I conceive that this title, in its strictest sense, involves the idea of a vast automaton, composed of various mechanical and intellectual organs, acting in uninterrupted concert for the production of a common object, all of them being subordinated to... Railway Locomotives and Cars - Page 421838Full view - About this book
| 1835 - 700 pages
...According to him, a factory is a ' vast automaton, composed of various mechanical and intellee' tual organs, acting in uninterrupted concert for the production...being subordinated to a self' regulated moving force.' An exposition of ' the scientific, ' moral, and commercial economy' of such establishments, would,... | |
| Andrew Ure - Factory system - 1835 - 520 pages
...coopers, &c., under the factory system. But I conceive that this title, in its strictest sense, involves the idea of a vast automaton, composed of various...common object, all of them being subordinated to a self-regulated moving force. If the marshalling of human beings in systematic order for the execution... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1835 - 1138 pages
...employed to attend to machines continuously impelled by a central power. According to him, a factory is a "vast automaton, composed of various mechanical...common object, all of them being subordinated to a self-regulated moving force." An exposition of " the scientiñc, moral, and commercial economy" of... | |
| George Savage White - Cotton - 1836 - 514 pages
...will be manifest. " The title of factory, in its strictest sense, involves the idea of an operation composed of various mechanical and intellectual organs,...common object, — all of them being subordinated to a self-regulated moving force. "In its precise acceptation, the factory system is of recent origin, and... | |
| Industrial arts - 1838 - 348 pages
...coopers, &c. under the factory system. But I conceive that this title, ii its strictest sense, involves the idea of a vast automaton, composed of Various...acting in uninterrupted concert for the production o a common object, all of them being subordinated to a self regulated moving force If the marshalling... | |
| Social sciences - 1882 - 1096 pages
...are dependent on one prime mover." It involves in its strictest sense " the idea of a vast automatum, composed of various mechanical and intellectual organs,...common object, all of them being subordinated to a self-regulated moving force." [Dr. Ure, Phil, of Mfgs., p. 13. So a factory becomes a scientific structure,... | |
| American social science assoc - 1882 - 200 pages
...are dependent on one prime mover." It involves in its strictest sense " the idea of a vast automatum, composed of various mechanical and intellectual organs,...common object, all of them being subordinated to a self'regulated moving force." [Dr. Ure, Phil. of Mfgs., p. 13. So a factory becomes a scientific structure,... | |
| Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - Factory system - 1886 - 472 pages
...Manufactures, pp. 13, 14. as to be almost incomprehensible, and is far too recondite for ordinary use. "An automaton composed of various mechanical and intellectual organs, acting in uninterrupted concert," is a definition of the factory system which, even if technically correct, -would be of little practical... | |
| Helen Campbell - Factory laws and legislation - 1893 - 332 pages
...army of workers had been the dream of all mechanicians ; and Ure formulated this also : — " It is the idea of a vast automaton, composed of various...production of a common object, — all of them being subordinate to a self-regulated moving force." This was the result brought about by the gradual extension... | |
| Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - Factory laws and legislation - 1894 - 240 pages
...least human supervision. Moreover, this definition is certainly too recondite for ordinary use. "An automaton composed of various mechanical and intellectual organs, acting in uninterrupted concert," is a definition of the Factory System which, even if technically correct, would be of little practical... | |
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