The Mill River Water Unit
Lee B. Hotchkiss and Beverly Stern
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15. Louis C. Hunter,
A History of Industrial Power in the United States
,
1780-1930
,
Volume one
:
Waterpower
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979), xix-xxiv.
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16. David Macaulay,
Mill
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1983). Illustrates the development of waterpower at a particular site. Very simply and clearly done.
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17. The use of direct wheel power can be seen in Ledyard, CT, at the Up-Down Sawmill and in New London at the Olde Town Mill.
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18. Slater Mill restoration in Pawtucket, R.I. provides an authentic, working factory which clearly illustrates elaborate millwork which transfers power from a water wheel to a large number of machines.
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Section IV. Part A.
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19. The history and the geology of the Mill River is organized from information in Hartley,
The History of Hamden
; Osterweis,
Three Centuries of New Haven
; Atwater,
History of the City of New Haven
; East Rock Park Association; interviews with Mrs. C. Hunt, Curator of the Eli Whitney Museum; Mrs. Martha Brewster of the Hamden Historical Society; Mr. Otto Schaefer of the New Haven Water Authority; Dr. Copeland MacClintock of the Peabody Museum; Mrs. Lise Orville; and personnel of the Map Department of Sterling Library of Yale University and of other libraries.