Author: Tide Mill Institute

Annual Tide Mill Conference – Nov 10, Beverly, MA

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.

Program and registration details

New Institute Website: More Frequent Contact

The Tide Mill Institute has improved its website to allow more frequent communication with tide mill enthusiasts and the general public.

The new site retains the extensive tide mill information on its original site, but it now also provides frequent news and tide mill information updates on its front page. Visitors to the site can comment on articles or provide more information about a topic if they wish.

Anyone can subscribe for free to receive email notifications whenever a new item is added to the site’s news page.

The institute has traditionally issued Tide Mill Times, a multi-page newsletter, two to four times each year, as an email attachment to subscribers. The new site will replace these periodic newsletters with a “blog,” or individual articles published online more frequently and as-needed to keep the tide mill community informed.