Use of Machinery
English machine tool manufacturer Joseph Whitworth was appointed as a British commissioner for the New-York International Exhibition. Accompanied by another British commissioner, he traveled around the several states visiting various manufacturers, and as a result published a highly influential report on American manufacturing, from which he is quoted:
"The laboring classes are comparatively few in number, but this is counterbalanced by, and indeed, may be one of the causes of the eagerness by which they call in the use of machinery in almost every department of industry. Wherever it can be applied as a substitute for manual labor, it is universally and willingly resorted to ….It is this condition of the labor market, and this eager resort to machinery wherever it can be applied, to which, under the guidance of superior education and intelligence, the remarkable prosperity of the United States is due." Joseph Whitworth, 1854
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