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... transportation was slow and inadequate , there was naturally little specialisation in heavy or perishable goods . 66 Defoe , in his tour through Great Britain ( 1724-26 ) , draws a graphic picture of industrial life near Halifax ...
... transportation was slow and inadequate , there was naturally little specialisation in heavy or perishable goods . 66 Defoe , in his tour through Great Britain ( 1724-26 ) , draws a graphic picture of industrial life near Halifax ...
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... Transportation . In these days of rapid transit it is difficult to imagine the times when the products of mill , mine , and farm were laboriously and slowly dragged to markets in waggons , canal boats , or on horseback . A large portion ...
... Transportation . In these days of rapid transit it is difficult to imagine the times when the products of mill , mine , and farm were laboriously and slowly dragged to markets in waggons , canal boats , or on horseback . A large portion ...
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... transportation , com- bined with restrictions on apprentices and the Act of Settlement and general ignorance of opportunities open in various parts of the country , prevented that mobility of labourand capital which characterises modern ...
... transportation , com- bined with restrictions on apprentices and the Act of Settlement and general ignorance of opportunities open in various parts of the country , prevented that mobility of labourand capital which characterises modern ...
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... transportation . Canals , stage- coaches , pack - horses , waggons , and sailing vessels could not do the work , and the slow methods precluded the transportation of perishable commodities . For a number of years attempts had been made ...
... transportation . Canals , stage- coaches , pack - horses , waggons , and sailing vessels could not do the work , and the slow methods precluded the transportation of perishable commodities . For a number of years attempts had been made ...
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... transportation opened . Sec . 10. The Steamship . The problem of steam navigation had been by no means neglected . Near the close of the seventeenth century , Papin set forth a proposition to use his piston - engine to drive paddle ...
... transportation opened . Sec . 10. The Steamship . The problem of steam navigation had been by no means neglected . Near the close of the seventeenth century , Papin set forth a proposition to use his piston - engine to drive paddle ...
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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