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Title: Introduction to Economic History 1750-1950 by G. D. H. Cole ISBN: 0-333-01373-5 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 01 January, 1960 Format: Hardcover

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Comment: "In antebellum America water used for power ranked in value among such natural resources as agricultural land, timber, navigable rivers, and deposits of coal and metal ores. Waterpower, available to nearly every community, was used to ease many daily burdens and to improve the living standards of the long succession of pioneer settlements. During the pre-railroad years, waterpower was a crucial factor in the advance of American industrialization, especially in water-rich New England. Here is a complete account of waterpower in the United States from colonial times to its gradual decline after 1900. The volume is an important contribution to technological, economic, and social history. The author examines closely the water mills of early settlements and small communities, explains the design and construction of various types of waterwheels and discusses the importance of waterpower in the social structure of the time. He chronicles carefully the transition from simple waterwheels used primarily for the production of grain and lumber to waterpower used in manufacturing, especially for the burgeoning textile industry. Hunter also discusses the complex development of the turbine, which cleared the way for the development of hydroelectricity, the transmission and distribution of waterpower, and the eventual shift to steam power as manufacturing established itself in large industrial cities. Although waterpower's usefulness diminished progressively from the 1870s, it left behind a record of industrial and social achievement of notable importance to this country -- one hardly approached in any other nation of the Western world."