MANUFACTURE is a word, which, in the vicissitude of language, has come to signify the reverse of its intrinsic meaning, for it now denotes every extensive product of art, which is made by machinery, with little or no aid of the human hand ; so that the... Railway Locomotives and Cars - Page 401838Full view - About this book
| Andrew Ure - Factory system - 1835 - 520 pages
...Industry. MANUFACTURE is a word, which, in the vicissitude of language, has come to signify the reverse of its intrinsic meaning, for it now denotes every...manufacture is that which dispenses entirely with manual labour. The philosophy of manufactures is therefore an exposition of the general principles, on which... | |
| Andrew Ure - Factory system - 1835 - 504 pages
...word, which, in the vicissitude of language, has come to signify the reverse of its intrinsicmeaning, for it now denotes every extensive product of art,...manufacture is that which dispenses entirely with manual labour. The philosophy of manufactures is therefore an exposition of the general principles, on which... | |
| George Savage White - Cotton - 1836 - 514 pages
...societies. Manufacture is a word which, in the vicissitude of language, has come to signify the reverse of its intrinsic meaning: for it now denotes every...manufacture is that which dispenses entirely with manual labour. The philosophy of manufactures is to modify the texture, form, or composition of natural objects... | |
| Andrew Ure - Cotton growing - 1836 - 482 pages
...away. " Manufacture is a word which, in the vicissitude of language, has come to signify the reverse of its intrinsic meaning, for it now denotes every...manufacture is that which dispenses entirely with manual labour." In fact cotton, wool, flax, and silk mills, the four subdivisions, of the factory system,... | |
| Industrial arts - 1838 - 348 pages
...come to signify the reverse of its intrinsic meaning, for it now denotes every extensive product ol art, which is made by machinery, with little or no...with manual labor. The philosophy of manufactures is therefore an exposition of the general principles, on which productive industry should he conducted... | |
| Andrew Ure - Industries - 1844 - 756 pages
...the vicissitude of language, it has now come to signify every extensive product of art which is male by machinery, with little or no aid of the human hand,...that which dispenses entirely with manual labor.* It is in our modern cotton and flax mills that automatic operations are displayed to most advantage... | |
| Andrew Ure - Industrial arts - 1845 - 312 pages
...definition : " Manufacture is a word which, in the vicissitude of language, has come to signify the reverse of its intrinsic meaning, for it now denotes every extensive product of an which is made by machinery, with little or no aid of the human hand ; so that the most perfect manufacture... | |
| Andrew Ure - Industrial arts - 1856 - 1140 pages
...Manufacture is a word which, in the vicissitude of language, has come to signify the reverse of its literal intrinsic meaning ; for it now denotes every extensive...little or no aid of the human hand ; so that the most peifect manufacture is that which dispenses entirely with manual labor. In every well-governed state... | |
| David Ames Wells - Science - 1856 - 598 pages
...make); but in the changes of language it has come to signify the opposite of its real meaning, and now denotes every extensive product of art which is made by machinery, with little or no aid from the hum-ail hand. Q. What is now considered the most PERFECT MANUFACTURE ? A. That which entirely... | |
| Andrew Ure - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 972 pages
...of industry executed by the hands ; but, in the vicissitude of language, it hae now come to signify every extensive product of art which is made by machinery,...manufacture is that which dispenses entirely with manual labour. It is our modern cotton and flax mills that automatic operations are displayed to most advantage... | |
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