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... railway manager in the United States estimates that $ 200,000,000 would be saved annually if all railways were ... railway business in the United States from the beginning of our railway history to the present time has been sufficient to ...
... railway manager in the United States estimates that $ 200,000,000 would be saved annually if all railways were ... railway business in the United States from the beginning of our railway history to the present time has been sufficient to ...
Page xix
Charles Austin Beard. on separate railway management in England is set at £ 30,000,000 yearly . It is calculated that there are in London two and a half times as many shops as are necessary for convenient and efficient distribution ...
Charles Austin Beard. on separate railway management in England is set at £ 30,000,000 yearly . It is calculated that there are in London two and a half times as many shops as are necessary for convenient and efficient distribution ...
Page 35
... railway belongs , not , as is often supposed , to Stephenson , but to Richard Trevithick who , in 1804 , built a locomotive , and set it to work on the Welsh Pen - y - darran road . In 1808 , he built a railway in London , but this ...
... railway belongs , not , as is often supposed , to Stephenson , but to Richard Trevithick who , in 1804 , built a locomotive , and set it to work on the Welsh Pen - y - darran road . In 1808 , he built a railway in London , but this ...
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... railway with his scheme of substituting the iron horse for one of flesh and blood . As a result , in 1825 was completed the first railway over which both passengers and goods were carried . Thus the modern railway system was in ...
... railway with his scheme of substituting the iron horse for one of flesh and blood . As a result , in 1825 was completed the first railway over which both passengers and goods were carried . Thus the modern railway system was in ...
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... Railway and shipping rates are fixed by conferences , and great com- panies are slowly absorbing their rivals . In the textile industry , combinations have been effected in thirteen different branches ; more than 296 firms have been ...
... Railway and shipping rates are fixed by conferences , and great com- panies are slowly absorbing their rivals . In the textile industry , combinations have been effected in thirteen different branches ; more than 296 firms have been ...
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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