The American system of manufactures: the report of the Committee on the Machinery of the United States 1855, and the special reports of George Wallis and Joseph Whitworth 1854Edinburgh U.P., 1969 - 440 pages |
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... result of delays which were regarded as intolerable that ( 1 ) the Board of Ordnance decided to send a com- mission to the United States , ( 2 ) the Small Arms Committee was formed and held extensive hearings on the state of the arms ...
... result of delays which were regarded as intolerable that ( 1 ) the Board of Ordnance decided to send a com- mission to the United States , ( 2 ) the Small Arms Committee was formed and held extensive hearings on the state of the arms ...
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... result was the attainment of perfection and economy such as I had never met with before ; one of the important results of this was the employ- ment of unskilled labour as the agent for managing the machines . That last condition was one ...
... result was the attainment of perfection and economy such as I had never met with before ; one of the important results of this was the employ- ment of unskilled labour as the agent for managing the machines . That last condition was one ...
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... result of the first efforts of a people , however ingenious , whose experience in many of those branches of manufacture which in Europe have claimed the exclusive attention of skilled artizans for ages , does not date so far back as a ...
... result of the first efforts of a people , however ingenious , whose experience in many of those branches of manufacture which in Europe have claimed the exclusive attention of skilled artizans for ages , does not date so far back as a ...
Contents
Introduction by Nathan Rosenberg | 1 |
Orders and Instructions received by Committee 91 | 91 |
Journal of the Committee 98 | 98 |
Copyright | |
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