Sentence examples for waterpower from from inspiring English sources

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

Upstream the waterpower from the river played an important part in the industrialization of the Ulster linen industry.

Waterpower from these falls was important in the siting of local cotton mills in the early 19th century, and there are now some small hydroelectric stations.

Beginning in the early 19th century, the village grew to become a major centre of cotton textile manufacturing, with an abundance of waterpower from the Merrimack's Pawtucket Falls (32 feet [10 metres]) and the completion of the Middlesex Canal link to Boston in 1803.

There, to take advantage of waterpower available from the falls of the Rhine, Héroult built his first aluminum-bronze production facility, which later became the Aluminium-Industrie-Aktien-Gesellschaft.

The falls provided waterpower for early 19th-century milling operations.

Ticino has no mineral resources, but the canton possesses abundant waterpower for internal use and for export.

Joseph River in the 1800s to provide waterpower for industry, is now a whitewater rafting and kayaking course.

The politicians paid homage to Alexander Hamilton, Paterson's founder in 1792, who dreamed of harnessing the Great Falls' waterpower for the fledgling nation's first big manufacturing center.

The site was selected by President George Washington for a federal armoury because of its waterpower potential and was purchased from Harper's heirs in 1796.

Yorkshire entered the Industrial Revolution as a centre of woolen textile manufacturing in the towns of Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Wakefield, and Huddersfield, where rivers flowing from the Pennines provided both waterpower and a means of transport to the seaport of Kingston upon Hull.