The Results of Machinery: Namely, Cheap Production and Increased Employment, Exhibited : Being an Address to the Working-men of the United KingdomC. Knight, 1831 - 216 halaman |
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... pin is made of brass . You have seen how metal is obtained from ore by machinery , and , therefore , we will not go over that ground . But suppose the most skilful workman has a lump of brass ready by his side , to make it into pins ...
... pin is made of brass . You have seen how metal is obtained from ore by machinery , and , therefore , we will not go over that ground . But suppose the most skilful workman has a lump of brass ready by his side , to make it into pins ...
Halaman 129
... pin made by machinery is a perfect cylinder . To make a metal , or even a wooden cylinder , of considerable size , with files and polishing , is an operation so difficult , that it ... pins are also done by ma- THE RESULTS OF MACHINERY . 129.
... pin made by machinery is a perfect cylinder . To make a metal , or even a wooden cylinder , of considerable size , with files and polishing , is an operation so difficult , that it ... pins are also done by ma- THE RESULTS OF MACHINERY . 129.
Halaman 130
... pins may be consumed in a year by the most economical housewife , at a much less price than fifty pins of a rude make cost two or three centuries ago . A woman's allowance was formerly called her pin - money , a proof that pins were a ...
... pins may be consumed in a year by the most economical housewife , at a much less price than fifty pins of a rude make cost two or three centuries ago . A woman's allowance was formerly called her pin - money , a proof that pins were a ...
Halaman 131
... pins , machinery is at work at the first formation of the material . Without the tilt - hammer , which beats out the bar of steel , first at the rate of ten strokes a minute , and lastly at that of five hundred , how could that bar be ...
... pins , machinery is at work at the first formation of the material . Without the tilt - hammer , which beats out the bar of steel , first at the rate of ten strokes a minute , and lastly at that of five hundred , how could that bar be ...
Halaman 134
... pin or needle , he could not make ten in a day - probably not one . It is said that among the early settlers of North America , there was once a whole village in which there was but one needle . If the present rage against machinery ...
... pin or needle , he could not make ten in a day - probably not one . It is said that among the early settlers of North America , there was once a whole village in which there was but one needle . If the present rage against machinery ...
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agricultural amongst better bookbinders brick Britain capital cheap cheaper chine chinery cloth coal comforts condition consumed contrivances corn cost of production cotton duce employed employment engines England Engravings fifty France furnace give glass greater number hand hand-loom hand-mills Herman Merivale horses houses human labor hundred improvement increased industry ingenuity invention Ireland iron John Conolly John Elliotson Joseph Foster knife knowledge lace Lancashire land Leonard Horner less lessen London machine machinery manufacture material means ment miles mill millions needles number of persons obtain perfect Petworth pins plow ployed pounds pounds sterling power-loom present printing procure produce profitable labor quantity roads rollers shillings society spinning steam-engines stone sumer supply thing Thomas Falconer THOMAS TREDGOLD thousand thread tion trade twenty United Kingdom wages weavers weft wheel windlass wood working-men workman Zachary Macaulay
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Halaman 166 - 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 202 - Petworth and did not get out of the coaches (save only when we were overturned or stuck fast in the mire) till we arrived at our journey's end. Twas...
Halaman 103 - ... 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 203 - ... 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 149 - 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 80 - ... a mistake, but a benevolent one. It was in the year 1767, as we have mentioned, that Arkwright became acquainted with Kay. In...
Halaman 202 - ... there are old men yet dwelling in the village where I remain, which have noted three things to be marvellously altered in England within their sound remembrance.
Halaman 202 - Highness' body coach, would have suffered very much if the nimble boors of Sussex had not frequently poised it or supported it with their shoulders, from Godalming almost to Petworth, and the nearer we approached the Duke's house, the more inaccessible it seemed to be. The last nine miles of the way cost us six hours...
Halaman 203 - ... as well lodged as the lord of the town : So well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in childbed : As for 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 canvass, and rased their hardened hides.
Halaman 126 - I could supply him with dolls' eyes ; and I was foolish enough to feel' half offended. I thought it derogatory to my new dignity as a manufacturer to make dolls