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Page 369 - that journeymen, workmen, or other persons who shall enter into any combination to obtain an advance, or to fix the rate of wages, or to lessen or alter the hours or duration of the time of working, or to decrease the quantity of work, or to induce another to depart from his service before the end of the time or term for which he is hired, or to quit or return...
Page 448 - ... times charged equally to all persons, and after the same rate, whether per ton per mile or otherwise, in respect of all passengers, and of all goods or carriages of the same description, and conveyed or propelled by a like carriage or engine, passing only over the same portion of the line of railway under the same circumstances ; and no reduction or advance in any such tolls shall be made either directly or indirectly in favour of or against any particular company or person travelling upon or...
Page 311 - I had entered the Green by the gate at the foot of Charlotte Street, and had passed the old washing-house. I was thinking upon the engine at the time, and had gone as far as the herd's house, when the idea came into my mind that as steam was an elastic body it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it, and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder.
Page 367 - An Act to consolidate and amend the laws relative to the arbitration of disputes between masters and workmen...
Page 420 - Committee to believe that the substitution of inanimate for animal power, in draught on common roads, is one of the most important improvements in the means of internal communication ever introduced. Its practicability they consider to have been fully established ; its general adoption will take place more or less rapidly, in proportion as the attention of scientific men shall be drawn by public encouragement to further improvement.
Page 448 - ... at all times charged equally to all persons, and after the same rate, whether per ton, per mile, or otherwise, in respect...
Page 235 - The change . . . was sudden and violent. The great inventions were all made in a comparatively short space of time. ... In little more than twenty years all the great inventions of Watt, Arkwright, and Boulton had been completed, . . . and the modern factory system had fairly...
Page 411 - The compulsorily insured trades were building, construction of works, shipbuilding, mechanical engineering, ironfounding, construction of vehicles and sawmilling carried on in connection with any other insured trade or of a kind commonly so carried oa Every workman in those trades had to have an
Page 287 - ... be little difficulty in producing and repeating them. Full of these ideas, I immediately employed a carpenter and smith to carry them into effect. As soon as the machine was finished, I got a weaver to put in the warp, which was of such materials as sail-cloth is usually made of.
Page 331 - I conceive that this title, in its strictest sense, involves the idea of a vast automaton, composed of various mechanical and intellectual organs, acting in uninterrupted concert for the production of a common object, all of them being subordinated to a self-regulated moving force.