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All the improvements in machinery, however, have by no means been the inventions of those who had occasion to use the machines. Many improvements have been made by the ingenuity of the makers of the machines, when to make them became the business of a peculiar trade; and some by that of those who are called philosophers, or men of speculation, whos
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Thirdly, and lastly, everybody must be sensible how much labour is facilitated and abridged by the application of proper machinery.
Adam Smith • An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
In every other art and manufacture, the effects of the division of labour are similar to what they are in this very trifling one, though, in many of them, the labour can neither be so much subdivided, nor reduced to so great a simplicity of operation. The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a propor
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