favour of the mechanised production of cotton goods.
