It is in a cotton mill, however, that the perfection of automatic industry is to be seen ; it is there that the elemental powers have been made to animate millions of complex organs, infusing into forms of wood, iron, and brass an intelligent agency.


p. 2 - The Philosophy of Manufactures, 1835


It is in a cotton mill, however, that the perfection of automatic industry is to be seen ; it is there that the elemental powers have been made to...

It is in a cotton mill, however, that the perfection of automatic industry is to be seen ; it is there that the elemental powers have been made to...

It is in a cotton mill, however, that the perfection of automatic industry is to be seen ; it is there that the elemental powers have been made to...

It is in a cotton mill, however, that the perfection of automatic industry is to be seen ; it is there that the elemental powers have been made to...