 I have seen a small manufactory of this kind, where ten men only were employed, and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor, and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary...  Chambers' Edinburgh Journal - Página 1491841Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas Hodgskin - 1827 - 318 páginas
...distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of this kind, where ten men only...make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons therefore,... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1828 - 348 páginas
...distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed, and were some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations : but though they were very... | |
 | Samuel Read - 1829 - 444 páginas
...distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only...make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore,... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1830 - 420 páginas
...distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of this kind, where ten men only...operations. But though they were very poor, and therefore indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exeited themselves,... | |
 | Warren Colburn - 1836 - 166 páginas
...any thing that he did not understand, he asked his father or mother to explain it to him. If they had when they exerted themselves, make, among them, about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are, in a pound, upwards of four thousand pins, of a middle size. Those ten persons, therefore,... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 páginas
...in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a «mall manufacury of this kind, where ten men only were employed, and...make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten person», therefore,... | |
 | Joseph Salway Eisdell - 1839 - 636 páginas
...distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of this kind, where ten men only...make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore,... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1839 - 452 páginas
...distinct hands, though in others the " same man will sometimes perform two or three of " them. I have seen a small manufactory of this " kind where ten men only...among them about twelve " pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound " upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. " Those ten persons, therefore,... | |
 | 1829 - 474 páginas
...distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only...make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of 4000 pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore, could make... | |
 | 1848 - 660 páginas
...distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of this kind, where ten men only...or three distinct operations. But, though they were poor, and, therefore, but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when... | |
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