Creating Tide Mills – Then & Now
November 10 at Beverly’s Cummings Center
Join educators, historians, environmentalists, archeologists and anyone else interested in tidal power and its history on Saturday, November 10, 2018, for the Tide Mill Institute’s 14th annual conference.
Time: 8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Cummings Center, Beverly, MA
Registration fee (includes lunch): $50 per person for non members, $40 for members
Conference topics focus on how man once extracted power from the tides and how he seeks to use this power again. Come to learn and participate in the discussions.
Here are a few topics in the program:
- Medieval vertical and horizontal millwheels
- A tide mill at the heart of the 1775 Battle of Brooklyn
- Structure of tide mill dams
- How tides in New York’s East River supply power to the grid
- A possible tidal energy canal for Boston
Save your space and help us with planning by pre-registering now.