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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... produced enormous quantities of the various cotton fabrics , while Norwich contributes its crape , Derby its silks , Coventry its ribbons , Nottingham its bobbinet and machine - made lace , and Bedfordshire its straw - plait - omitting ...
... produced enormous quantities of the various cotton fabrics , while Norwich contributes its crape , Derby its silks , Coventry its ribbons , Nottingham its bobbinet and machine - made lace , and Bedfordshire its straw - plait - omitting ...
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... produced in London ( and those which are can hardly come within the class of factory pro- duce ) , the arrangements ... produce their results by the slender needle and the supple thread , by dexterity of finger , by patience and ...
... produced in London ( and those which are can hardly come within the class of factory pro- duce ) , the arrangements ... produce their results by the slender needle and the supple thread , by dexterity of finger , by patience and ...
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... produced in the north of England . Saw - mills for timber have come prominently into use ; but this can scarcely be called a branch of manufacture . The painter is another whose labours must be classed here , as those of an artisan ...
... produced in the north of England . Saw - mills for timber have come prominently into use ; but this can scarcely be called a branch of manufacture . The painter is another whose labours must be classed here , as those of an artisan ...
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... produced in Lancashire , the London watchmaker being merely the workman who puts together the separate parts made by others . Proposals have recently been made to establish what might correctly be termed a watch factory ; but up to the ...
... produced in Lancashire , the London watchmaker being merely the workman who puts together the separate parts made by others . Proposals have recently been made to establish what might correctly be termed a watch factory ; but up to the ...
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... produced on a scale which totally eclipses the productions of the provinces . Nay , there is perhaps not one occupation , throughout the whole range of productive industry , in which the metropolis maintains a more marked pre - eminence ...
... produced on a scale which totally eclipses the productions of the provinces . Nay , there is perhaps not one occupation , throughout the whole range of productive industry , in which the metropolis maintains a more marked pre - eminence ...
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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;...