It is the fifth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, Worcester, Springfield, and Lowell.

Cambridge is one of the two county seats of Middlesex County ( Lowell is the other ).

William Gibson ( who wrote an early script for Alien 3 ) seems particularly fascinated: a minor character in Virtual Light, Lowell, is described as having New York XXIV tattooed across his back, and in Idoru a secondary character, Yamazaki, describes the buildings of nanotech Japan as Giger-esque.

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.

Lowell, Massachusetts, utilising of canals and ten thousand horsepower delivered by the Merrimack River, is considered by some to be a major contributor to the success of the American Industrial Revolution.

The Pelvic Pain Urgency / Frequency ( PUF ) Patient Survey, created by C. Lowell Parsons, is a short questionnaire that will help physicians identify if pelvic pain could be coming from the bladder.

There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist.

* In Mass Effect ( 2007 ), an expedition launched by the European Space Agency discovers an ancient cache of advanced technology leftover from an alien race known as the Protheans ( The capitol of Mars is called " Lowell city " probably named after Percival Lowell who fueled the believe in possibility of alien structures on Mars ).

Lowell himself, despite his close association with Pickering, dismissed Planet O out of hand, saying, " This planet is very properly designated " O ", it is nothing at all.

Lowell is buried on Mars Hill near his observatory.

The full history of the subject is described in Harvard professor Julian Lowell Coolidge's Origin of Polar Coordinates.

The screenplay, written by Lowell Ganz, is based on the best-selling novel by Billie Letts.

Today, the city remains an important distribution hub for companies such as Nestlé Purina PetCare and Walgreens, and is home to Lowell Observatory, The U. S. Naval Observatory, the United States Geological Survey Flagstaff Station and Northern Arizona University.

* At Harvard College, Lowell House's annual spring formal is named Bacchanalia.

* 1990 — Wolfgang Krätschmer, Lowell Lamb, Konstantinos Fostiropoulos, and Donald Huffman discovered that Buckminsterfullerene can be separated from soot because it is soluble in benzene.

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.

Dr. Lowell Stone (" Buster ") is quoted in interstitial material in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and referenced as Chief Surgeon at Ceres General.

The generic description of the Martian met by Lowell is similar to the description of the Martians depicted in Stranger in a Strange Land and Red Planet.

Dobro is a registered trademark now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar. 1928 Dobro style 37 tenor guitar from Lowell Levinger's collection

Discovery Channel is also funding the construction of the Discovery Channel Telescope, in partnership with Lowell Observatory.

Lowell Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.

The current trustee of Lowell Observatory is William Lowell Putnam III, grandnephew of founder Percival Lowell and son of long-time trustee Roger Putnam.

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.

* Flagstaff, Arizona, a city, home of the historic Lowell Observatory and Northern Arizona University

In 1826, East Chelmsford becomes incorporated as the town of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first factory city in the United States.

The Northern District consists the city of Lowell and the towns of Billerica, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Westford and Wilmington.

The city of Bisbee now includes the historic downtown Bisbee, as well as the geographically spaced but administratively combined satellite communities of Warren, Lowell, and San Jose.

By 1860, the city was one of the more important industrial centers of the South, earning it the nickname " the Lowell of the South ," in deference to the industrial town in Massachusetts.

Many of these founders clearly envisioned a " Lowell on the Mississippi ", after a major industrial city of Massachusetts ; Moline was marketed as a " Lowell of the West " to potential investors and immigrants.

Located five miles outside of the Great Lakes Basin, Lowell sought permission to pipe in lake water to replace city water drawn from its high fluoride deep wells.

Indiana State Road 2, which connects South Bend and Lowell, passes through the southeast corner of the city.

By 1868, it had surpassed Lowell as the leading textile city in America with over 500, 000 spindles.

Billerica is located about north-northwest of Boston along Route 3, positioning it a short distance from both the Route 128 / Interstate 95 high-technology belt around Boston to the south, and the city of Lowell, six miles ( 10 km ) to the north.

It is located northwest of Boston and, bordering on the city of Lowell, is part of the Greater Lowell metropolitan area.

Until recently, this position was held by Bernard F. Lynch, who has left to become the city manager of Lowell.

Lowell is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA.

Although Wang went bankrupt in 1992, the city continued its cultural focus by hosting the nation's largest free folk festival, the Lowell Folk Festival, as well as many other cultural events.

The Highlands is the most populated neighborhood, with almost a quarter of the city residing here, ZIP Code 01851, and is the southwestern section of the city, bordered to the east by the Lowell Connector and to the north by the railroad.

Downtown, Belvidere, Back Central, and South Lowell make up the 01852 ZIP Code, and are the southeastern sections of the city ( south of the Merrimack River and southeast of the Lowell Connector ).

* Lowell, Bartholomew County, Indiana

* Lowell, Washington County, Ohio

* Lowell, Seneca County, Ohio

* Lowell Township, Polk County, Minnesota

* Lowell Township, Kearney County, Nebraska

Immediately prior to its abolition, the government of Middlesex County consisted of three County Commissioners elected at-large to staggered four-year terms, a County Treasurer elected to a six-year term, a County Sheriff elected to a six-year term and two Registers of Deeds, one for the Northern District at Lowell and the other for the Southern District at Cambridge, both elected to six-year terms.

Middlesex County owned and operated the Superior Courthouses in Cambridge and Lowell and the Middlesex County Hospital in Waltham.

In 1855, the Massachusetts State Legislature created a Registry of Deeds for the Northern District of Middlesex County in Lowell.

Gaston County has fourteen incorporated towns: Belmont, Bessemer City, Cherryville, Cramerton, Dallas, Dellview ( smallest incorporated town in the U. S. with a population of 13 ), Gastonia, High Shoals, Lowell, McAdenville, Mount Holly, Ranlo, Spencer Mountain, and Stanley.

Lowell is a town in West Creek and Cedar Creek townships, Lake County, Indiana, United States.

Lowell is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States.

Acton is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States about twenty-one miles west-northwest of Boston along Route 2 west of Concord and about ten miles ( 18 km ) southwest of Lowell.

Chelmsford () is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts in the Greater Lowell area.

Lowell and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County.

Lowell is a city in Kent County of the U. S. state of Michigan.

Lowell Charter Township is a charter township of Kent County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

Lowell Township is a township in Polk County, Minnesota, United States.

Lowell is a small suburban city in Gaston County, North Carolina, United States, and a suburb of both Charlotte and Gastonia.