Interesting story of how lighting the world took its toll on New - TopicsExpress



          

Interesting story of how lighting the world took its toll on New Bedfords harbor: New Bedford has been called the City that Lit the World the world. The moniker, of course, derived from New Bedford’s central role in the production of whale oil. As whaling declined, manufacturing took its place and, by the mid-twentieth century, New Bedford was once again helping to light the world with factories that produced electrical transformers and capacitors. Both whaling and manufacturing were major economic drivers, but they took a toll on the harbor and communities that made the city so prosperous.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:18:21 +0000

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