When each process has been reduced to the use of some simple tool, the union of all these tools, actuated by one moving power, constitutes a machine. In contriving tools and simplifying processes, the operative workmen are, perhaps, most successful; but... On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures - Pagina 117door Charles Babbage - 1846 - 408 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1834 - 434 pagina’s
...that, if the hammer always tails from the same height, its effect must be always the some. 167. When each process has been reduced to the use of some simple...habits to combine into one machine these. scattered arte. A previoos education as я workman in the peculiar trade is undoubtedly a valuable preliminary... | |
| Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - 1901 - 824 pagina’s
...however ingenious. The nature of machinery, as distinguished from mere tools, is thus described : "When each process has been reduced to the use of some simple...actuated by one moving power, constitutes a machine" (Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, p. 136 ; cp. Marx, Kapital I. xiii. 3SO note). The examples... | |
| Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Henry Higgs - 1926 - 954 pagina’s
...however ingenious. The nature of machinery, as distinguished from mere tools, is thus described : " When each process has been reduced to the use of some simple...actuated by one moving power, constitutes a machine " (Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, p. 136 ; cp. Marx, Kapital I. xiii. 389 note). The examples... | |
| Charles Babbage - 1989 - 386 pagina’s
...that, if the hammer always falls from the same height, its effect must be always the same. (225.) When each process has been reduced to the use of some simple...a workman in the peculiar trade, is undoubtedly a valuable preliminary; but in order to make such combinations with any reasonable expectation of success,... | |
| Iwan Rhys Morus - 1998 - 350 pagina’s
...efficiency. This was the essence of a machine: "when each process has been reduced to the use of a simple tool, the union of all these tools, actuated by one moving power, constitutes a machine." Machinery enforced uniformity of work and uniformity of product. "Uniformity and steadiness in the... | |
| Peter Krass - 2000 - 518 pagina’s
...perceive, that, if the hammer always falls from the same height, its effect must be always the same. When each process has been reduced to the use of some simple...a workman in the peculiar trade, is undoubtedly a valuable preliminary; but in order to make such combinations with any reasonable expectation of success,... | |
| Saree Makdisi - 2003 - 432 pagina’s
...constituted, resides with a supervisory power that stands outside and above the narrative flow itself. "When each process has been reduced to the use of some simple...actuated by one moving power, constitutes a machine," Babbage writes, adding that, "in contriving tools and simplifying processes, the operative workmen... | |
| Saree Makdisi - 2007 - 422 pagina’s
...all these tools, actuated by one moving power, constitutes a machine," Babbage writes, adding that, "in contriving tools and simplifying processes, the...habits to combine into one machine these scattered arts."137 The control and management that can indeed draw together these scattered arts now pertain... | |
| Guang-Zhen Sun - 2005 - 312 pagina’s
...perceive, that, if the hammer always falls from the same height, its effect must be always the same. When each process has been reduced to the use of some simple...a workman in the peculiar trade, is undoubtedly a valuable preliminary; but in order to make such combinations with any reasonable expectation of success,... | |
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