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.

Lowell is a city in Benton County, Arkansas, in the United States.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

The Middlesex Canal, which flowed through Billerica between 1795 and 1852, was used to transport goods between Lowell and Boston.

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

Lowell and Cambridge are the county seats of Middlesex County.

The University of Massachusetts Lowell and Middlesex Community College expanded their programs and enrollment.

The nearest community college, Middlesex Community College, has two campuses in nearby Lowell and Bedford.

* MCC Theatre at Middlesex Community College in Lowell, Massachusetts

He took editing jobs with the Middlesex Standard in Lowell, Massachusetts and the Essex Transcript in Amesbury until 1844.

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.

* Middlesex Community College ( Massachusetts ) in Lowell and Bedford, Massachusetts

Dobelle was president of Middlesex Community College in Lowell, Massachusetts from 1987 to 1990, where the library is named after him, and president and chancellor of City College of San Francisco from 1990 to 1995.

One of these roads was the Middlesex Turnpike, the present-day Hampshire Street, which connected Cambridge with Lowell and Boston, bringing regional traffic through the area.

At this point, water was diverted north to Lowell and south to Charlestown to run the Middlesex Canal.

The canal ran from Middlesex Village in East Chelmsford, Massachusetts ( later renamed Lowell ), through several Middlesex County towns.

The Middlesex Canal was used to for transport of raw materials, finished goods, and personnel to and from Lowell.

Investors in the Boston and Lowell Railroad received a charter on June 5, 1830, with no provision for reparations to the Middlesex Canal's investors.

They brought in James Fowle Baldwin, son of Col. Loammi Baldwin, who had engineered the Middlesex Canal, to do the surveying, and charged him with finding a gently sloped path from Lowell to Boston, with few grade crossings and well away from town centers.

The first bridge on the site was known as the Canal Bridge, named after the Middlesex Canal which ran from the Charlestown Mill Pond to Middlesex Village in East Chelmsford Massachusetts ; later p / o Lowell.