Days at the Factories: Or, The Manufacturing Industry of Great Britain Described, and Illustrated by Numerous Engravings of Machines and Processes. Series I.- LondonC. Knight & Company, 1843 - 548 páginas |
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... extent , and whether the mode of production partakes more of the factory or of the handicraft character . Again , the means of transit from one town to another depend in a striking degree on the relative positions of the two towns with ...
... extent , and whether the mode of production partakes more of the factory or of the handicraft character . Again , the means of transit from one town to another depend in a striking degree on the relative positions of the two towns with ...
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... extent than the provinces can exhibit ; and the like may be said of the beverage known as ' soda- water , ' the production of which , and of other liquids bearing some analogy to it , involve mechanical arrangements more extensive than ...
... extent than the provinces can exhibit ; and the like may be said of the beverage known as ' soda- water , ' the production of which , and of other liquids bearing some analogy to it , involve mechanical arrangements more extensive than ...
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... extent . Tailors and dress- makers are to be reckoned , not by thousands , but by tens of thousands . So it may likewise be said in reference to boots and shoes , for shoe- makers are among the most numerous of London artisans ; but ...
... extent . Tailors and dress- makers are to be reckoned , not by thousands , but by tens of thousands . So it may likewise be said in reference to boots and shoes , for shoe- makers are among the most numerous of London artisans ; but ...
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... extent in London , and to a still larger extent in some other parts of England . Among such are white - lead works , colour works , oil and varnish works , and turpentine works . When we turn our attention to the innumerable articles ...
... extent in London , and to a still larger extent in some other parts of England . Among such are white - lead works , colour works , oil and varnish works , and turpentine works . When we turn our attention to the innumerable articles ...
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... extent of book - binding is such as to warrant the construction and arrangement of a large building , on factory principles , for this purpose . The number of occupations in London whose tendency is to contri- bute to the instruction ...
... extent of book - binding is such as to warrant the construction and arrangement of a large building , on factory principles , for this purpose . The number of occupations in London whose tendency is to contri- bute to the instruction ...
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Página 255 - ... the wind ; which might extend the sight of the philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life ; and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decays of nature, and succour old age with subsidiary sight. Thus was the first artificer in glass employed, though without his own knowledge or expectation. He was facilitating and prolonging the enjoyment of light,...
Página 111 - A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Página 129 - FACTORY. 131 with the agreeable ceremony of blowing and wiping the nose, and other incidental circumstances, consumes a minute and a half. One minute and a half out of every ten, allowing sixteen hours to a...
Página 317 - How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.
Página 135 - Sometimes they use them sharp on the crown, pearking up like the spear or shaft of a steeple, standing a quarter of a yard above the crown of their heads, some more, some less, as please the fantasies of their inconstant minds.
Página 38 - Lucan tells a very good story, which, if not precisely exact, is certainly characteristical : that when the sale of Thrale's brewery was going forward, Johnson appeared bustling about, with an ink-horn and pen in his button-hole, like an exciseman ; and on being asked what he really considered to be the value of the property which was to be disposed of, answered, "We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Página 426 - And after a while, divers great ladies, with as great jealousy of the queen's displeasure, made them coaches, and rid in them up and down the countries, to the great admiration of all the beholders ; but then, by little and little, they grew usual among the nobility and others of sort, and within twenty years became a great trade of coachmaking.
Página 453 - By viewing Nature, Nature's hand-maid. Art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow : Thus fishes first to shipping did impart Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.
Página 363 - ... is made for the reception of each. The group of sheets is fixed tightly in a press, with the back edges uppermost, and a few shallow cuts are made with a saw, at right angles with the length of the book. A sewing-press consists of a flat bed or board, from which rise two end-bars, connected at the top by a crossbar. Three or more strings, according to the size of the book, are fastened by loops to the cross-bar, and are tightened down by a simple contrivance at the lower end. The sewer, seated...
Página 255 - ... of life, as would in time constitute a great part of the happiness of the world? Yet by some such fortuitous liquefaction was mankind taught to procure a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind ; which might extend the sight of the philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life;...