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Klappentext A landmark analysis of manufacturing practices! first published in 1832! that promoted mechanisation and efficient 'division of labour'. Zusammenfassung In this eminently readable historical account! Charles Babbage surveys manufacturing practices including printing and publishing! and discusses the political! moral and economic factors affecting them. His scientific analysis and promotion of mechanisation and efficient 'division of labour' still resonate strongly for modern industrial engineering and manufacturing industries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. Sources of the advantages arriving from machinery and manufactures; 2. Accumulating power; 3. Regulating power; 4. Increase and diminution of velocity; 5. Extending time of action of forces; 6. Saving time in natural operations; 7. Exerting forces too great for human power; 8. Registering operations; 9. Economy of materials employed; 10. Of the identity of the work when it is of the same kind; 11. Of copying; 12. On the method of observing manufactories; 13. On the difference between making and manufacturing; 14. On the influence of verification upon price; 15. On the influence of durability on price; 16. On price, as measured by money; 17. Of raw materials; 18. Of the division of labour; 19. On the division of mental labour; 20. On the separate cost of each process in a manufacture; 21. On the causes and consequences of large factories; 22. On the position of great factories; 23. On over-manufacturing; 24. Inquiries previous to commencing any manufactory; 25. On contriving machinery; 26. Proper circumstances for the application of machinery; 27. On the duration of machinery; 28. On combination amongst masters or workmen against each other; 29. On combinations of masters against the public; 30. On the effect of taxes; 31. On the exportation of machinery; 32. On the future prospects of manufactures, as connected with science.
