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Growth Of Maohinery.

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'Tis curious chapter III il osdsfiii tist3fs
the growth of the machine shop. Sixs.
hundred years ago, Roger Bacon expiaiRss
the procession of,lis equi1oxes, tia. eonsS,
quent necessity of the. reform Of tfas caiAtf,
dar, measured the length Of tie yedr. sJhs
vented gunpowdsr; and s6nounesd I'D sifs
looking from Ills lofty Eoser fsa, SInttt4s
ries into ours, .that, tnacbinescan @ con-.
structed to drive more rapidly thsn whole
galley Of rowers could do; !pof would thAY
need anStaing but pilot to steSsx shsh':
Carriages also might be constructed iet
move an incredible speed withent tbsaaise :.
ofany animal. Finally; Il would net s,&
impossible to make machines. which, byss
means of suit of wings, should 'fy ,in fhy
air in the manner of birds" But THE ZEE;
cret slept with Bacon. The six hundfed.-.
years. have not yet fulfilled his words, Two =
centuries ago, the saving Of timber wass
done by hand the carriage wheels ran d6 da :
wooden axles the land WINS TILED byy &pdba:
en- plows. Aud it was TO" littla purpose
that they had pit coal, or that looms were,
improved, unless Watt aud Stephenson had
taught them to work foree.pilmps and pow.
er looms by stcam.s The great Strides sweree
all taken within the last hundred years. Tie
Life Of Sir Robert Peel" who Isd tis OH:
erday, the model Enghshman, efypropefly.
has for frontispiece'a growing of the spins. j
ming jenny (which wove the web of Ibis forfs
tunes. Hardgreaves invented the epinnings,
jenny, and died in The ~workhouse. ARK:
wrightimproyed tl,e>invention, and Ihe,f
chine dispensed with the work 0f.nJhbtti
men thatis, one spinner could dbsSa much
work as one hundredbaf done betSfa~~ThS !,
loom improved further. But the nfehr
would sometimes strike fonFages, and SofiYdYt.
bine against the masters, and, a56hts
80, much fear was left lest the trade E6hiI
be drawn by these interruptions, and thseny-.
igtation Of the spiggers to BelginrsaSa ths
Iron and steal are veryobedientr MiAiG5
.er it were NOT possible to. mako spitiSef.
that would n3ffebel, nor rfHttes, mol: :s6S..
nor strike for wages, nor epSigTate L sAtIha
solicitations Of the masters, affef a. ana
riot afShaybrilge, Mr.. Robertk, fHIxnches.-
ter, anderook 20 ,cisste ,ti,iss csiEf1sf.
low, instead Of tlissdaarrelsome fellow God ,
and, in'l $50, procured g paIent for 1ds self.
acting mule creation tlleadeligllt: af mill
owners, and "destined,n = they said, 90 les,
tore order among: the indastriops SasIes;,Glt, ~,
a machine requiring only achildh hand 10,
piece the broken yarns. As Arkwright Had
destroyed domestic spinning, go Kabesb se&
troyed the factory spinner The bSwersof
machinery in Great Britain in mills fisx.
been computed to be eqdarto 600 600 600
men, one man being able, by the .aitfof f
steam, to do the work which required .tg50i
men to accomplish fifty yeara agS 5TtS.
production has been Commensurate Eng.
land already had this laboriouss racH ficE.
soil, wood, coal, iron and favorable sclanats{
Eight hundred years ago, con1iuesea :iisd I
made it rich, and it was recotded asf3 ma
is the richest Of all Ilfs nothern 15SfsSss
The.Norman historians recite, that sina08f,.
William carried with him into NormaaaR
from Engbmd more gold aAf .fgsf.t tfban
had ever. before bsea .iiH gaals :.
totlris LABOR; and tradess Abd ttesa. 8iH&f
stream, with its myriad q kfsIs, 1ss tifsd. '
working night and daaS esef!sliSlyl Tie
amassng. OF property HIS i6Aii ats &tk.
res: hinnsises the m6ter ofthe fAst hiasty
! Years. The steam pima has Sddsd4ahar
population apd. tlle< equivalents ot 3ouroE
FIVE Englaud& Forty tbofsand slifNNre.
entered in LloydT Iist. The yield Of .whsE;
has gone ON. from. 2,o00, ,O00 sanWtsseei1ss
.4ssG e. s|'a' q tie .s'''t''. 9 eso z
& d,osssssdd is sslili; aiiisn 81 posSis assl.bS
I hre said to compose the foHiiitisg xk
tof, commerce. IN Ie4B, Lord john 5sli
! stated thar the people, ut tlisansdnts had
latl' our E50aa0 ,O6p az ip5ss5 i NIL.
Nays adsths jak Har geasH sBdf (er
measuts ahas fhesa aaipsl Hspasi siiSf