-
Hydropower (from
Ancient Gr**** ὑδρο-, "water"), also
known as
water power or
water energy, is the use of
falling or fast-running
water to
produce electricity...
- A water-fuelled car is an
automobile that
hypothetically derives its
energy directly from water. Water-fuelled cars have been the
subject of
numerous international...
- climate, its
proximity to a
seaport at Liverpool, the
availability of
waterpower from its rivers, and its
nearby coal reserves. The name Manchester, though...
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medieval Islamic world. It has been
argued that the
industrial use of
waterpower had
spread from
Islamic to
Christian Spain,
where fulling mills, paper...
- area by
European descendants, the St.
Anthony Falls have been used for
waterpower. The
first allowed settlers were at Ft. Snelling,
where construction began...
- in
Pawtucket that
Samuel Slater set up
Slater Mill in 1793,
using the
waterpower of the
Blackstone River to
power his
cotton mill. For a while,
Rhode Island...
- 1895). As
waterpower became available it was used to
generate electricity.
After the
third plant was in
operation in 1908, 45% of the
waterpower being used...
-
evidence of
Samarkand first harnessing waterpower in the
production of paper, but
notes that it is not
known if
waterpower was
applied to
papermaking elsewhere...
- to be
sawed and
floated down the river.
After the
lumber dwindled, the
waterpower drove electric generators and
various other enterprises–particularly paper...
- (1997).
Guidelines for
Retirement of Dams and
Hydroelectric Facilities.
Waterpower '97. ASCE. pp. 1248–1256. "Definition of a
Large Dam".
International Commission...
