The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1857-11-07
Growth Nf Machinery.

'Tis chapter IN modern history, the ErOWtn
Of the machine shop Six hundred years ago, Roger
Bacon explained the procession Of the equnoxes the
consequent necessity Of the reform Of the calendar,
measured the length Of the year, invented gunpowder,
and announced Gas if locking from his lofty cell
I've centuries into ours that machines be con-
struc,ea to drive rapidly than whole galley of
rowcrs could do would they need any thing but a
pilot 10 steer them. Carriages also ght be construct
ed 10 move with an incredible speed without the of
any animal. Finally, it woad not be impossible to
make machines, which, ty means of suit OF wings,
should hy in the air in the of birds But the
secret slept with Bacon. The six hundred years have
not yet fulfilled his words Two centuries ago. the
ing of timber done by hand; the carriage wheels
ran ou wooden axleS the land titled by wooden
plows. And it little purpose that they had pit
coal. or that looms improved, unless Watt and
Stephenson had taught them to work force pumps and
power looms by The great strides all taken
within the last hundred years. The Life of Sir Robert
Peel who died the other day, the model Englishman,
very properly has for front,pecc drawing of the
spinning Jenny, which the web of his fortunes.
llardgreaves invented the spinning jenny, and died in
the workhouse. Arkwright improved the invention,
and the machine dispensed with the work Of ninetynine
men that is, one spinner could do much work one
hundred had done before The loom improved further.
But the men would sometimes strike for wages, and
combine against the masters, and, about o2O3O much
fear was felt lest the trade would be drawn away by
these interruptions, and the emigration Of the spnners
to Belgium and the United States.
Iron and steel are very ohedent. Whether it were
possible make spinner that would not rebel, nor
muter, scow strike for wages, nor emigrate
At the solicitations of the masters, after mob and riot
at Staybridge, Mr. Roberts, of Manchester, undertook
to create this peaceful fellow instead of the quarresome
fellow God had made After few trials he succeeded
and, in 1880, procured patent for his sefactng mule
u creation the delight of mill owners, and destined
they said, to order among the industrious class
es machine requiring only child's hand to piece
the broken yarns. As Arkwrght had destroyed domes
tic spinning Roberts destroyed tue factory spinner
The power OF machinery in Great Britain in mills has
been computed to be equal to 600,000,O00 men, one
man being ablc by the aid If steam, to do the work
which required $50 to accomplish fifty years ago
The production has been commensurate. England al
ready had this aborous race rich SOIL wood, COAL lro1
and favorable climate. Eight hundred years ago, com
merce had made it rich, and it recorded England
is the richest Of all the northern nations The Norman
historians recite, that in 1867 William carried will
him into Normandy from Englan more gold and sllve
than had ever before been in Gaul But when to thu
labor and trade and these native resources, addet
this goblin of stean with it's myriad arms, tired
working night and day everlastingy, the amassing o
property has run OF all figures 1t makes the moto
of the last ninety years The steam pipe has added t.
her population and the equivalent OF four i've Eng
lands Forty thousand ships entered in Loyds list
The yield Of wheat has gone from 900 600 quarter
IN the time OF the Stuarts 10 l0,VVV,VVO III 1cof.
thousand million Of pounds sterling said to com
pose the floating money OF commerce In 1913, Lor
John Russell stated that the people OF this country ha
laid out 3Oo,0O0000 Of capital in railways in the las
four years. But better than these soundin
figures is the estimate that there is wealth enough i
England to support the entire population in dleness 70
one year. The wise versatile, all giving machiner
make chises, roads, locomotives, telegraphs. Whit
worth divides bar to mlionth Of an inch Stcar
wines huge into wreaths, as easily as it braid
straw and ves with the volcanic forces which twise
f the strata It can clohe single mountains with shi
oaks make sword blades that will cut barrels in two
In Egypt it plant forests and bring rain after thre
thousand years Already it is ruddering the balloon
and the next will be fought in the air. But al
other machine more potent u England than steam,
the Bank votes an issue of bls population is sm'
lated and cities rise it refuses oans and emigrat'o
empties tue country; trade sinks; revolutions brea
;. out kings are e;hroned. BY these new agents OF
: social system is moulded. Ey dint Of steam and
. money, war and changed Natious hay
lost their old omaiposcuee; the patriotic tie does NJ
= hold Nations getting obsolete; We 60 and ii,
wherc we will Steam has enabled man to choose wh
! Law they will live under. Money makes place for then