 When the human hand or the human head has been for some time occupied in any kind of work, it cannot instantly change its employment with full effect The muscles of the limbs employed have acquired a flexibility during their exertion, and those to be...  On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures - Pagina 165door Charles Babbage - 1835 - 408 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1834 - 434 pagina’s
...labor is, that time is always lost from changing from one occupation to auoth.T. When the human tiand, or the human head, has been for some time occupied...a flexibility during their exertion — and those to be put in action, a stiffness during rest — which render« every change slow and unequal in the... | |
 | Joseph Salway Eisdell - 1839 - 636 pagina’s
...trifles than applies to good purpose. " When the human hand, or the human head," says Mr. Babbage, " has been for some time occupied in any kind of work,...acquired a flexibility during their exertion, and those to be put in action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in the commencement.... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1849 - 710 pagina’s
...one operation to another is as obvious in mental processes as in those which are purely mechanical. " When the human hand or the human head has been for...acquired a flexibility during their exertion, and those to be put into action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in the commencement.... | |
 | 1849 - 710 pagina’s
...one operation to another is as obvious in mental processes as in those which are purely mechanical. " When the human hand or the human head has been for...acquired a flexibility during their exertion, and those to be put into action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in me commencement... | |
 | 1849 - 716 pagina’s
...operation to another is as obvious in mental processes as in those which are purely mechanical. '• \Vhen the human hand or the human head has been for some...acquired a flexibility during their exertion, and those to be put into action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in the commencement... | |
 | James William Gilbart - 1856 - 388 pagina’s
...one operation to another is as obvious in mental processes as in those which are purely mechanical. " When the human hand or the human head has been for...acquired a flexibility during their exertion, and those to be put into action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in the commencement.... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1859 - 586 pagina’s
...hand from one employment to another." " When the human hand, or the human head," adds Mr. Babbage, " has been for some time occupied in any kind of work,...limbs employed have acquired a flexibility during then- exertion, and those not in action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1865 - 462 pagina’s
...this connection, that when the hand or the head has been for some time occupied in any kind of special work, it cannot instantly change its employment with...a flexibility during their exertion — and those to be put into action a stiffening daring rest — which renders ervery change slow and unequal in... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1868 - 906 pagina’s
...this connection, that when the hand or the head has been for some time occupied in any kind of special work, it cannot instantly change its employment with...employed have acquired a flexibility during their exertion—and those to be put into action a stiffening during rest — which renders every change... | |
 | James William Gilbart - 1871 - 678 pagina’s
...one operation to another is as obvious in mental processes as in those which are purely mechanical. " When the human hand or the human head has been for...it cannot instantly change its employment with full eflFect. The muscles of the limbs employed have acquired a flexibility during their exertion, and those... | |
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