Charles Babbage Quotes About Labour

Quotes about: Labour

• At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.

  Charles Babbage

  Tools, Increase, Wells

  Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8

• No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.

  Charles Babbage

  Degrees, Lasts, Measurement

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.119, Cambridge University Press

• The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.

  Charles Babbage

  Half, Four, Wheels

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.38

• Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.

  Charles Babbage

  Important, Principles, Division

  1832 On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures.

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