Record Details
page 4
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 4 |
| Relation | Power and the Pacific Northwest |
| Date | 2005-04-20 to 2005-05-09 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 283.37 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale and 48>24 RGB color tiffs edited in Photoshop CS 8.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, grayscale bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | resource development in this country took place soon after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony placed water wheels in streams to power grist mills and textile factories. These factories were so efficient that by the early 1700's textile production in the Colonies had increased to a point where the English Parliament, fearing competition, passed an Act prohibiting the exportation from England of water power machinery for the manufacturing of textiles in... |
| Identifier | http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1929 |
