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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION: STATEMENT OF THE OBJECT AND PLAN OF THE WORK
- CHAPTER I SOURCES OF THE ADVANTAGES ARISING FROM MACHINERY AND MANUFACTURES
- CHAPTER II ACCUMULATING POWER
- CHAPTER III REGULATING POWER
- CHAPTER IV INCREASE AND DIMINUTION OF VELOCITY
- CHAPTER V EXTENDING TIME OF ACTION OF FORCES
- CHAPTER VI SAVING TIME IN NATURAL OPERATIONS
- CHAPTER VII EXERTING FORCES TOO GREAT FOR HUMAN POWER, AND EXECUTING OPERATIONS TOO DELICATE FOR HUMAN TOUCH
- CHAPTER VIII REGISTERING OPERATIONS
- CHAPTER IX ECONOMY OF MATERIALS EMPLOYED
- CHAPTER X OF THE IDENTITY OF THE WORK WHEN IT IS OF THE SAME KIND, AND OF ITS ACCURACY WHEN OF DIFFERENT KINDS
- CHAPTER XI OF COPYING
- CHAPTER XII ON THE METHOD OF OBSERVING MANUFACTORIES
- CHAPTER XIII ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAKING AND MANUFACTURING
- CHAPTER XIV ON THE INFLUENCE OF VERIFICATION ON PRICE
- CHAPTER XV ON THE INFLUENCE OF DURABILITY ON PRICE
- CHAPTER XVI ON PRICE, AS MEASURED BY MONEY
- CHAPTER XVII OF RAW MATERIALS
- CHAPTER XVIII OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR
- CHAPTER XIX ON THE DIVISION OF MENTAL LABOUR
- CHAPTER XX ON THE SEPARATE COST OF EACH PROCESS IN A MANUFACTURE
- CHAPTER XXI ON THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF LARGE FACTORIES
- CHAPTER XXII ON THE POSITION OF GREAT FACTORIES
- CHAPTER XXIII ON OVER-MANUFACTURING
- CHAPTER XXIV INQUIRIES PREVIOUS TO COMMENCING ANY MANUFACTORY
- CHAPTER XXV ON CONTRIVING MACHINERY
- CHAPTER XXVI PROPER CIRCUMSTANCES FOR THE APPLICATION OF MACHINERY
- CHAPTER XXVII ON THE DURATION OF MACHINERY
- CHAPTER XXVIII ON COMBINATION AMONGST MASTERS OR WORKMEN AGAINST EACH OTHER
- CHAPTER XXIX ON COMBINATIONS OF MASTERS AGAINST THE PUBLIC
- CHAPTER XXX ON THE EFFECT OF TAXES AND OF LOCAL RESTRICTIONS UPON MANUFACTURES
- CHAPTER XXXI ON THE EXPORTATION OF MACHINERY
- CHAPTER XXXII ON THE FUTURE PROSPECTS OF MANUFACTURES, AS CONNECTED WITH SCIENCE
CHAPTER VIII - REGISTERING OPERATIONS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION: STATEMENT OF THE OBJECT AND PLAN OF THE WORK
- CHAPTER I SOURCES OF THE ADVANTAGES ARISING FROM MACHINERY AND MANUFACTURES
- CHAPTER II ACCUMULATING POWER
- CHAPTER III REGULATING POWER
- CHAPTER IV INCREASE AND DIMINUTION OF VELOCITY
- CHAPTER V EXTENDING TIME OF ACTION OF FORCES
- CHAPTER VI SAVING TIME IN NATURAL OPERATIONS
- CHAPTER VII EXERTING FORCES TOO GREAT FOR HUMAN POWER, AND EXECUTING OPERATIONS TOO DELICATE FOR HUMAN TOUCH
- CHAPTER VIII REGISTERING OPERATIONS
- CHAPTER IX ECONOMY OF MATERIALS EMPLOYED
- CHAPTER X OF THE IDENTITY OF THE WORK WHEN IT IS OF THE SAME KIND, AND OF ITS ACCURACY WHEN OF DIFFERENT KINDS
- CHAPTER XI OF COPYING
- CHAPTER XII ON THE METHOD OF OBSERVING MANUFACTORIES
- CHAPTER XIII ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAKING AND MANUFACTURING
- CHAPTER XIV ON THE INFLUENCE OF VERIFICATION ON PRICE
- CHAPTER XV ON THE INFLUENCE OF DURABILITY ON PRICE
- CHAPTER XVI ON PRICE, AS MEASURED BY MONEY
- CHAPTER XVII OF RAW MATERIALS
- CHAPTER XVIII OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR
- CHAPTER XIX ON THE DIVISION OF MENTAL LABOUR
- CHAPTER XX ON THE SEPARATE COST OF EACH PROCESS IN A MANUFACTURE
- CHAPTER XXI ON THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF LARGE FACTORIES
- CHAPTER XXII ON THE POSITION OF GREAT FACTORIES
- CHAPTER XXIII ON OVER-MANUFACTURING
- CHAPTER XXIV INQUIRIES PREVIOUS TO COMMENCING ANY MANUFACTORY
- CHAPTER XXV ON CONTRIVING MACHINERY
- CHAPTER XXVI PROPER CIRCUMSTANCES FOR THE APPLICATION OF MACHINERY
- CHAPTER XXVII ON THE DURATION OF MACHINERY
- CHAPTER XXVIII ON COMBINATION AMONGST MASTERS OR WORKMEN AGAINST EACH OTHER
- CHAPTER XXIX ON COMBINATIONS OF MASTERS AGAINST THE PUBLIC
- CHAPTER XXX ON THE EFFECT OF TAXES AND OF LOCAL RESTRICTIONS UPON MANUFACTURES
- CHAPTER XXXI ON THE EXPORTATION OF MACHINERY
- CHAPTER XXXII ON THE FUTURE PROSPECTS OF MANUFACTURES, AS CONNECTED WITH SCIENCE
Summary
(45.) One of the most singular advantages we derive from machinery is in the check which it affords against the inattention, the idleness, or the knavery, of human agents. Few occupations are more wearisome than counting a series of repetitions of the same fact; the number of paces we walk affords a tolerably good measure of distance passed over, but the value of this is much enhanced by possessing an instrument, the pedometer, which will count for us the number of steps we have made. A piece of mechanism of this kind is sometimes applied to count the number of turns made by the wheel of a carriage, and thus to indicate the distance travelled: an instrument similar in its object, but differing in its construction, has been used for counting the number of strokes made by a steamengine, and the number of coins struck in a press. One of the simplest instruments for counting any series of operations, was contrived by Mr. Donkin.
(46.) Another instrument for registering is used in some establishments for calendering and embossing. Many hundred thousand yards of calicoes and stuffs pass weekly through these operations, and as the price paid for the process is small, the value of the time spent in measuring them would bear a considerable proportion to the profit. A machine has, therefore, been contrived for measuring and registering the length of the goods as they pass rapidly through the hands of the operator, and all chance of erroneous counting is thus avoided.
(47.) Perhaps the most useful contrivance of this kind, is one for ascertaining the vigilance of a watchman.
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- On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures , pp. 39 - 43Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010