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time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anaesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won
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people as being rabidly and unthinkingly anti-technology. But in fact the Luddites of Nottingham, and Lancashire, and Yorkshire—the textile workers who attacked the “power loom” in 1811 and beyond—were socialist revolutionaries, a group of workers who fought against crippling pay cuts, child labor, and changes to laws that had
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capitalism.Today, knowledge, not things, rule. That's a fashionable point of view that assumes our ancestors were dolts, as if the wheel and the power loom weren't productive embodiments of knowledge. Things get interesting when Lev gets specific. He thinks financial statements should recognize four kinds of New Era assets
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of industry thus comprise Industrialism 1.0, with its heavy, centralized engines--that is, dams, water supply and waste water treatment, many conveyer belt systems, power looms, printing presses, and so on, down to most consumer technology. In short, these can all be stopped by throwing a switch, but their stoppage will
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scientists, physicists, economists, and even inventors. In addition to the previous two giants, I randomly list contributions by country clergymen: Rev. Edmund Cartwright invented the power loom, contributing to the Industrial Revolution; Rev. Jack Russell bred the terrier; Rev. William Buckland was the first authority on dinosaurs; Rev. William Greenwell invented modern
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China from the late 1870s onward. In 1902, Mitsui started a fashion for building cotton plants in China. Ten years later, the Japanese owned 886 power looms in China, even more than the British.13 The Japanese also tiptoed into the United States. As early as 1881, fourteen Japanese trading companies had
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wealth through the rum and slave trades of the eighteenth century invested in new industrial textile manufacturing equipment and infrastructure: water-powered yarn-spinning machines, power looms, and mill facilities. These well-capitalized New England mills produced cotton textiles, the demand for which was virtually inexhaustible. Consequently, the number and size of
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