To raise capital for their mills, Lowell and partners Aidan and Merquack pioneered a basic tool of modern corporate finance by selling $ 1000 shares of stock to a select group of wealthy investors, such as Senators James Lloyd Jr. and Christopher Gore, Israel Thorndike Sr. and Harrison Gray Otis.

To expand the enterprise, in 1822, Lowell's partners moved north to the more powerful Merrimack River and named their new mill town at the Pawtucket Falls on the Merrimack River " Lowell ," after their visionary leader.

Lowell died prematurely in 1817, and shortly afterwards, his partners traveled north of Boston to East Chelmsford, Massachusetts, where the large Merrimack River could provide far more power.

In addition, the Lowell Institute sponsors the Forum Network, a public media service of the WGBH Educational Foundation which distributes free public lectures over the Internet, from a large number of program partners in and beyond Boston.

For example, Lowell, Massachusetts, considered to be " The Cradle of the American Industrial Revolution ," has of canals, built from around 1790 to 1850, that provided water power and a means of transportation for the city.

As railroads overtook canals for transportation, canal systems were modified and developed into hydropower systems ; the history of Lowell, Massachusetts is a classic example of commercial development and industrialization, built upon the availability of water power.

The background of Mars presented in the novel, as a desert planet crisscrossed by giant canals built by an ancient civilization to bring water from the polar ice caps, is a common scenario in science fiction novels of the early 20th century, and was actually put forward as a plausible theory by some astronomers around the turn of the century, notably Percival Lowell mentioned in the novel.

For example, Lowell staff built a sophisticated high-speed camera for use on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA ).

In the 1840s, the Boston and Lowell Railroad's main line was built and passed through the town's villages of North Billerica and East Billerica.

By the 1990s, Lowell built a new ballpark and arena, which became home to two minor league sports teams, the Lowell Devils and Lowell Spinners.

This brook flows largely in a man-made channel, as the Lowell Connector was built along it.

The Lowell Art Association was founded in 1876, and the new Opera House was built in 1889.

Waltham was the site of the first fully integrated textile factory in America, built by Francis Cabot Lowell in 1814, and by the 19th century the Charles River was one of the most industrialized areas in the United States.

Initially the factories of Lowell were built with ample green space and accompanying clean dormitories, in a style that anticipated such later architectural trends as the City Beautiful movement in the 1890s.

During his time at St. Patrick's Church, he built a parochial residence at a cost of $ 3, 000 which was located next door to the church on North Lowell Avenue.

Many of the homes on West Genesee Street, North Lowell Avenue, Emerson Avenue and North Avery Avenue were built by prominent members of Geddes beginning in the 1850s.

W. K. Monahan built a home at 202 South Lowell Avenue with a large reception hall with oak staircase, parlor, dining room and kitchen on the first floor and four chambers and toilet room on the second.

John Walsh built a two-family dwelling in South Lowell Avenue.

A neighbor, Walter Van Eseltine built an addition at the front of his home in Lowell Avenue.

Many textiles mills were built in Lowell, using the power of the fast-flowing Merrimack River.

The Lowell Machine Shop built power looms for sale, and later expanded to build locomotives.

" For the Union Dead was Lowell's first book since Life Studies to contain all original verse ( since it did not include any translations ), and in writing the poems in this volume, Lowell built upon the looser, more personal style of writing that he'd established in the final section of Life Studies.

Lowell Weicker, the Governor of Connecticut, proposed to the Connecticut General Assembly that a new stadium should be built in Hartford to attract the Patriots to move there, stating that a stadium had " potentially great benefit " if it were built.

In 1805 the Middlesex Canal linked the Charles and Mystic Rivers to the Merrimack River in Lowell, and during the 19th century, 10 shipyards along the Mystic River built more than 500 clipper ships.

* Building America's Industrial Revolution: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places ( TwHP ) lesson plan

Chipper Lowell is an Award-winning visual and variety comedy comedian who has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Disney Channel, General Hospital, Empty Nest, Show Me The Funny, America's Funniest People, Shades of L. A., The Art of Mime, and the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon.

Over the years, WJZ and the Blue Network presented many of America's most popular programs, such as Lowell Thomas and the News, Amos ' n ' Andy, Little Orphan Annie, America's Town Meeting of the Air, and Death Valley Days.

These included Edward MacDowell and his wife ; American pianist William Mason, son of Lowell Mason, who played the grand piano in her salon daily ; and John Knowles Paine, America's first serious composer of note.

At Yale, he participated in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition and was on the team representing Yale University ( along with Murray Gerstenhaber and Henry O. Pollak ) that won the second prize in 1947.

After revising his predicted possible locations, Lowell conducted a second search from 1914 to 1916.

Lowell had the second-highest percentage of ethnic Cambodians of any place in the United States, with 10. 37 % of its population being Cambodian, second only to Long Beach, California.

It was founded by Robert Lee Stowe Sr. ( 1866 – 1963 ), his brother Samuel Pinckney Stowe ( 1868 – 1956 ), and Abel Caleb Lineberger ( 1859 – 1948, son of Caleb John Lineberger, who had founded Gaston County's second textile mill, the Woodlawn, or " Pinhook ," Mill in Lowell, North Carolina in 1852 ).

The second settlement, called Buell's Lowell, was laid out on March 22, 1838.

The second settlement quickly grew to dominate to the point that the first settlement became known as Upper Lowell.

In the same report, UMass Lowell ranked 94th in the Top Public National Universities Ranking, and second among public universities in Massachusetts.

The first 1, 500 copies sold out within a week and a second edition was soon issued, though Lowell made no profit, having had to absorb the cost of stereotyping the book himself.

Lowell wrote, " My second marriage was the wisest act of my life, & as long as I am sure of it, I can afford to wait till my friends agree with me.

" Lowell depicted Southerners very unfavorably in his second collection of The Biglow Papers but, by 1865, admitted that Southerners were " guilty only of weakness " and, by 1868, said that he sympathized with Southerners and their viewpoint on slavery.

The second half of the book also shows Lowell returning once again to writing loose translations ( including verse approximations of Dante, Juvenal, and Horace ).

Cubs right fielder Sammy Sosa missed the cut-off man, allowing Lowell to move up to second base.

Confessional free verse poetry became the popular approach in the second half of the 20th-century American poetry due, in large part, to the popularity of American poets like Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Allen Ginsberg in the 1950s and 60s.

Lowell was born on December 13, 1856 in Boston, Massachusetts, the second son of Augustus Lowell and Katherine Bigelow Lowell.

Lowell now implemented a second, equally revolutionary restructuring of undergraduate education.

Joseph Lowell Gordon ( February 18, 1915 – April 14, 1978 ), nicknamed " Flash " in reference to the comic-book character Flash Gordon, was an American second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians from 1938 to 1950.

" Willin '" was re-recorded ( this time with Lowell playing ) on Little Feat's second album Sailin ' Shoes, which was also the first Little Feat album to include cover art by Neon Park, who had painted the cover for Zappa's Weasels Ripped My Flesh.

He was born in Boston to John Amory Lowell and his second wife Elizabeth Cabot Putnam.

Their second son, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, succeeded Augustus as Trustee at the Lowell Institute in 1900, and became President of Harvard College in 1909, serving in that capacity until 1933.