On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Concepts

The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution

by Charles R. Morris · 1 Jan 2012 · 456pp · 123,534 words

.”37 Babbage was undoubtedly at the extreme end of other-worldliness, but he had a large and responsive audience. A book he published in 1833, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacturing,38 has an arid, academic tone; the first third is an exhaustive classification of machines as those for “Accumulating Power,” “Regulating Power,” “Extending the Time

The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

by Carl Benedikt Frey · 17 Jun 2019 · 626pp · 167,836 words

than they answered. Yet they prompted defenders of mechanization—including Charles Babbage, Andrew Ure, and Edward Baines—to make a case for it. Babbage’s On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures presents machines as a helpful complement to the worker’s labor, suggesting that “various operations occur in the arts in which an assistance of an

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. P. Gaskell, 1833, The Manufacturing Population of England, 12 and 341. 29. Marx, [1867] 1999, Das Kapital , chapter 15, section 5. 30. C. Babbage, 1832, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (London: Charles Knight), 266–67. 31. A. Ure, 1835, The Philosophy of Manufactures (London: Charles Knight), 220. 32. E. Baines, 1835, History of the Cotton

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R. J. Murnane. 2003. “The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 118 (4): 1279–333. Babbage, C. 1832. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. London: Charles Knight. Bacci, M. L. 2017. A Concise History of World Population. Oxford: John Wiley and Sons. Baines, E. 1835. History of the Cotton

Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World

by Joshua B. Freeman · 27 Feb 2018 · 538pp · 145,243 words

? Charles Babbage, the great English mathematician and inventor, devoted a whole chapter “On the Causes and Consequences of Large Factories” in his influential 1832 book, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacturers. Babbage began with the obvious, that the introduction of machinery tended to lead to greater production volume, resulting in “the establishment of large factories.” A

The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance

by Henry Petroski · 2 Jan 1990 · 490pp · 150,172 words

. Austen, Jane. Emma. Edited with an introduction by David Lodge. London, 1971. Automatic Pencil Sharpener Company. “From Kindergarten Thru College.” [Folder.] Chicago, [1941]. Babbage, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. 4th edition enlarged (1835). New York, 1963. Back, Robert. “The Manufacture of Leads for the Mechanical Pencil,” American Ceramic Society Bulletin, 4 (November 1925): Baker

Hacking Capitalism

by Söderberg, Johan; Söderberg, Johan;

employed to calculate mathematical tables. In addition to figuring out the principles of computing, Charles Babbage was also a pioneer in writing management literature. In On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, published in 1832, he advised factory owners how to break up the labour process into simple tasks that could be operated by workers with the

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Aesthetic Education of Man—In a Series of Letters/Friedrich Schiller (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1982), 9; hereafter cited in text as Letters. 9. Charles Babbage, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (New York: Augustus M Kelley Publishers, 1971), 54. 10. Jason Scott, BBS the Documentary (2004). 11. Andrew Sullivan, “Counter Culture: Dot-communist Manifesto”, New York

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Reader (New York: Continuum, 1998). Axelos, Kostas. Alienation, Praxis, and Techné in the Thought of Karl Marx, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976. Babbage, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, New York: Augustus M Kelley Publishers, 1971. Baden, John, and Douglas Noonan. Managing the Commons, London: Indiana University Press, 1998. ed. Balakrishnan, Gopal. Debating Empire

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

by Brian Merchant · 25 Sep 2023 · 524pp · 154,652 words

twist, Lord Byron’s estranged daughter, Ada Lovelace, would write history’s first software programs by expanding on Babbage’s work.) In 1832, Babbage published On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, which argued that factories and machinery were the great drivers of prosperity. It helped launch a trend of books known as factory guides, tomes intended

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Poetry in the Enlightenment: The Making of a Canon, 1730–1820. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. Axon, William Edward Armytage. Lancashire Gleanings. London, 1883. Babbage, Charles. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. London: Charles Knight, 1832. Bailey, Brian. The Luddite Rebellion. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Ball, Charles. Slavery in the United States: A Narrative

Rummage: A History of the Things We Have Reused, Recycled and Refused To Let Go

by Emily Cockayne · 15 Aug 2020

), p. 485. 15. Board of Agriculture, On the Subject of Manures (London, 1795); Frederick Falkner, The Muck Manual (London, 1843), p. 106. 16. Charles Babbage, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufacture, 4th edn (London, 1846), p. 218. 17. ‘Agricultural Chemistry’, Chester Chronicle, 28 January 1814, p. 4; Falkner, Muck Manual, p. 95. 18. ‘At the Durham

Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion

by Gareth Stedman Jones · 24 Aug 2016 · 964pp · 296,182 words

, 1973) PRIMARY SOURCES Annenkov, Pavel V., The Extraordinary Decade: Literary Memoirs, ed. Arthur P. Mendel, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1968 [1881] Babbage, Charles, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, London, Charles Knight, 1832 Bachofen, Johann Jakob, Das Mutterrecht, Stuttgart, Krais and Hoffman, 1861 Bakunin, Michael, Statism and Anarchy¸ trans. and ed. Marshall S. Shatz

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of Manufactures: or, An Exposition of the Scientific, Moral and Commercial Economy of the Factory System of Great Britain, London, Charles Knight, 1835; Charles Babbage, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, London, Charles Knight, 1832. 17. Marx, Economic Manuscripts of 1857–58, p. 131. 18. Ibid., p. 133. 19. Ibid., p. 134 (capitals in original text

Darwin Among the Machines

by George Dyson · 28 Mar 2012 · 463pp · 118,936 words

Series for the History of Computing, vol. 2 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1982). 25.Babbage, Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, 97. 26.Ibid., vii. 27.Charles Babbage, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, 4th ed., enlarged (London: Charles Knight, 1835), 273–276. 28.Babbage, Passages, 128. 29.George Boole, An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, on which

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

by James Gleick · 1 Mar 2011 · 855pp · 178,507 words

Babbage, edited by Martin Campbell-Kelly, was published in 1989. Online, the full texts of Babbage’s Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1832), and The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise (1838) can now be found in editions scanned from libraries by Google’s book program. Not yet available there

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Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers (1992 and 1998); where possible I try to cite the published versions. ♦ “LIGHT ALMOST SOLAR HAS BEEN EXTRACTED”: Charles Babbage, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (1832), 300; reprinted in Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage, ed. Anthony Hyman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 200. ♦ THE TIMES OBITUARIST: “The

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a Philosopher (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864), 37. ♦ “ ‘THE TALL GENTLEMAN IN THE CORNER’ ”: Ibid., 385–86. ♦ “THOSE WHO ENJOY LEISURE”: Charles Babbage, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, 4th ed. (London: Charles Knight, 1835), v. ♦ HE COMPUTED THE COST OF EACH PHASE: Ibid., 146. ♦ “AT THE EXPENSE OF THE NATION”: Henry Prevost Babbage

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Some of Its Causes. London: B. Fellowes, 1830. ———. Table of the Logarithms of the Natural Numbers, From 1 to 108,000. London: B. Fellowes, 1831. ———. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures. 4th ed. London: Charles Knight, 1835. ———. The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. A Fragment. 2nd ed. London: John Murray, 1838. ———. Passages from the Life of a Philosopher