waterpower
- a variation of water power.
Example Sentences
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Using waterpower to drive its machines, the company concentrated carding, spinning, and weaving in a single structure in Waltham, Massachusetts.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
Copying their success, textile factories spread rapidly to other waterpower sites throughout New England.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
This machine used the waterpower from rapid streams to drive spinning wheels.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
In 1929 a waterpower tunnel was begun at Gauley Bridge along the forest-fringed New River in southern West Virginia, with cheap transient labor, black and white, from mountain districts as far away as Georgia.
From Time Magazine Archive
In accordance with the Mississippi flood law Army engineers are making investigations and surveys on other streams throughout the country with a view to flood control, navigation, waterpower, and irrigation.
From State of the Union Address by Coolidge, Calvin
