The Industrial RevolutionS. Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1901 - 105 pages |
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... figures are not exact , they show that agriculturalists had more than their proportionate share of the income . This was probably due to the fact that machinery was not yet employed in manufacturing to any great extent , and a large ...
... figures are not exact , they show that agriculturalists had more than their proportionate share of the income . This was probably due to the fact that machinery was not yet employed in manufacturing to any great extent , and a large ...
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... figures . We can then proceed to the more intangible and subtle changes , known as social , which touch upon every phase of human life . Following this plan , we shall first devote our attention to the mechanical phase of the subject ...
... figures . We can then proceed to the more intangible and subtle changes , known as social , which touch upon every phase of human life . Following this plan , we shall first devote our attention to the mechanical phase of the subject ...
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... figure which played at chess . ' Now you will not assert , gentlemen , ' said I , ' that it is more difficult to construct a machine that shall weave than one which shall make all the variety of moves required in that com- plicated game ...
... figure which played at chess . ' Now you will not assert , gentlemen , ' said I , ' that it is more difficult to construct a machine that shall weave than one which shall make all the variety of moves required in that com- plicated game ...
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... figures , does not derive its interest , so far as this work is concerned , from the number of tons of stuff produced , but from the relative increase in the productive capacity of man . Herein lies the problem ; for , as Thurston says ...
... figures , does not derive its interest , so far as this work is concerned , from the number of tons of stuff produced , but from the relative increase in the productive capacity of man . Herein lies the problem ; for , as Thurston says ...
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... figures give an inkling of the industrial transformation which succeeded the great inventions . Now , let us turn to the real increase in productive capacity of the individual . In other words , let us see whether productive capacity ...
... figures give an inkling of the industrial transformation which succeeded the great inventions . Now , let us turn to the real increase in productive capacity of the individual . In other words , let us see whether productive capacity ...
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acres Adam Smith agriculture amount appliances Arkwright became capital capitalists centres classes clothing Co-operative competition cotton Democracy disease duction economic eighteenth century electric employed employers energy England English factory system forces freedom of contract French Revolution Government hand workers horse-power House of Lords human hundred ignorant important improved increased individual industrial organisation Industrial Revolution inventors iron knowledge labour Lancashire land legislation machinery machines Manchester manufacture means mechanical inventions medieval methods mill owners moral nation natural necessary Newcastle-on-Tyne output Parliament persons political economists population power loom problem productive capacity progress railway rapidly raw materials recognised reform regulation restricted Robert Owen sanitary secure Sidney Webb social society spindles spinners spinning steam steam-engine struggle stuffs textile things tion to-day towns trade transportation turn utilisation vast wages waste water frame wealth weaver weaving wool