CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

STATEMENT OF THE OBJECT AND PLAN OF THE WORK.

CHAPTER I.

SOURCES OF THE ADVANTAGES ARISING FROM MACHINERYAND MANUFACTURES.

England peculiarly a Manufacturing Country, § 1. Its Manu-factures spread throughout the World, 2. Proportions ofAgricultural Population in various Countries, its gradual

Increase in England, 3.- Additions to Human Power .

Experiment on Force to move a Block of Stone, 5.-

Economy of Time. Gunpowder, 6. Diamond for cutting

Glass; its Hardness, 7.- Employment of Materials of

little Value. Goldbeaters’ Skin; horny Refuse; old Tin

Ware, 8.- Of Tools, 9. To arrange Needles, 10. To

place their Points in one Direction, 11. Substitute for Hand;Nail-making, 12. Shoe-machinery; Sash-lines, 13.- Divi-

sion of the Objects of Machinery. To produce Power; to trans-mit Force; general Principles, 14. Wind; Water, 15.Steam ; Force not created, 16. Economy of Time in variousModes of dividing Roots of a Tree, 17. Chinese Mode ofconveying Cotton compared with European, 18.