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... Revolution 3 II . Sir Richard Arkwright 16 III . Mechanical Inventions 30 IV . The Factory System 46 V. The Factory Towns 64 VI . Chartism 85 VII . The Factory and Social Progress 99 AS INTRODUCTION S you approach the City of the Din-
... Revolution 3 II . Sir Richard Arkwright 16 III . Mechanical Inventions 30 IV . The Factory System 46 V. The Factory Towns 64 VI . Chartism 85 VII . The Factory and Social Progress 99 AS INTRODUCTION S you approach the City of the Din-
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... mechanical de- vice which saved time and exertion to the weaver and nearly doubled the daily pro- duct of his loom . The increased demand for yarn led to many experiments , and at last a machine was produced upon which many threads ...
... mechanical de- vice which saved time and exertion to the weaver and nearly doubled the daily pro- duct of his loom . The increased demand for yarn led to many experiments , and at last a machine was produced upon which many threads ...
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... Mechanical invention contributed to the force of the earlier movement- the in- vention of printing and of the mariner's compass so that side by side with the scholars restoring to the world its lost herit- age of learning , craftsmen ...
... Mechanical invention contributed to the force of the earlier movement- the in- vention of printing and of the mariner's compass so that side by side with the scholars restoring to the world its lost herit- age of learning , craftsmen ...
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... mechanical invention was merely an aid , while the Industrial Revolution was due in an important measure to machinery . The movement began in the cotton indus- try , but soon a similar expansion occurred in all other manufactures ...
... mechanical invention was merely an aid , while the Industrial Revolution was due in an important measure to machinery . The movement began in the cotton indus- try , but soon a similar expansion occurred in all other manufactures ...
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... much to its influence , be- comes of vast importance . The first chap- ter relates to brilliant achievements in the field of mechanical invention . Then fol- lows the dismal story of how a multitude of craftsmen THE FACTORY.
... much to its influence , be- comes of vast importance . The first chap- ter relates to brilliant achievements in the field of mechanical invention . Then fol- lows the dismal story of how a multitude of craftsmen THE FACTORY.
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Page 80 - An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in Cotton and other Mills and Cotton and other Factories...
Page 94 - MEN of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low? Wherefore weave with toil and care The rich robes your tyrants wear...
Page 94 - Sow seed — but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth — let no impostor heap; Weave robes — let not the idle wear; Forge arms — in your defence to bear.
Page 35 - It was no uncommon thing for a weaver to walk three or four miles in a morning, and call on five or six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day ; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual, a new ribbon, or gown, was necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner.
Page 31 - Within one room being large and long, There stood two hundred looms full strong: Two hundred men the truth is so, Wrought in these looms all in a row.
Page 53 - This great increase of the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.
Page 94 - Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many - they are few.
Page 79 - ... boys, apprenticed by a parish in London to one manufacturer, had been transferred to another, and had been found by some benevolent persons in a state of absolute famine. Another case more horrible had come to his knowledge while on a Committee...
Page 68 - Meanwhile, at social Industry's command, How quick, how vast an increase! From the germ Of some poor hamlet, rapidly produced Here a huge town, continuous and compact, Hiding the face of earth for leagues — and there, Where not a habitation stood before, Abodes of men irregularly massed Like trees in forests, — spread through spacious tracts, O'er which the smoke of unremitting fires Hangs permanent, and plentiful as wreaths Of vapour glittering in the morning sun.
Page 21 - July in that year, he stated that he "had by great study and long application invented a new piece of machinery, never before found out, practised, or used, for the making of weft or yarn from conon, flax, and wool; which would be of great utility to a great many manufacturers, as well as to his Majesty's subjects in general, by employing a great number of poor people in working the said machinery, and by making the said weft or yarn much superior in quality to any ever heretofore manufactured or...