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Definition of water power in English: water powernoun mass nounPower that is derived from the weight or motion of water, used as a force to drive machinery. 水力 Example sentencesExamples - New Lanark was dependent on water power rather than steam and was filled with workers who had to be literally imported into the area.
- The city's first electricity was produced by water power from the power station, which is now the Mill pub, and gas was piped from the Gas Works in the St Paul's area of the city.
- During the early nineteenth century steam engines gradually replaced water power as the favored source of power for manufacturing, and by 1899 steam engines were producing over eight million horsepower of energy for industrial uses.
- Capitalism existed before the Industrial Revolution, but its development was hampered by technologies limited to water power and a lack of surplus labor.
- Later, before the use of steam power, wind was used to power grain mills, oil presses, irrigation and drainage pumps in areas such as Holland, where climate or geography prevented the use of water power.
- For example, if the United States financed projects in Indonesia to generate electricity from water power, it could record the emissions avoided in Indonesia as its contribution to lowering carbon levels.
- His idea was to use wind power and water power to operate pumps.
- Soon after cotton yarn was first spun by water power in 1790 at Slater Mill on the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, cotton mills began to spring up along the banks of rivers throughout Rhode Island.
- It was easier to devise machines to spin cotton than wool, and the desire to build cotton mills with powered machinery often entailed a move into remote upland districts to obtain water power, which caused problems in recruiting labour.
- The Abbey covered a greater area right down to the river, possibly including the site of Martin's Distillery as all European monasteries of that era used water power for grinding corn and wheat.
- The benefits of water power plus plentiful labor and building materials would have been obvious to any industrious resident with the requisite funds.
- There are other ways of conserving our energy, such as water power, and nuclear power stations, which the Government seem to be closing down.
- When people started coming, they would say, ‘It's lovely, but why aren't you using the water power?’
- Before this many factories depended on water power and were therefore sited in the countryside near swiftly flowing streams, where transport was difficult; moreover, production was always dependent upon the weather.
- Steam engines were used first for pumping water from mines, and then in providing mechanical power for textile mills - hitherto driven by water power.
- Personally, I would like to see an organic cafe powered by solar energy and water power.
- While Worcester had 7500 residents in 1840, its industrial development was hindered by lack of water power.
- This is the estate of the First Lord Armstrong and it features the first house to be lit by electricity generated by water power as well as around 900 acres of grounds with 40 miles of drives.
- Some industrial developments, for example, coal-mining and some manufacturing using water power, occurred in places where there was no previous settlement.
- Large-scale water power and dam construction has brought big changes.
Synonyms energy, electrical power, nuclear power, solar power, steam power
Derivativesadjective During the 1850s it replaced earlier machines in most water-powered factories. Example sentencesExamples - The production of textiles, which changed so dramatically later in the nineteenth century with the advent of fully integrated water-powered mills, also required intimate knowledge and direct use of nature.
- One illustrates an upper-level millstone powered by a lower-level horizontal waterwheel; the other describes a water-powered reciprocator working a flour sifter to the right of the central flour mill.
- By 1840, a locally financed firm of British machinists adopted water-powered machines, to make woolen and merino shirts and drawers like those of their native Leicester.
- Some of the old water-powered mills along New England's rivers, where generations of workers toiled for paltry wages, have been turned into upscale restaurants and shops.
Definition of water power in US English: water powernounˈwɔdər ˌpaʊ(ə)r Power that is derived from the weight or motion of water, used as a force to drive machinery. 水力 Example sentencesExamples - New Lanark was dependent on water power rather than steam and was filled with workers who had to be literally imported into the area.
- Soon after cotton yarn was first spun by water power in 1790 at Slater Mill on the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, cotton mills began to spring up along the banks of rivers throughout Rhode Island.
- During the early nineteenth century steam engines gradually replaced water power as the favored source of power for manufacturing, and by 1899 steam engines were producing over eight million horsepower of energy for industrial uses.
- While Worcester had 7500 residents in 1840, its industrial development was hindered by lack of water power.
- The benefits of water power plus plentiful labor and building materials would have been obvious to any industrious resident with the requisite funds.
- Some industrial developments, for example, coal-mining and some manufacturing using water power, occurred in places where there was no previous settlement.
- His idea was to use wind power and water power to operate pumps.
- This is the estate of the First Lord Armstrong and it features the first house to be lit by electricity generated by water power as well as around 900 acres of grounds with 40 miles of drives.
- Later, before the use of steam power, wind was used to power grain mills, oil presses, irrigation and drainage pumps in areas such as Holland, where climate or geography prevented the use of water power.
- Steam engines were used first for pumping water from mines, and then in providing mechanical power for textile mills - hitherto driven by water power.
- Large-scale water power and dam construction has brought big changes.
- Personally, I would like to see an organic cafe powered by solar energy and water power.
- When people started coming, they would say, ‘It's lovely, but why aren't you using the water power?’
- For example, if the United States financed projects in Indonesia to generate electricity from water power, it could record the emissions avoided in Indonesia as its contribution to lowering carbon levels.
- There are other ways of conserving our energy, such as water power, and nuclear power stations, which the Government seem to be closing down.
- Before this many factories depended on water power and were therefore sited in the countryside near swiftly flowing streams, where transport was difficult; moreover, production was always dependent upon the weather.
- It was easier to devise machines to spin cotton than wool, and the desire to build cotton mills with powered machinery often entailed a move into remote upland districts to obtain water power, which caused problems in recruiting labour.
- The city's first electricity was produced by water power from the power station, which is now the Mill pub, and gas was piped from the Gas Works in the St Paul's area of the city.
- Capitalism existed before the Industrial Revolution, but its development was hampered by technologies limited to water power and a lack of surplus labor.
- The Abbey covered a greater area right down to the river, possibly including the site of Martin's Distillery as all European monasteries of that era used water power for grinding corn and wheat.
Synonyms energy, electrical power, nuclear power, solar power, steam power
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