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Hydro Power, 2014

 File — Box: 7
Identifier: DVD-2005

Scope and Contents

Excerpt from what was originally issued as disc 5 of the Rocky Mountain PBS series Colorado Experience, season 2. Describes how L.L. Nunn saved the mining business in Telluride, Colorado by financing the Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant, the first in the world to generate alternating current electric power for industrial purposes. Soon hydroelectric plants appeared across the United States and the world.

Dates

  • 2014

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

53 cubic feet.

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

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