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... " not one farmer in five thousand reads at all . " Indeed , there was little necessity for communication with the world at large . The villages were almost entirely self - sufficing , because they produced 8 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
... " not one farmer in five thousand reads at all . " Indeed , there was little necessity for communication with the world at large . The villages were almost entirely self - sufficing , because they produced 8 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
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... Five miles from Newcastle - on - Tyne were on works which ranked among the largest in Europe , and Rotherham was also famous for its iron foundries . At the middle of the eighteenth century , the industry was not as great as it had been ...
... Five miles from Newcastle - on - Tyne were on works which ranked among the largest in Europe , and Rotherham was also famous for its iron foundries . At the middle of the eighteenth century , the industry was not as great as it had been ...
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... five men with modern improved machinery can produce more manufactured goods than all the textile workers of Lancashire could in the eighteenth century . Bell's in- vention of cylinder printing in 1783 enabled a man and a boy to turn out ...
... five men with modern improved machinery can produce more manufactured goods than all the textile workers of Lancashire could in the eighteenth century . Bell's in- vention of cylinder printing in 1783 enabled a man and a boy to turn out ...
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... five or six pounds a day . Eli Whitney , a young Yankee who was then . studying law in the South , recognised the difficulties with which the planters had to deal , and , at the solicitation of some friends , set to work to construct a ...
... five or six pounds a day . Eli Whitney , a young Yankee who was then . studying law in the South , recognised the difficulties with which the planters had to deal , and , at the solicitation of some friends , set to work to construct a ...
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... five days , without any serious difficulty . Now goods and passenger steamers ply between all the principal ports of the trading world . Such have been the results of conquering and utilising the powers of Nature , which through the ...
... five days , without any serious difficulty . Now goods and passenger steamers ply between all the principal ports of the trading world . Such have been the results of conquering and utilising the powers of Nature , which through the ...
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Adam Smith agriculture amount Arkwright became capital capitalist centres chapter CHARLES BEARD classes clothing Co-operative combination compete competition cotton Democracy disease economic eighteenth century electric employed employers energy England English estimated factory system forces freedom of contract French Revolution Government hand workers horse-power human hundred ignorant important improved increased individual industrial organisation Industrial Revolution inventors iron labour Lancashire land legislation machinery machines Manchester manufacture markets means mechanical inventions medieval ment methods mill owners modern moral nation natural necessary operation output Parliament persons political political economists population power loom problem production profit progress railway rapidly raw materials reform regulation restrictions Robert Owen secure Sidney Webb social society spinning steam steam-engine struggle supply textile things tion to-day towns trade Trade Unionism transportation turn utilisation vast wages waste water frame wealth weaver weaving wool