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Knight's Cyclopaedia of the Indistry of all Nations [Hardcover]
2022About The Book : The great Industrial Exhibition of 1851 — great in every sense of the word, if worthily carried out, — will be a kind of summing up of the labours of half a century. It will be a practical test, whereby we may know how much, and of what kind, the first half of the nineteenth century has been able to achieve in the application of skilled labour. Before the present century, efforts were too scattered to be susceptible of easy comparison ; and the great moving forces of industry, (so to speak) were yet in their infancy. In applying this designation to the steam engine and the fectroy system^ we do that for which there is much warranty : each of these is a mighty agent both for combination and for subdivision; for applying to all work to be done, just so much force as will meet the requirements of the case ; for economising space and time, capital and labour, materials and tools ; for rendering invention and supervision doubly effective ; and for developing an amount of precision and accuracy which never before marked industrial processes. About The Author : Charles Knight (1791 –1873) was an English publisher, editor and author. He published and contributed to works such as The Penny Magazine, The Penny Cyclopaedia, and The English Cyclopaedia, and established the Local Government Chronicle.In addition to being the editor and author of Penny Magazine and Penny Cyclopedia, and other popular works, Knight wrote The Results of Machinery (1831) and Knowledge is Power, which was published in 1855. A Popular History of England over eight volumes appeared in 1856. In 1864 he withdrew from the business of publishing, but he continued to write nearly to the close of his long life, authoring The Shadows of the Old Booksellers (1865), an autobiography under the title Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century (2 vols., 1864–1865), and an historical novel, Begg'd at Court (1867).In 1827 Knight was forced to give up publishing, and became the superintendent of the publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, for which he projected and edited The British Almanack and Companion, begun in 1828. In 1829 he resumed business on his own account with the publication of The Library of Entertaining Knowledge, writing several volumes of the series himself. In 1832 and 1833 he started The Penny Magazine (1832-1845) and The Penny Cyclopaedia. The Title 'Knight's Cyclopaedia of the Indistry of all Nations written/authored/edited by Charles Knight', published in the year 2022. The ISBN 9788121267526 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 1009 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Encyclopaedia. Size of the book is 22.59 x 28.94 cms Vol:-
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