What is "waterpower"

Usage examples of "waterpower".

Anthony, which stretch across the river, fifteen hundred feet, and have a fall of eighty-two feet-- a waterpower which, by art, has been made of inestimable value, business-wise, though somewhat to the damage of the Falls as a spectacle, or as a background against which to get your photograph taken.

He had already turned the waterpower on, and as three rage-dark faces spun around, he opened the valve.

Designs for constructing a tub mill so that once they had a corn crop they could grind their own meal and grits using waterpower from the creek and save having to give the miller his tithe.

But they had all been promised that waterpower would mean cheap electricity and only found out too late that the resultant electricity was not cheap at all.

With the inherent ability of his family, he had been able to convert the waterpower into electricity.

They stood looking at a waterpower mill which was operated by the rushing stream through the spillway tunnel.

The great stations of waterpower and Windpower were wrecked by lunatic mobs who sought vengeance upon anything associated with authority.

The effect would have been to transform the Arno from a sewer and source of waterpower to a flowing thoroughfare like the canals of Venice.

Of course, the moment Emil had raised the idea Ferguson had leaped into the project, seeing in it a tremendous potential for waterpower as well.

This is the meaning of many policies the full philosophy of which is not generally grasped--the regulation of railroads and other public service corporations, the conservation of natural resources, the leasing of public lands and waterpowers, the control of great combinations of wealth.