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... centre . Professor Ely says : " It is useless to attempt any precise estimate , but it may not be an extravagant estimate if we claim that the loss due to competition in the railway business in the United States from the beginning of ...
... centre . Professor Ely says : " It is useless to attempt any precise estimate , but it may not be an extravagant estimate if we claim that the loss due to competition in the railway business in the United States from the beginning of ...
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... centre of open field farms still existed over a large portion of the country . The land attached to the village was composed of arable , meadow , and pasture . Though the average holding consisted of about eighteen acres of arable , two ...
... centre of open field farms still existed over a large portion of the country . The land attached to the village was composed of arable , meadow , and pasture . Though the average holding consisted of about eighteen acres of arable , two ...
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... one part of the country , but was distributed among centres , large and small , throughout England . The cotton industry , which was as yet quite unimportant , J centred in Lancashire . The manufactured goods at Manchester ENGLAND IN 1760.
... one part of the country , but was distributed among centres , large and small , throughout England . The cotton industry , which was as yet quite unimportant , J centred in Lancashire . The manufactured goods at Manchester ENGLAND IN 1760.
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... centre of production was in Sussex , where ten furnaces yielded an annual output of 1400 tons . Five miles from Newcastle ... centres . About 30,000 persons were employed in brass and copper industry in 1720 ; and silk , hosiery , linen ...
... centre of production was in Sussex , where ten furnaces yielded an annual output of 1400 tons . Five miles from Newcastle ... centres . About 30,000 persons were employed in brass and copper industry in 1720 ; and silk , hosiery , linen ...
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... centre . The difficulty of procuring fuel prevented any extensive development , because wood was considered necessary to the smelting processes . About 1750 the process of smelting by coal became effective , and at once led to a rapid ...
... centre . The difficulty of procuring fuel prevented any extensive development , because wood was considered necessary to the smelting processes . About 1750 the process of smelting by coal became effective , and at once led to a rapid ...
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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 mediæval 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