 | 1835 - 700 Seiten
...invention, it must have gone on with a retarding pace, in consequence of the increasing cost of motive power, and would, long ere now, have experienced,...the price of horses, and scarcity of waterfalls, an unsurmountable barrier to further advancement : could horses, even at the low prices to which their... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 1138 Seiten
...invention, it must have gone on with a retarding pace, in consequence of the increasing cost of motive power, and would, long ere now, have experienced,...rival, steam, has kept them, be employed to drive a cotton mill at the present day, they would devour all the profits of the manufacturer. " Steam engines... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1835 - 504 Seiten
...invention, it must have gone on with a retarding pace, in consequence of the increasing cost of motive power, and would, long ere now, have experienced,...rival, steam, has kept them, be employed to drive a cotton mill at the present day, they would devour all the profits of the manufacturer. Steam-engines... | |
 | 1838 - 712 Seiten
...invention, it must have gone on with a retarding pace, in consequence of the increasing cost of motive power, and would long ere now, have experienced, in...rival, steam, has kept them, be •employed to drive a cotton mill at the preeent day, they would devour all the profits of the manufacturer. Steam-engines... | |
 | 1838 - 348 Seiten
...invention, it must have gone on with a retarding pace, in consequence of the increasing cost of motive power, and would long ere now, have experienced, in...rival, steam, has kept them, be employed to drive a cotton mill at the present day, they would devour all the profits of the manufacturer. Steam-engines... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1852 - 268 Seiten
...invention, it must have gone ou at a retarding pace, in consequence of the increasing cost of motive power, and would long ere now have experienced, in the price of horses and seareity of waterfalls, an insurmountable barrier to further advancement. Could horses, even at the... | |
 | John Weale - 1854 - 1004 Seiten
...invention, it must have gone on with a retarding pace, in consequence of the increasing cost of motive power, and would, long ere now, have experienced in...prices to which their rival, steam, has kept them, he employed to drive a cotton-mill at the present day, they would devour all the profits of the manufacturer.... | |
 | Edwin Troxell Freedley - 1867 - 638 Seiten
...superintendence, the animal power would be greatly more ex36 PHILADELPHIA AND ITS MANUFACTURES. pensive than the steam power. There are many engines made...present day, they would devour all the profits of the manufacturer.1 " Water power has heretofore been considered cheaper, especially for small manufacturing... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1967 - 504 Seiten
...invention, it must have gone on with a retarding pace, in consequence of the increasing cost of motive power, and would, long ere now, have experienced,...rival, steam, has kept them, be employed to drive a cotton mill at the present day, they would devour all the profits of the manufacturer. Steam-engines... | |
 | Roderick Floud, Paul Johnson - 2003 - 564 Seiten
...Watt's invention it must have done with a retarding pace in consequence of the increasing cost of motive power, and would, long ere now, have experienced in...rival, steam, has kept them, be employed to drive a cotton mill at the present day, they would devour all the profits of the manufacturer. Steam engines... | |
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... multitude of valuable horses would have been worn out in doing the service of these machines ! and what a vast quantity of grain would they have consumed ! Had British industry not been aided by Watt's invention, it must have gone on with a retarding... 