The Rise of the Great Manufacturers in England, 1760-1790H.R. Haas, printers, 1919 - 95 páginas |
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... I. The Era of Invention 1 ... 26 ..... II . The Economic Basis of the New Industrial Group III . The General Chamber of Manufacturers of Great Britain 49 Bibliography 82 VII UNIV . OF THE RISE OF THE GREAT MANUFACTURERS IN.
... I. The Era of Invention 1 ... 26 ..... II . The Economic Basis of the New Industrial Group III . The General Chamber of Manufacturers of Great Britain 49 Bibliography 82 VII UNIV . OF THE RISE OF THE GREAT MANUFACTURERS IN.
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... basis of the former class was the control of natural resources ; the basis of the latter was an elaborate and monopolistic commercial system . The great manufacturers , who rose rapidly to a sense of unity and a position of power during ...
... basis of the former class was the control of natural resources ; the basis of the latter was an elaborate and monopolistic commercial system . The great manufacturers , who rose rapidly to a sense of unity and a position of power during ...
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... basis of their pub- lic value . This work opposed the idea of the superiority of the " polite arts , " and asserted that these are of much less value than " new inventions and discoveries in the arts and sciences . " Popular support of ...
... basis of their pub- lic value . This work opposed the idea of the superiority of the " polite arts , " and asserted that these are of much less value than " new inventions and discoveries in the arts and sciences . " Popular support of ...
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... basis of Italy's superiority in the manufacture of silk . 18 In contrast with the paucity of special rewards for new inventions before 1760 , the period immediately following abounds with such rewards . George III on several occasions ...
... basis of Italy's superiority in the manufacture of silk . 18 In contrast with the paucity of special rewards for new inventions before 1760 , the period immediately following abounds with such rewards . George III on several occasions ...
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... basis of the praise generously bestowed upon the society , and on the ground of the public bene- fits accruing from its work . Samuel More , the secretary , wrote that no nation had ever received " more real advantage from any public ...
... basis of the praise generously bestowed upon the society , and on the ground of the public bene- fits accruing from its work . Samuel More , the secretary , wrote that no nation had ever received " more real advantage from any public ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Aikin Annals of Agriculture Annual Register Arkwright Arthur Young Average annual number Berkeley Berkeley Berkeley LIBRARY Birmingham Britain CALIFORNIA LIBRARY Chamber of Manufacturers chines Chron Committee Commons Journals Commons on Irish cotton manufacturers cotton tax Daily Advertiser Dossie Edmund Cartwright English European Magazine Evidence taken excise export facturers foreign French 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 stocking frame textile tion trade Transactions treaty with France UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA various wool woollen manufacturers writers
Pasajes populares
Página 12 - TRANSACTIONS of the Society instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, with the Premiums offered in the year 1783.
Página 67 - That it is expedient for the general benefit of the British empire, that the importation of articles from foreign countries...
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 85 - Report of the lords of the Committee of council, appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to trade and foreign plantations, upon the two questions referred to by them by His Majesty's order in council, of the I4th of January last, viz.
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 54 - 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' glories entailed upon you ? And is your lazy pomp of much use to a nation?
Página 54 - To mankind all at large they are factors and friends, And their praise with their wares reach the world's farthest ends. Mancunium ! and thine fill in part the glad strains, Which the bard rudely pours on the wild Russian plains. In thanks to thy sons the bleak north clad in snows Joins with those o'er whose head the sun furiously glows.
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'.