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... French army officer had built and operated a steam carriage , and fifteen years later one was constructed by Murdock , Watt's assistant . However , these locomotives were intended for use on the ordinary highways . In order to ...
... French army officer had built and operated a steam carriage , and fifteen years later one was constructed by Murdock , Watt's assistant . However , these locomotives were intended for use on the ordinary highways . In order to ...
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... French Revolution , because it was so long , so coolly accepted , and even defended by political economists and servants of the Man of Galilee . As early as 1795 , Dr. Aikin noted that the invention of machinery to shorten labour had ...
... French Revolution , because it was so long , so coolly accepted , and even defended by political economists and servants of the Man of Galilee . As early as 1795 , Dr. Aikin noted that the invention of machinery to shorten labour had ...
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Charles Austin Beard. dustrial Revolution was getting a fair start in England , the French Revolution broke out . The fall of the Bastille , whose sombre walls stood for all that was tyrannical in the old order , was a signal of the ...
Charles Austin Beard. dustrial Revolution was getting a fair start in England , the French Revolution broke out . The fall of the Bastille , whose sombre walls stood for all that was tyrannical in the old order , was a signal of the ...
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... French Revolution frightened even the most advanced English statesmen ; ( 3 ) the energies of the nation were strained to the utmost in the struggle for self - preservation ; ( 4 ) patriotism stifled the bitter cry of want , for we are ...
... French Revolution frightened even the most advanced English statesmen ; ( 3 ) the energies of the nation were strained to the utmost in the struggle for self - preservation ; ( 4 ) patriotism stifled the bitter cry of want , for we are ...
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... French Revolution frightened the governing classes in England , and it was not until Napoleon was safe at St. Helena that reform measures were seriously taken up . In connection with the agitation for Parliamentary reform , notice ...
... French Revolution frightened the governing classes in England , and it was not until Napoleon was safe at St. Helena that reform measures were seriously taken up . In connection with the agitation for Parliamentary reform , notice ...
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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