 When the human hand or the human head has been for some time occupied in any kind of work, it cannot instantly change its employment with full effect The muscles of the limbs employed have acquired a flexibility during their exertion, and those to be...  On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures - Page 131by Charles Babbage - 1832 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Railroad engineering - 1834 - 434 pages
...labor is, that time is always lost from changing from one occupation to auoth.T. When the human tiand, or the human head, has been for some time occupied...be put in action, a stiffness during rest — which render« every change slow and unequal in the commencement. A similar result seems to take place in... | |
 | Commerce - 1849 - 710 pages
...one operation to another is as obvious in mental processes as in those which are purely mechanical. " When the human hand or the human head has been for...flexibility during their exertion, and those to be put into action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in me commencement... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1849 - 712 pages
...one operation to another is as obvious in mental processes as in those which are purely mechanical. " When the human hand or the human head has been for...flexibility during their exertion, and those to be put into action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in the commencement.... | |
 | Commerce - 1849 - 716 pages
...operation to another is as obvious in mental processes as in those which are purely mechanical. '• \Vhen the human hand or the human head has been for some...flexibility during their exertion, and those to be put into action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in the commencement... | |
 | Erasmus Peshine Smith - Business & Economics - 1853 - 284 pages
...to it, and for some time he rather trifles than applies to good purpose." Mr. Babbage remarks, that "when. the human hand or the human head has been for...acquired a flexibility during their exertion, and those not in action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in the commencement.... | |
 | James William Gilbart - Banks and banking - 1856 - 388 pages
...one operation to another is as obvious in mental processes as in those which are purely mechanical. " When the human hand or the human head has been for...flexibility during their exertion, and those to be put into action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in the commencement.... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Business & Economics - 1856 - 590 pages
...hand from one employment to another." " When the human hand, or the human head," adds Mr. Babbage, " has been for some time occupied in any kind of work,...acquired a flexibility during their exertion, and those not in action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in the commencement.... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1859 - 576 pages
...hand from one employment to another." /" When the human hand, or the human head," adds Mr. Babbage, " has been for some time occupied in any kind of work,...acquired a flexibility during their exertion, and those not in action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in the commencement.... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1859 - 586 pages
...hand from one employment to another." " When the human hand, or the human head," adds Mr. Babbage, " has been for some time occupied in any kind of work,...limbs employed have acquired a flexibility during then- exertion, and those not in action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - Business - 1865 - 462 pages
...this connection, that when the hand or the head has been for some time occupied in any kind of special work, it cannot instantly change its employment with...flexibility during their exertion — and those to be put into action a stiffening daring rest — which renders ervery change slow and unequal in the commencement.... | |
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