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... horse and water furnished the power used to turn the wheels of some small factories . The commodities so produced were transported by slow and tedious methods to the markets . Man seemed to be a helpless pigmy , confined and overawed in ...
... horse and water furnished the power used to turn the wheels of some small factories . The commodities so produced were transported by slow and tedious methods to the markets . Man seemed to be a helpless pigmy , confined and overawed in ...
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... horse , at least , to carry his manufactures to market , and everyone generally keeps a cow or two or more for his ... power began to wane . Alongside of the landed aristocracy arose a powerful mercantile class . whose wealth gave them ...
... horse , at least , to carry his manufactures to market , and everyone generally keeps a cow or two or more for his ... power began to wane . Alongside of the landed aristocracy arose a powerful mercantile class . whose wealth gave them ...
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... power were owned by the head of the household . These little units made up a portion of the industrial structure of ... horse , to be taken into the 14 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
... power were owned by the head of the household . These little units made up a portion of the industrial structure of ... horse , to be taken into the 14 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.
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Charles Austin Beard. of the sturdy horse , to be taken into the country to be spun . Here at each village he had his ... power - driven machinery for hand labour was necessary to complete the destruction of home TM industry . As late as ...
Charles Austin Beard. of the sturdy horse , to be taken into the country to be spun . Here at each village he had his ... power - driven machinery for hand labour was necessary to complete the destruction of home TM industry . As late as ...
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... horse bids fair to hold its own for many years . Sec . 6. The Iron Trade . The importance of iron in the development of industry and the extension of the powers of man can scarcely be over - estimated . Its qualities of durability ...
... horse bids fair to hold its own for many years . Sec . 6. The Iron Trade . The importance of iron in the development of industry and the extension of the powers of man can scarcely be over - estimated . Its qualities of durability ...
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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