Hydroelectricity Collection

Roosevelt Dam, Arizona - Salt River Project of Bureau of Reclamation, Dedication Scene, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Roosevelt Dam, Arizona - Salt River Project of Bureau of Reclamation, Dedication Scene, 1912. Dam named after President Theodore Roosevelt, serving mainly for irrigation, water supply

Minidoka Project - U.S. Reclamation Bureau. Minidoka Dam, One Mile Long...Idaho, 1912 Creator: Harris & Ewing
Minidoka Project - U.S. Reclamation Bureau. Minidoka Dam, One Mile Long. Power Plant in Distance, Minidoka, Idaho, 1912

Alternators made in Budapest, Hungary, in the power generating hall of a... between 1905-1915
Alternators made in Hungary, in the power generating hall of a hydroelectric station in Iolotan on the Murghab River, between 1905 and 1915. Factory Interior with Electrical Generators

Generator hall of the powerhouse, Chickamauga Dam, Tenn. 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Generator hall of the powerhouse, Chickamauga Dam, Tenn. The dam, located near Chattanooga, 471 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, has an authorized power installation of 81, 000 kw

Checking the alignment of a turbine shaft at the top of the guide... Watts Bar Dam, Tenn. 1942
Checking the alignment of a turbine shaft at the top of the guide bearing in TVAs hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tenn

Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating seromotor in TVA s... Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee, 1942
Tightening a nut on a guide vane operating seromotor in TVAs hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River

Central tower from which cable buckets carry materials used in... of Shasta dam, CA, 1942. Creator: Russell Lee
Central tower from which cable buckets carry materials used in the construction of Shasta dam, California

Shasta dam under construction, California, 1942. Creator: Russell Lee
Shasta dam under construction, California

Wilson Dam, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, c1930s. Creator: Unknown
Wilson Dam, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, c1930s. Construction of the Wilson Dam on the Tennessee River began in 1918 and was completed in 1924 under Hugh L

Breakwater, Ramapo, 1874. Creator: A. Measom
Breakwater, Ramapo, 1874. Dam on the Ramapo, a tributary of the Pompton River, northern New Jersey, USA....the Ramapo River, a stream which finds its way between high hills

Goulburn Weir, Wahring, 1901. Creator: Unknown
Goulburn Weir, Wahring, 1901. Goulburn Weir built c1887-1891 across the Goulburn River was the first major diversion structure built for irrigation development in Australia

Valley of the Bow River, Alberta, Canada, c1897. Creator: Unknown
Valley of the Bow River, Alberta, Canada, c1897. Fur trader James Gaddy and the Hudsons Bay Company explorer David Thompson are considered the first Europeans to see the Bow River

Genesee Falls, Rochester, N. Y. c1897. Creator: Unknown
Genesee Falls, Rochester, N.Y. c1897. The Pont De Rennes bridge over one of three waterfalls on the Genesee River, used to power industry with falling water

Spokane Falls, Washington, c1897. Creator: Unknown
Spokane Falls, Washington, c1897.The Monroe Street Dam was completed in 1890, and was the first dam built on the Spokane River

Air View of Saluda Dam showing Lake Murray, S. C. 1942. Creator: Unknown
Air View of Saluda Dam showing Lake Murray, S.C. 1942. From " Souvenir of the Beautiful Carolinas". [Curt Teich & Co. Chicago, 1942]

Genesee Falls, Rochester, New York State, USA, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Genesee Falls, Rochester, New York State, USA, c1900. The High Falls on the Genesee River powered Rochesters industrial development. The falls continue to provide hydroelectric power

Stornoway Water Wheel, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, 2009. This water wheel is part of a restored watermill originally built in 1816 but destroyed by fire in 1890

The Boulder Dam, USA, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric station, USSR, 1970s. Built on the Yenisei River in southern Siberia, the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectic plant is the sixth largest hydrolectric plant in the world

A artist from Linz painting the Limberg Dam, Austria, c1947-1951. The dam, part of a large hydroelectricity project, was built with the assistance of the Marshall plan

Umberto Bratti, a Donzere-Mondragon canal and power worker, 1952. The Donzere-Mondragon dam on the River Rhone in France was built in 1952. It provides hydroelectric power

Aswan Dam, Egypt, 20th century. In the late 19th century, the growth of population and agricultural production in the lower Nile Valley led to the decision to build a dam across the river at Aswan

Various representations of hydrodynamics, Wurtemberg, c1850. 2) Fountain: 3) Persian wheel or Noria: 4) Archimedes Screw: 5) Chain pump: 6&7) Suction and force pumps: 8) Fire engine: 10, 11

Electricity, c1850. Various aspects of electricity and electrical apparatus, including attraction and repulsion (1, 2), Leyden jar and condenser (6, 7)

Hydroelectric power station near Tashkent, at that point in the USSR

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