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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... which make it the more necessary that we should address our- selves to you speedily ; and some of you are poor , and therefore have not much to spare , even for what you may believe may do you good . 8 THE RESULTS OF MACHINERY .
... which make it the more necessary that we should address our- selves to you speedily ; and some of you are poor , and therefore have not much to spare , even for what you may believe may do you good . 8 THE RESULTS OF MACHINERY .
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... their flails and their dibbers ; but he employs just as many people as are abso- The lutely necessary , and no more , for getting his B 2 THE RESULTS OF MACHINERY . 17 there were no laws to repress such outrages; ...
... their flails and their dibbers ; but he employs just as many people as are abso- The lutely necessary , and no more , for getting his B 2 THE RESULTS OF MACHINERY . 17 there were no laws to repress such outrages; ...
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... necessary , and no more , for getting his corn ready for market , and for preparing , in a slovenly way , for the seed - time . In a month or two , the victorious destroyers find that not a single hand the more of them is really em ...
... necessary , and no more , for getting his corn ready for market , and for preparing , in a slovenly way , for the seed - time . In a month or two , the victorious destroyers find that not a single hand the more of them is really em ...
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... necessary to produce the same effects with a thrashing machine . The truth is , that the man's arm and the flail form a much more curious machine , than the other machine of wheels , which does the same work ; and the real question as ...
... necessary to produce the same effects with a thrashing machine . The truth is , that the man's arm and the flail form a much more curious machine , than the other machine of wheels , which does the same work ; and the real question as ...
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... necessary to explain , that produce the peculiar quality of steel , as distinguished from cast - iron . If the ope- ration of heating the iron in charcoal is con- tinued too long , or the heat is too great , the iron becomes cast ...
... necessary to explain , that produce the peculiar quality of steel , as distinguished from cast - iron . If the ope- ration of heating the iron in charcoal is con- tinued too long , or the heat is too great , the iron becomes cast ...
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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...