Tour of Lowell National Historical Park’s “River Transformed” waterpower exhibit

Find out how turbines, gears, and pulleys transformed the potential energy in Lowell’s canal water into kinetic energy that power hundreds of machines. Created for the Tsongas Industrial History Center’s National Endowment for the Humanities Social Movements and Reform in Industrializing America teacher workshop. The Tsongas Industrial History Center is an education partnership between the University of Massachusetts Lowell School of Education and Lowell National Historical Park. TIHC is a hands-on and virtual learning center where students learn about the American Industrial Revolution through activities and tours of the sites where history—and science—happened.