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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ...had suffered so much anxiety and trouble by the law suits on his patent for the steam engine, that nothing would induce him ever to take another patent; he never made any profit by the machine for sculpture. Do you conceive that he had brought it to perfection, or that he was only making experiments?-I know he had obtained a certain degree of perfection, for it carved good work in ivory and alabaster, and he was striving at more to make it carve marble, and hard materials; he shewed me some first trials in stone, but they were not perfect, and he did not live to complete a large machine adequate for executing real sculptures in marble. Mr. Chantry executed Mr. Watt's bust, whilst he was engaged in this invention, and could probably give some information concerning it. Do any evils arise in factories from the workmen being entrusted with secrets which it is in their power to divulge to the injury of their masters?--Yes, the evils are excessive, in the insubordination that they induce; for such workmen cannot be kept in any control, because emissaries from rival manufacturers are always on the watch to seduce them, and they have at all times the means (even if they are under bond to continue to work for the masters) of communicating the secret to rival manufacturers, and thus spite their masters, as well as get bribes for themselves. They may safely reveal the secret at second hand, and there is no remedy whatever, because the communication from them to an intermediate agent, and then from that agent to the rival manufacturer, admits of no proof. Are workmen occasionally under bond?--In many factories where new processes are practised, workmen are under bond to work for a master, under fixed conditions, during a certain term; they are considered as grown appr...
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