One of the earliest examples of almost modern factory layout, designed for easy material handling, was the Bridgewater Foundry.

The first successful canal was the Bridgewater Canal in North West England, which opened in 1761 and was mostly funded by The 3rd Duke of Bridgewater.

* Joseph was born about 1628 and died in Bridgewater on February 8, 1696 / 7.

One notable critic of the Bridgewater Treatises was Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote Criticism.

The document was circulated, and Charles Babbage incorporated extracts in his ninth and unofficial Bridgewater Treatise, which postulated laws set up by a divine programmer.

By 1941, U. S. Route 22 was moved off the Route 28 alignment in Phillipsburg, with U. S. Route 22 Alternate ( now Route 122 ) taking its place, as well as east of Bridgewater Township, where it was realigned to follow Route 28-29 Link and Route 29 to Newark.

In the 1953 renumbering of state highways, which eliminated long concurrencies between U. S. and state highways, the western terminus of Route 28 was cut back to its current location with U. S. Route 22 in Bridgewater Township, with the designation west of there dropped in favor of U. S. Route 22 and U. S. Route 22 Alternate.

Anderson was born in Bridgewater, South Dakota, on February 22, 1934.

When he was 14, he ordered his first guitar from an Eaton's department store catalogue for $ 5. 95, and played his first show in a church basement in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia at age 16.

The 29-letter name was noted in an 1882 book, History of the Towns of New Milford and Bridgewater, 1703 – 1882, by Samuel Orcutt.

The University Choir was recently in Ghana under the invitation of Morgan State alumni and US ambassador to Ghana Mrs. Pamela Bridgewater.

Owen was taken from her and raised by the monks and according to his nephew Henry VII's personal historian Vergil the child was raised as a monk by the name Edward Bridgewater where he lived until his death in 1502.

Plainfield was first settled in 1770, primarily by settlers from the town of Bridgewater, and was officially incorporated as a district within the Town of Cummington in 1785, and as a town on June 15, 1807.

It was a part of Olde Bridgewater, as the " East Parish " founded in 1723, until it officially separated from Bridgewater and incorporated on June 14, 1823.

West Bridgewater was first settled in 1651 as a part of Olde Bridgewater.

The town separated from Bridgewater, Massachusetts and was officially incorporated in 1822, the second of the three communities to separate from Bridgewater ( after North Bridgewater, now Brockton, and before East Bridgewater ) over the span of three years.

Bridgewater Township was chartered in 1749.

Nine years later, the school was named Bridgewater College and chartered by the Commonwealth of Virginia to grant undergraduate degrees.

Besides flathead bronze screws, silicon bronze Stronghold nails ( made by Independent Nail & Packing Co., Bridgewater, Mass. ) are used extensively in assembly and Weldwood resorcinol glue is used in all the joints.

The factory grounds were bordered by the Bridgewater Canal and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

The opening of the Sankey Canal in 1757, followed by the Bridgewater Canal in 1761, which halved the price of coal in Liverpool and Manchester England, respectively, triggered a period of " canal mania " in Britain so that between 1760 and 1820 over one hundred canals were built.

As of June 30, 2011, the largest hedge funds by worldwide assets were Bridgewater Associates ( US $ 58. 9 billion ), Man Group ( US $ 39. 2 billion ), Paulson & Co. ( US $ 35. 1 billion ), Brevan Howard ( US $ 31 billion ), and Och-Ziff ( US $ 29. 4 billion ).

* Babbage, C., The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise ; Murray, 1837 ( reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009 ; ISBN 978-1-108-00000-0 )

Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design ; Bridgewater Treatises, W. Pickering, 1833 ( reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009 ; ISBN 978-1-108-00088-8 )

As Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man ; Bridgewater Treatises, W. Pickering, 1834 ( reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009 ; ISBN 978-1-108-00072-7 )

As Manifested in the Creation of Animals and in Their History, Habits and Instincts ; Bridgewater Treatises, W. Pickering, 1835 ( reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009 ; ISBN 978-1-108-00073-4 )

Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature ; Bridgewater Treatises, Faulder, 1803 ( reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009 ; ISBN 978-1-108-00355-1 )

• LibriVox free audiobook of Dr. Esperanto's International Language: Introduction and Complete Grammar ( English translation of " Unua Libro " by R. H. Geoghegan, 1889 ), mp3 or ogg files, read by Nicholas James Bridgewater http :// librivox. org / dr-esperantos-international-language-introduction-and-complete-grammar-by-ll-zamenhof /

Newcomers from in and out of state have populated new luxury communities such as the Preserve at Quail Woods by Southern Crafted Homes, Citrus Trace, Saddlewood, Brooksville, Bridgeview, Watergrass, Villages of Wesley Chapel, Seven Oaks, Meadow Pointe, Chapel Pines, Bridgewater, Northwood, Saddlebrook and Lexington Oaks.

The roughly trapezoidal-shaped town is bordered by Brockton and West Bridgewater to the east, Taunton and Raynham to the south, Norton to either side of its southwest corner, Mansfield to the west, and Sharon and Stoughton to the north.

The lands that would become East Bridgewater were first settled by Europeans in 1630 as an outgrowth of the Plymouth and Duxbury plantations.

The town is bordered by Whitman to the north, Hanson to the east, Halifax to the southeast, Bridgewater to the south, West Bridgewater to the west, and Brockton to the northwest.

On the national level, East Bridgewater is a part of Massachusetts's 9th congressional district, and has been represented since 2001 by Stephen Lynch.

On the state level, East Bridgewater is represented by Geoff Diehl in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a part of the Seventh Plymouth district, which includes the towns of Abington and Whitman.

Bridgewater has one elementary school, George H. Mitchell Elementary ( south and west of the town center, formerly known as Bridgewater Elementary ), which serves students from kindergarten through grade three.

* George Leonard Andrews, ( 1828 – 1899 ), born in Bridgewater, noted United States Army officer, engineer, and educator

In February of that year, he escaped with two fellow inmates ( one of them a bank robber named George Harrison from Westford MA ) from Bridgewater State Hospital, triggering a full scale manhunt.

Mrs. Everett Bridgewater was arrested at her home in Indianapolis and sentenced to two to fourteen years ; James Robbins arrested at Lebanon, Indiana ; Marion “ Red ” Smith arrested at Indianapolis ; George Frazer arrested at Marion ; and Robert Morse arrested at Indianapolis were all given sentences of between ten and twenty years ; and Mrs. Emily Morse pled guilty and was given a sentence from two to fourteen years.

The Concerts showcased Dee Dee Bridgewater, Sheila E, the Oliver Jones Trio, George Sampounidis Justin Hines, Kitorah, Tony Deblois, Kat Dyson, Rhonda Smith Ma Li, Taylor Dayne and others.

* 1977: Conversation ( with Cecil Bridgewater, Slide Hampton, George Adams, Albert Dailey, Michael Carvin, Lawrence Killian )

* 1990: Live at Sweet Basil with George Cables, Ricky Ford, Cecil Bridgewater, Ronnie Burrage, Roland Hanna

Dee Dee Bridgewater, Wynton Marsalis, Hank Jones ( did not appear due to health concerns ), Pete Seeger, Susan Tedeschi, Conrad Herwig, Randy Brecker, Vijay Iyer, Dave Brubeck, John Patitucci, Brian Blade, George Duke, Jason Moran, Regina Carter, Kurt Elling, Russell Malone, Esperanza Spalding, Soulive w / John Scofield, and Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White and more.

* George Bridgewater and Nathan Twaddle, in the men's coxless pair, defeated South Africa with Italy third.