The Results of Machinery: Namely, Cheap Production and Increased Employment Exhibited : Being an Address to the Working-men of the United KingdomCarey & Hart, 1831 - 216 halaman |
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Halaman 11
... advantages of ma- chinery to the consumer , that is , to the person who wants and buys the article consumed , as well as to the producer , or the person who manufactures the article produced . This little book is intended to consist of ...
... advantages of ma- chinery to the consumer , that is , to the person who wants and buys the article consumed , as well as to the producer , or the person who manufactures the article produced . This little book is intended to consist of ...
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... advantage to the consumer in the diminished cost of the production , and an ample equivalent in mere labor , ( which , beat always in mind , is the means of producing commodities , and not the end for which they are produced , ) in the ...
... advantage to the consumer in the diminished cost of the production , and an ample equivalent in mere labor , ( which , beat always in mind , is the means of producing commodities , and not the end for which they are produced , ) in the ...
Halaman 27
... advantage to the producer , and is therefore not desirable for the consumer . All such questions must be determined by the cost of production ; and that cost in agriculture is made up of the rent of land , the profit of capital , and ...
... advantage to the producer , and is therefore not desirable for the consumer . All such questions must be determined by the cost of production ; and that cost in agriculture is made up of the rent of land , the profit of capital , and ...
Halaman 32
... advantages which machinery has conferred upon us , and the great distance in point of comfort between their state and ours , principally for the reason that they have no machinery , while we have a great deal . One of these poor men ...
... advantages which machinery has conferred upon us , and the great distance in point of comfort between their state and ours , principally for the reason that they have no machinery , while we have a great deal . One of these poor men ...
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... advantage of this first step of the iron - making , the iron is not yet fit for a knife . It is cast - iron . It cannot be worked by the hammer , or sharpened to a cutting edge ; and so it must be made into malleable iron , -into a kind ...
... advantage of this first step of the iron - making , the iron is not yet fit for a knife . It is cast - iron . It cannot be worked by the hammer , or sharpened to a cutting edge ; and so it must be made into malleable iron , -into a kind ...
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Halaman 91 - It was no uncommon thing for a weaver to walk three or four miles in a morning, and call on five or six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day ; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual, a new ribbon, or gown, was necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner.
Halaman 178 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: For no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure : No sovereignty— Seb.
Halaman 115 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Halaman 214 - We were thrown but once indeed in going, but our coach — which was the leading one — and his highness's body coach would have suffered very much, if the nimble boors of Sussex had not frequently poised it or supported it with their shoulders...
Halaman 215 - ... servants, if they had any sheet above them, it was well, for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet and rased their hardened hides.
Halaman 49 - ... box, from which it was forced by means of a powerful screw depressing a tightly-fitted piston ; thence it fell between two iron rollers ; below these were placed a number of other rollers, two of which had, in addition to their rotatory motion, an end motion, ie a motion in the direction of their length ; the whole system of rollers terminated in two, which applied the ink to the types. In order to obtain a great number of impressions from * Mr.
Halaman 13 - ... been checked at once, had the great truth been generally understood, that no form or combination of machinery ever did or ever can increase, in the slightest degree, the quantity of power applied. Ignorance of this is the hinge on which most of the dreams of mechanical projectors have turned. No year passes, even now, in which many patents are not taken out for such supposed discoveries ; and the deluded individuals, after...
Halaman 161 - Two centuries ago, not one person in a thousand wore stockings ; — one century ago, not one person in five hundred wore them;— now, not one person in a thousand is without them.
Halaman 37 - Buchanan that the same quantity of human labour employed in working a pump, turning a winch, ringing a bell, and rowing a boat, are as the numbers 100, 167, 227, and 248. The most advantageous manner of applying human strength is in the act of rowing.
Halaman 13 - Hence the common error in supposing that they generate force, or have a sort of innate power for saving labour ; whereas, neither simple machines nor mechanic powers save labour, in a strict sense of the phrase. Why, then, are these machines advantageous ? Because they allow a small force to take its time to produce any requisite magnitude of effect. Thus, one man's effort, or any small power, which is always at command, by working proportionally longer, will answer the purpose of the sudden effort...