 | George Savage White - 1836 - 508 pagina’s
...machinery which are needed in the carding, drawing, roving, and spinning processes of a cotton mill. When the first water-frames, for spinning cotton,...him to perceive, his energy of will enabled him to realise with such rapidity and success, as would have done honour to the most influential individuals,... | |
 | 1838 - 712 pagina’s
...sixty years ago, mankind were little aware of the miirhiy revolution which the new system of "labor wus destined by Providence to achieve, not only in the...with such rapidity and success, as would have done honor to the most influential individuals, but were truly wonderful in that obscure and indigent artisan.... | |
 | 1838 - 348 pagina’s
...revolution which the new system of labor was destined by Providence to achieve, not only in the structure cf British society, but in the fortunes of the world...impelled with great velocity by some indefatigable phsyical power. What his judgment so clearly led him to perceive, his energy of will enabled him to... | |
 | Benjamin Love - 1839 - 296 pagina’s
...conductive to the commercial greatness of a nation, and the comforts of mankind, home industry can become, when no longer proportioned in its results...mechanical fingers and arms, regularly impelled with equal precision and velocity by some indefatigable physical agent, is apparent to every visitor of... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1844 - 458 pagina’s
...longer dependent upon the fitful and capricious nature of muscular exertion, but when it should be made to consist in the task of guiding the work of...great velocity by some indefatigable physical power; and as the man whose energy enabled him to realize, with astonishing rapidity and success, what his... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1844 - 458 pagina’s
...longer dependent upon the fitful and capricious nature of muscular exertion, but when it should be made to consist in the task of guiding the work of...and arms, regularly impelled with great velocity by somo indefatigable physical power; and as the man whose energy enabled him to realize, with astonishing... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1844 - 756 pagina’s
...its remits to muscular effort, which is by its nature fitful and capricious, but when made to conski in the task of guiding the work of mechanical fingers and arms regularly impelled, with equal precision and velocity, by some indefatigable physical agent, is apparent to every visiter of... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1856 - 1140 pagina’s
...conducive to the commercial greatness of a nation, and the comforts of mankind, human industry can become, when no longer proportioned in its results...mechanical fingers and arms regularly impelled, with equal precision and velocity, by some indefatigable physical agent, is apparent to every visitor of... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1860 - 972 pagina’s
...conducive to the commercial greatness of a nation, and the comforts of mankind, human industry can become when no longer proportioned in its results...mechanical fingers and arms regularly impelled, with equal precision and velocity, by some indefatigable physical agent, is apparent to every visitor of... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1870 - 1134 pagina’s
...conducive to the commercial greatness of a nation, and the comforts of mankind, human industry can become, when no longer proportioned in its results...consist in the task of guiding the work of mechanical fingeis and arms regularly impelled, with equal precision and velocity, by some indefatigable physical... | |
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Arkwright alone had the sagacity to discern, and the boldness to predict, in glowing language, how vastly productive human industry would become, when no longer proportioned in its results to muscular effort, which is by its nature fitful and capricious,... 
