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... Arkwright embodied this design in his " water frame . " Whatever advantage Arkwright may have taken of the previous inventions , it is certain that he made one important advance . Previous to his invention , linen thread was used by the ...
... Arkwright embodied this design in his " water frame . " Whatever advantage Arkwright may have taken of the previous inventions , it is certain that he made one important advance . Previous to his invention , linen thread was used by the ...
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... Arkwright's spinning machinery . One of the company observed that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired , so many mills would be erected and so much cotton spun that hands never could be found to weave it . To this observation , I ...
... Arkwright's spinning machinery . One of the company observed that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired , so many mills would be erected and so much cotton spun that hands never could be found to weave it . To this observation , I ...
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... Arkwright , and others were busy contriving the new textile machinery , various inventors were wrestling with the problem of energy . Consequently , the wonderful revelation of the exhaustless labour - power of the steam- engine came ...
... Arkwright , and others were busy contriving the new textile machinery , various inventors were wrestling with the problem of energy . Consequently , the wonderful revelation of the exhaustless labour - power of the steam- engine came ...
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... Arkwright , Crompton , Cartwright , and others dealt with the textile problem ; Papin , Savery , Newcomen , Beighton , Watt , and perhaps a host of others , whose names will never appear on the pages of history , added to the perfecting ...
... Arkwright , Crompton , Cartwright , and others dealt with the textile problem ; Papin , Savery , Newcomen , Beighton , Watt , and perhaps a host of others , whose names will never appear on the pages of history , added to the perfecting ...
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Adam Smith agriculture amount Arkwright became capital capitalist centres chapter CHARLES BEARD classes clothing combination compelled competition cotton Democracy disease duction economic eighteenth century electric employed employers energy England English estimated factory system forces French Revolution Government hand workers horse-power human hundred ignorant important improved increased individual industrial organisation industrial problem Industrial Revolution inventors iron knowledge labour Lancashire land legislation machinery machines Manchester manufacture markets means mechanical inventions mediƦval medieval ment methods mill owners modern moral nation natural necessary Newcastle-on-Tyne operation output Parliament persons political political economists population power loom profit progress railway rapidly raw materials recognised reform regulation restrictions Robert Owen sanitary 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