Karl Marx' 'Capital' in Lithographs page 42. After all, that is not the aim of the capitalist use of machinery. As with every other advance in the productivity of labor, machinery is intended to cheapen commodities, and to diminish the part of the working day in which the worker works for himself while increasing the part of the working day which he gives to the capitalist for nothing.
Machinery is a means for producing surplus value.
The machine which begins the industrial revolution is one which replaces the worker handling a single tool, by a mechanism operating simultaneously a number of identical or similar tools, and driven by a single motor power, whatever the form of that power may be. Here we have a machine, but only as an elementary factor of machino-facture. . . . Wind was found to be uncertain and difficult to control. For all that, the use of water-power as the chief form of power was beset with difficulties. The greatness of Watt's genius is shown in the specifications of the patent he took out in April, 1784.