...extent the father of the whole trade. " When I first entered this city," he said of Manchester in 1816, "the whole of the machinery was executed by hand....machine-tools, with a degree of accuracy which the unaided hand oonld never accomplish. The automaton, or self-acting machine-tool, has within itself an almost creative...

...city," remarked Sir William Fairbairn in an address to the British Association at Manchester in 1861, " the whole of the machinery was executed by hand ;...the hands of the workmen. Now, everything is done by machine tools, with a degree of accuracy which the unaided hand could never accomplish." i The transition...

...Fairbairn, in his inaugural address as President of the British Association at Manchester in 1S61, ' the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There...drills, the preparatory operations of construction were entirely effected by the hands of the workmen. Now everything is done by machine tools with a degree...

...Fairbairn, in his inaugural address as President of the British Association at Manchester in 1861, ' the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There...drills, the preparatory operations of construction were entirely effected by the hands of the workmen. Now everything is done by machine tools with a degree...

...Fairbairn, in his inaugural address as President of the British Association at Manchester in 1861, ' the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There...with the exception of very imperfect lathes and a few drill's, the preparatory operations of construction were entirely effected by the hands of the workmen....

...became acquainted with mechanical engineering, about 1804, there were no selfacting tools ; everything was executed by hand. There were neither planing, slotting, nor shaping machines; and the whole stock of an engineering or machine establishment might be summed up in a few lathes, drills,...

...\\/ William Fairbairn, in an inaugural address to the British Association at Manchester in 1861 , " the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There...the hands of the workmen. Now, everything is done by machine tools, with a degree of accuracy which the unaided hand could never accomplish. The automaton,...

...address before the British Association at Manchester, "When I first entered this city [about 1813] the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There...were effected entirely by the hands of the workmen." About 1825 to 1830, however, with the growth in demand for ironworking apparatus, there began a rapid...

...\\/ William Fairbairn, in an inaugural address to the British Association at Manchester in 1861, " the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There...the hands of the workmen. Now, everything is done by machine tools, with a degree of accuracy which the unaided hand could never accomplish. The automaton,...

...was considerably accelerated.* Sir William Fairbairn stated that when he came to Manchester in 1814 " with the exception of very imperfect lathes and a few drills the whole of the machinery was executed by hand." Clement's planing machine (1825), his lathes (1827 and...