Water Power For The Farm And Country Home

"Water Power for the Farm and Country Home" by David R. Cooper was a book that aimed to help those living in rural areas. Though much of the book's information can now be found elsewhere, Cooper's work is still worth reading. His mastery with words makes the book intriguing and well-worth reading, even years after its publication.

This special re-print edition of "Water Power For The Farm and Country Home," written in 1911 by David R. Cooper is an essential for all Industrial Age Engineering history enthusiasts. Filled with antique photographs of old water-powered electric machinery, pumps, turbines and othe components from gadgetry of the day. Note : This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some characters and images might suffer from slight blurring, imperfections or minor shadows in the page background. This book appears exactly as it did when it was first printed.

Excerpt from Water Power for the Farm and Country Home In the course of its general investigations of the water powers of the State, the Water Supply Commission has here tofore confined its attention to the possibilities for large develop ments, and the regulation of the How of rivers and large creeks. No previous or general investigation of small creeks and brooks and their power possibilities has been made, not because they were considered unimportant, but because the Commission believes that if the State decides to take an active part in the regulation of the flow of streams and the development and conservation of water powers, it should confine its first activities to the larger units, leaving the smaller opportunities for later examination and for private and individual development. However, no comprehensive system of conservation can meet with universal favor unless it contemplates the prevention of waste, great or small, and wherever found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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"Challenging traditional scholarship on the New Deal, the book reinterprets the history of rural electrification. It tells the previously unacknowledged story of how private power companies, with allies in land-grant universities, engendered social and technical innovations in the 1920s and early 1930s that enabled growing numbers of farmers to obtain electrical service, well before the creation of Depression-era government programs"--