The Industrial RevolutionS. Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1901 - 105 pages |
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... hundred and fifty years , by discoveries and inventions which have altered fundamentally all the methods of production and distribution of the means of life , and consequently revolutionised all the economic functions of society . Man ...
... hundred and fifty years , by discoveries and inventions which have altered fundamentally all the methods of production and distribution of the means of life , and consequently revolutionised all the economic functions of society . Man ...
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... hundred times the produce that it did in its former state . " On account of the lack of general diffusion of knowledge , improve- ments in fertilising and cultivation used in some portions were unknown in others . In the South Country ...
... hundred times the produce that it did in its former state . " On account of the lack of general diffusion of knowledge , improve- ments in fertilising and cultivation used in some portions were unknown in others . In the South Country ...
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... hundred and twenty- three roads , fifty - three of which were good , twenty - seven vile , and forty - one indifferent . He frequently gives us bits of description as expressive as the following : - " To Wigan . I know not , in the ...
... hundred and twenty- three roads , fifty - three of which were good , twenty - seven vile , and forty - one indifferent . He frequently gives us bits of description as expressive as the following : - " To Wigan . I know not , in the ...
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... hundred years . Sec . 2. - The Mechanics of the Revolution . So vast is the field which we are about to investigate , so complex are the forces , and so multitudinous are the details , that we are compelled to set our limitations ...
... hundred years . Sec . 2. - The Mechanics of the Revolution . So vast is the field which we are about to investigate , so complex are the forces , and so multitudinous are the details , that we are compelled to set our limitations ...
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... hundred weight , and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket . In short , it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate , and only for a short time ...
... hundred weight , and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket . In short , it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate , and only for a short time ...
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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