Investigation Of Concentration Of Economic Power Vol 7 Hearings Before The Temporary National Economic Committee Congress Of The United States Se

Author : United States Congress
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396361883
Total Pages : 862 pages
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Download or read book Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power, Vol. 30 written by United States Congress and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power, Vol. 30: Hearings Before the Temporary National Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Seventy-Fifth Congress; Technology and Concentration of Economic Power In England, in the early l7oo's, planks were made by men's ripping 10 s with a long hand saw. It was ver hard work and made man 01 at 40, giving them what was called 'carpenter's heart. Most of them were dead at 50. One day an ingenious Englishman decided to hitch a water-wheel to a saw, and that became the first engine. The introduction of the spinning jenny and looms in England In 1764 actually started a great increase in employment in the textile industry, though it was thought at first that nearly everyone would be thrown out of employment in the whole industry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.