The Rise of the Great Manufacturers in England, 1760-1790H.R. Haas, printers, 1919 - 95 páginas |
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... statement of facts give rise to serious difficulties in the exercise of critical judgment . But in view of the importance of contemporaneous opinion in stimulating invention and economic progress and in affording evidence of the ...
... statement of facts give rise to serious difficulties in the exercise of critical judgment . But in view of the importance of contemporaneous opinion in stimulating invention and economic progress and in affording evidence of the ...
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... statements that the society attempted , with some measure of success , to solve the problem of mechanical spinning before the time of Hargreaves . In 1783 , two years before Cartwright's first power - loom patent , W. Bailey ...
... statements that the society attempted , with some measure of success , to solve the problem of mechanical spinning before the time of Hargreaves . In 1783 , two years before Cartwright's first power - loom patent , W. Bailey ...
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... statement that the people of the time were extensively interested in mechanical improvement . Men were stirred by a keen sense of change and readjustment reaching to the material foundations of society . The general aim , which ...
... statement that the people of the time were extensively interested in mechanical improvement . Men were stirred by a keen sense of change and readjustment reaching to the material foundations of society . The general aim , which ...
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... statements or estimates . Crompton's machine often carried 150 spindles and drew weft " to an exact fineness up to 150 hanks in the pound . " A tourist in the north of England wrote of the " incredible circumstance ' ' of one pound of ...
... statements or estimates . Crompton's machine often carried 150 spindles and drew weft " to an exact fineness up to 150 hanks in the pound . " A tourist in the north of England wrote of the " incredible circumstance ' ' of one pound of ...
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... statement is made that 61 of the streets had been " laid out but not built upon . " Before the remodeling of the city , the tendency seems to have been to concentrate the new population on the existing thorough- fares ; afterwards , a ...
... statement is made that 61 of the streets had been " laid out but not built upon . " Before the remodeling of the city , the tendency seems to have been to concentrate the new population on the existing thorough- fares ; afterwards , a ...
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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'.