The Rise of the Great Manufacturers in England, 1760-1790H.R. Haas, printers, 1919 - 95 páginas |
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Aikin Annals of Agriculture Annual Register Arkwright Arthur Young Average annual number Birmingham Britain Chamber of Manufacturers chines Chron Committee Commons Journals Commons on Irish cotton manufacturers cotton tax Daily Advertiser Dossie Edmund Cartwright English Englishmen European Magazine Evidence taken excise export facturers foreign French fustian Gazetteer Gentleman's Magazine George George III grants House of Commons House of Lords important increase inventive activity Ireland Irish Resolutions Josiah Wedgwood labor Lancashire linen Lord Auckland Lords on Irish machines Manchester manufacturers manu manufac Manufactures and Commerce Matthew Boulton Memoirs Merchant for 1787 method of rewarding monopoly number of patents organization parliament Parliamentary History Parliamentary Register Patents of Invention petitions Political premiums rewarding inventors Robert Owen secure Sheffield silk Society of Arts society's spinning spinning jenny stocking frame textile tion trade Transactions transition to mechanical treaty with France various wool woollen manufacturers writers
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Página 87 - The Advancement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce; or, descriptions of the useful machines and models contained in the repository of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce...
Página 67 - That it is expedient for the general benefit of the British empire, that the importation of articles from foreign countries...
Página 76 - The treaty, which was signed at length on September 26, 1786, marked a notable advance in the direction of commercial liberalism. It provided for reciprocal liberty in respect to residence, travel, the purchase and use of consumption goods, and the practice of religious faiths, within the European dominions of the two countries, "freely and securely, without license or passport, general or special, by land or by sea." The principal commercial advantages gained by France were in respect to wines and...
Página 88 - Svo, 2s. 6d. Correspondence between the Right Honble. William Pitt and Charles Duke of Rutland, Lord - Lieutenant of Ireland, 1781-1787. With Introductory Note by JOHN DUKE OF RUTLAND.
Página 77 - Fenchurch Street and adopted resolutions favoring the treaty. It was resolved that " from the best information the committee can collect from the Chambers of Commerce and Manufactures " and other sources, the treaty, based upon "liberal and equitable principles, promises to be advantageous to their manufacturing and commercial interests by opening a new source of fair trade to both nations...
Página 54 - tis presumption, — too much would demean 'em To hold converse with upstarts, a vulgus profanem. Their blood in pure currents thro' ages conveyed It were impious to taint with the contact of trade. In a succeeding letter he describes the early vicissitudes and later triumphs of industry in Venice and Holland, and in prophetic strain foresees the shifting of power in England to the industrialized north of England : At length (thanks to heav'n) she is freed from her thrall, And her weeds has thrown...
Página 4 - ... practice, see below, pp. 25-30. as a facetious expression of the inventive spirit of the time it has lively interest and real significance. "Hail to the Patent!" exclaims the author; and after enumerating by way of illustration some of the varied performances attributable to patented inventions, he asks: What man would scruple to resign his breath, Provided he could die a patent death? At length he grows prophetic : The time may come when nothing will succeed But what a previous Patent hath decreed;...
Página 24 - Transactions in 1783 it seemed reasonable to conjecture 'that the great improvements in Spinning, which have taken place within twenty years, in these kingdoms, particularly in the Cotton works in Lancashire, Derbyshire, Nottingham, etc., are to be assigned to the premiums offered and paid by this Society'.
Página 27 - Manchester goods in particular "to spread in ten thousand forms and colors, not only in these kingdoms, but over all Europe, and even into distant continents." They are expected to produce "great changes ... in the appearance of the civilized world," and the magnitude of their benefits "can scarcely be estimated." The "discoveries and improvements" of the age "diffuse a glory over this country unattainable by conquest or dominion," and promise to "stamp a luster" on his Majesty's reign "to the latest...
Página 54 - Such are England's true patriots, her prop and her pride; They draw wealth from each state while its wants are supply'd; To mankind all at large they are factors and friends, And their praise with their wares reach the world's farthest ends. . . . Is it then, ye vain lordlings! ye treat us with scorn, Because titles and birth your own fortunes adorn? What worth to yourselves from high birth can accrue? Are your ancestors