On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
Charles Babbage · English
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On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
Charles Babbage · English
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INTRODUCTION. The object of the present volume is to point out the effects and the advantages which arise from the use of tools and machines;—to endeavour to classify their modes of action;—and to trace both the causes and the consequences of applying machinery to supersede the skill and power of the human arm. A view of the mechanical part of the subject will, in the first instance, occupy our attention, and to this the first section of the work will be devoted. The first chapter of
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