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" 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 40
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The Philosophy of Manufactures, Or, An Exposition of the Scientific, Moral ...

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...
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The Philosophy of Manufactures: Or, An Exposition of the Scientific, Moral ...

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...
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Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures

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...
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The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain Systematically Investigated ...

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,...
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The Mechanic's Register, Volumes 1-2

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...
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A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear ..., Volume 1

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...
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Recent Improvements in Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Being a Supplement to ...

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...
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A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines: Containing a Clear ..., Volume 1

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...
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Science Popularly Explained: The Principles of Natural and Physical Science ...

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...
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Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear ...

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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