The Industrial RevolutionS. Sonnenschein & Company, Lim., 1901 - 105 pages |
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... turn breed children who shall have better chances than themselves - not necessarily better chances to grow rich or to become idle , but better chances to become honourable , wise , strong- bodied and strong - brained able men and women ...
... turn breed children who shall have better chances than themselves - not necessarily better chances to grow rich or to become idle , but better chances to become honourable , wise , strong- bodied and strong - brained able men and women ...
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... turn to England of 1760 , and examine the old order . What a strange panorama unrolls before our eyes ! We see not the England of -day , but a quiet , rural England yet unawakened by the roar of traffic and industry . At the middle of ...
... turn to England of 1760 , and examine the old order . What a strange panorama unrolls before our eyes ! We see not the England of -day , but a quiet , rural England yet unawakened by the roar of traffic and industry . At the middle of ...
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... turn the wheels of some small factories . The commodities so produced were transported by slow and tedious methods to the markets . Man seemed to be a helpless pigmy , confined and overawed in his activities by the tremendous forces of ...
... turn the wheels of some small factories . The commodities so produced were transported by slow and tedious methods to the markets . Man seemed to be a helpless pigmy , confined and overawed in his activities by the tremendous forces of ...
Page 11
... turning cranes for moving anchors into and out of the fire , the beating hammer lifted by the cogs of a wheel - these are machines of manifest utility , simple in their construction , and all moved by water . " The age of invention was ...
... turning cranes for moving anchors into and out of the fire , the beating hammer lifted by the cogs of a wheel - these are machines of manifest utility , simple in their construction , and all moved by water . " The age of invention was ...
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... turn out as much as two hundred men and boys , while the application of oxymuriatic acid to bleaching shortened that process from several months to a few days . The problem of supplying the enormous demand for raw materials now ...
... turn out as much as two hundred men and boys , while the application of oxymuriatic acid to bleaching shortened that process from several months to a few days . The problem of supplying the enormous demand for raw materials now ...
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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