Introduction to a History of the Factory SystemR. Bentley, 1886 - 441 pages |
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... machines , air - engines , gas - engines , electric - engines , photographs , tunnels , ship canals , and all the rest . Early in the last century England was one of the lesser kingdoms in Europe , but one - third in size and numbers of ...
... machines , air - engines , gas - engines , electric - engines , photographs , tunnels , ship canals , and all the rest . Early in the last century England was one of the lesser kingdoms in Europe , but one - third in size and numbers of ...
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... machine for grinding or com- minuting any substance " ( Webster ) . Some such contriv- ance has been in use from time immemorial ( Exod . xi . 5 ) ; at first in the form of the ancient quern or hand mill , for grinding corn ; an ...
... machine for grinding or com- minuting any substance " ( Webster ) . Some such contriv- ance has been in use from time immemorial ( Exod . xi . 5 ) ; at first in the form of the ancient quern or hand mill , for grinding corn ; an ...
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... machine worked either by the hands or feet , and which in the latter case must have borne an unpleasant resemblance to the treadmill still occasionally to be seen in our prisons , and even sometimes employed on just the same work ...
... machine worked either by the hands or feet , and which in the latter case must have borne an unpleasant resemblance to the treadmill still occasionally to be seen in our prisons , and even sometimes employed on just the same work ...
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... machine labour is sought to be fixed at present , however , in still another direction , namely , to be made to rest between manufacture and handicraft , originally , as is evident , synonymous terms . The ninety - fourth section of the ...
... machine labour is sought to be fixed at present , however , in still another direction , namely , to be made to rest between manufacture and handicraft , originally , as is evident , synonymous terms . The ninety - fourth section of the ...
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... machine is a portent of no ordinary kind . Similarly , the employment of gangs of persons associated for certain ... machines are only complicated developments of the simple tools that have long been in use ; and the mysterious power by ...
... machine is a portent of no ordinary kind . Similarly , the employment of gangs of persons associated for certain ... machines are only complicated developments of the simple tools that have long been in use ; and the mysterious power by ...
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afterwards ancient Egypt Ancient Egyptians antiquity appears Arkwright Asia Assyria became Britain carried celebrated century chap civilisation cloth colours commerce conquest cotton Cotton Manufacture district earliest early Edward Edward III Egypt employed England English established Europe fabrics fact factory system facture feudal flax foreign glass gold Greek guild hand important India industry inhabitants instance invention iron Italy J. S. Mill kind known labour Lancashire land later linen loom machine machinery manu material mediæval ment mentioned merchants metal Middle Ages mills modern factory system nations native nature operations organisation passed period persons Phoenicians political pottery present principal probably production prosperity quoted reign Roman Saxon says silk slaves spindle spinning statute stocking frame stone supply Tarshish textile thread tion towns weavers weaving weft wool woollen manufacture writer yarn
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Page 142 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
Page 92 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, " Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots ? " Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, "Have they not sped?
Page 161 - And I will bring the third part through the fire, And will refine them as silver is refined, And will try them as gold is tried: They shall call on my name, and I will hear them : I will say, It is my people: And they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Page 352 - The more carefully we examine the history of the past, the more reason shall we find to dissent from those who imagine that our age has been fruitful of new social evils. The truth is that the evils are, with scarcely an exception, old. That which is new is the intelligence which discerns and the humanity which remedies them.
Page 343 - On the best lines of communication the ruts were deep, the descents precipitous, and the way often such as it was hardly possible to distinguish, in the dusk, from the unenclosed heath and fen which lay on both sides.
Page 404 - 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.
Page 398 - An eminent manufacturer in that age," said he, " used to be in his warehouse before six in the morning, accompanied by his children and apprentices. At seven they all came in to breakfast, which consisted of one large dish of water-pottage, made of oatmeal, water, and a little salt, boiled thick, and poured into a dish. At the side was a pan or basin of milk, and the master and apprentices, each with a wooden spoon in his hand, without loss of time, dipped into the same dish, and thence into the...
Page 352 - It may here be noticed that the practice of setting children prematurely to work, a practice which the state, the legitimate protector of those who cannot protect themselves, has, in our time, wisely and humanely interdicted, prevailed in the seventeenth century to an extent which, when compared with the extent of the manufacturing system, seems almost incredible. At Norwich, the chief seat of the clothing trade, a little creature of six years old was thought fit for labour.
Page 342 - Could the England of 1685 be, by some magical process, set before our eyes, we should not know one landscape in a hundred or one building in ten thousand.
Page 431 - This brought on a conversation on the subject, in which the Manchester gentlemen unanimously agreed that the thing was impracticable ; and in defence of their opinion they adduced arguments which I...