Industrial Society in England Towards the End of the Eighteenth CenturyMacmillan, 1925 - 343 páginas |
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... earlier stages silent , lacking in the dramatic and the spectacular , overshadowed in contemporary imagination by politics and war . Records of the social forces of the time are meager and often remote from the main highways of ...
... earlier stages silent , lacking in the dramatic and the spectacular , overshadowed in contemporary imagination by politics and war . Records of the social forces of the time are meager and often remote from the main highways of ...
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... earlier lack of progress and absence of interest in technical improvement . The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been kaleidoscopic in their rapidity of change . Inventions and discoveries such as would have startled the minds ...
... earlier lack of progress and absence of interest in technical improvement . The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have been kaleidoscopic in their rapidity of change . Inventions and discoveries such as would have startled the minds ...
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... earlier times ( asserted a popular writer ) , but their genius shone , “ amid an igno- . rant and idle people , like a flambeau in a fog . ” The relatively inferior abilities of Watt and his contemporaries were effecting unique results ...
... earlier times ( asserted a popular writer ) , but their genius shone , “ amid an igno- . rant and idle people , like a flambeau in a fog . ” The relatively inferior abilities of Watt and his contemporaries were effecting unique results ...
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Witt Bowden. For the validity of the contrast between earlier times and the days of Watt and Arkwright , appeal may be ... earlier times are not exaggerated . See also Price , English Patents of Monopoly , ch . 5 . after 1790. But the ...
Witt Bowden. For the validity of the contrast between earlier times and the days of Watt and Arkwright , appeal may be ... earlier times are not exaggerated . See also Price , English Patents of Monopoly , ch . 5 . after 1790. But the ...
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... earlier times , based upon misconceptions of natural laws , were less apt to be made , and when made were more readily discerned and repudiated . This increase of knowledge was accompanied by more rigorous rules for the submission of ...
... earlier times , based upon misconceptions of natural laws , were less apt to be made , and when made were more readily discerned and repudiated . This increase of knowledge was accompanied by more rigorous rules for the submission of ...
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Annals of Agriculture Arkwright Arthur Young Board of Trade Boulton and Watt Britain capital Century of Birmingham Chamber of Manufacturers Commercial Committee Commons Journals connection Corn Laws Cotton Industry cotton manufacturers early economic eighteenth century employers England English evidence excise laws export extensive facturers farm laborers favor foreign France friendly societies fustian Gentleman's Magazine Hist History House of Commons important improvements increase industrial centers interests inventions inventors Ireland Irish Resolutions jenny Josiah Wedgwood Lancashire Langford Letter London Lord machinery machines Manchester Mercury manu manufac markets Matthew Boulton mechanical ment merchants methods monopoly Observations organization Parl parliament patent petitions Pitt Political poor population pottery production regions Report rewards Richard Arkwright Robert Peel Samuel Oldknow secured significant social Society of Arts spinning spinning jenny Staffordshire stocking frames textile tion towns Trade Papers turers various View wages wealth wool woollen manufacturers Yorkshire
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Página 14 - Making of any manner of new Manufactures within this Realm, to the true and first Inventor and Inventors of such Manufactures, which others at the Time of Making such Letters...
Página 40 - ... some one very simple object. It is naturally to be expected, therefore, that some one or other of those who are employed in each particular branch of labour should soon find out easier and readier methods of performing their own particular work, wherever the nature of it admits of such improvement.
Página 40 - I shall only observe, therefore, that the invention of all those machines by which labour is so much facilitated and abridged seems to have been originally owing to the division of labour.
Página 40 - In the progress of society, philosophy or speculation becomes, like every other employment, the principal or sole trade and occupation of a particular class of citizens. Like every other employment too, it is subdivided into a great number of different branches...
Página 301 - 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 233 - But the law has upon many occasions attempted to raise the wages of curates, and for the dignity of the church, to oblige .the rectors of parishes to give them more than the wretched maintenance which they themselves might be willing to accept of. And in both...
Página 87 - The traveller who visits [Birmingham] once in six months supposes himself well acquainted with her, but he may chance to find a street of houses in the autumn, where he saw his horse at grass in the spring.
Página 261 - A REVIEW of some of the POLITICAL EVENTS which have occurred in MANCHESTER during the LAST FIVE YEARS...
Página 67 - Pilkingtons themselves had been put into possession of their neighbours' property for precisely similar reasons, after a previous defeat of the Lancastrian party by the adherents of the house of York. Some remains of the castle existed in relatively recent times. Aikin, in his "Description of the country from thirty " to forty miles round Manchester...
Página 294 - MEDICAL SERIES. No. I. SKETCHES OF THE LIVES AND WORK OF THE HONORARY MEDICAL STAFF OF THE ROYAL INFIRMARY. From its foundation in 1752 to 1830, when it became the Royal Infirmary.