Sentence examples for manufactory from inspiring English sources

He is a clever fellow, too, as the following anecdote will prove:—"The Emperor wished to illuminate the Alexander column in a grand style, the size of the round lamps was indicated, and the glasses bespoken at the St Petersburg manufactory, where the workmen exerted themselves in vain, and almost blew the breath out of their bodies in the endeavour to obtain the desired magnitude.

Berlin ware, faience and porcelain pottery made in Berlin after 1678, when the first faience manufactory there was founded by Pieter van der Lee.

Of his four children, three survived, including Eli Whitney, Jr., who continued his father's arms manufactory in Hamden, Connecticut.

In this respect Matthew Boulton was the great pioneer: his Soho manufactory near Birmingham, which dominated the British "toy" industry from the 1770s, produced high-quality steel buckles, buttons, coins, sterling silver, and Sheffield plate, establishing standards of design and of factory management and welfare services that rivalled those of the 20th century.

The Watertown Arsenal (established in 1816) was a major manufactory of heavy ordnance until it was closed in the late 1960s.

After managing his father's hardware business, in 1762 Boulton built the Soho manufactory near Birmingham.

A museum of porcelain is located at the manufactory.

And there is no way to pick up power plants, highways, and manufactories and move them to emerging markets, nor any way to operate them without complementary infrastructure if we did.

Even in 1820, as the industrial revolution in Britain was gathering pace, the two Asian giants still accounted for half the world's GDP.The spread of purpose-built manufactories like Quarry Bank Mill separated economic power and population, increasingly so as the West got richer.

There is also reason to believe that the Persian Shāh ʿAbbās during the 17th century established manufactories in the Shirvan and Karabagh districts whose products included carpets, and a surviving group of large 17th- and 18th-century carpets may well be from this enterprise.

In textiles, entrepreneurs such as the Swiss Protestant Guillaume-Philippe Oberkampf created new manufactories that permitted better regulation and control of production.