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Those mills were completely different.

I covered hundreds of mills across East Africa, literally dragging that machine across borders, meeting hundreds of millers, and learning from them and co-designing.

Most of these old mills and factories are long gone, and the ones that still survive certainly don’t depend on water for power anymore.

His Pulitzer Prize-winning "Empire Falls," while set in a main mill town, also draws on his roots.

The heyday of low head dam construction was actually in the 1800s when mills and factories often relied on waterpower to drive grinding wheels and other equipment.

In other words, you probably prefer learning new things about the world more than run-of-the-mill television programming.

During the civil war in America when cotton production plunged the cotton mills in Bombay went into overdrive so that they could supply cotton to the rest of the world.

Those papers were written by scientists at the National Institute for Medical Research, a government laboratory in Mill Hill, in suburban North London, about half a mile that way.

Power requirements are vastly different between a sensitive research facility and a suburban residential neighborhood, between a military base and country club golf course, and between a steel mill and a bowling alley.