 | Nikolaus Pevsner - 1908 - 296 страници
...specialities . . . but the knowledge acquired becomes at once the property of the community at large. The products of all quarters of the globe are placed...disposal, and we have only to choose which is the best and the cheapest for our purposes, and the powers of production are intrusted to the stimulus of competition... | |
 | Delphian Society, Chicago - 1913 - 614 страници
...was wrapt in secrecy, it results from the publicity of the present day, that no sooner is a discovery or invention made, than it is already improved upon and surpassed by competing effort. . . . The exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true text and a living picture of the point of... | |
 | 1914 - 136 страници
...discovery was wrapt in secrecy, the publicity of the present day causes that no sooner is a discovery or invention made than it is already improved upon...disposal, and we have only to choose which is the best and the cheapest for our purposes, and the powers of production are intrusted to the stimulus of competition... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1916 - 354 страници
...discovery was wrapped in secrecy, the publicity of the present day causes that no sooner is a discovery or invention made than it is already improved upon...disposal, and we have only to choose which is the best and the cheapest for our purposes, and the powers of production are intrusted to the stimulus of competition... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1916 - 354 страници
...discovery was wrapped in secrecy, the publicity of the present day causes that no sooner is a discovery or invention made than it is already improved upon and surpassed by comno™aSd" peting efforts. The products of all quarters of the globe are placed at our disposal,... | |
 | Rosemary J. Mundhenk, LuAnn McCracken Fletcher - 1999 - 502 страници
...discovery was wrapped in secrecy, the publicity of the present day causes that no sooner is a discovery or invention made than it is already improved upon...disposal, and we have only to choose which is the best and the cheapest for our purposes, and the powers of production are entrusted to the stimulus of competition... | |
 | Jeffrey A. Auerbach - 1999 - 300 страници
...nations and parts of the globe are rapidly vanishing before the achievements of modern invention. . . . The products of all quarters of the globe are placed...disposal, and we have only to choose which is the best and the cheapest for our purposes, and the powers of production are intrusted to the stimulus of competition... | |
 | Thad Logan - 2001 - 310 страници
...imperialist, relation to the foreign. In his speech opening the Great Exhibition, Prince Albert announced that "the products of all quarters of the globe are placed...only to choose which is the best and cheapest for our purposes."183 His sense of the world as completely open to British consumers actually inverts the economic... | |
 | Edward Ziter - 2003 - 260 страници
...posited a world of impossibly endless availability. As Prince Albert said at the opening ceremony, "the products of all quarters of the globe are placed...only to choose which is the best and cheapest for our purposes."56 In this fantasy world of availability, one need only select from a throng that simply... | |
 | Nezar AlSayyad - 2004 - 282 страници
...Works of lndustry of All Nations'. Pnnce Albert introduced it to the Bntish public as a setting where 'the products of all quarters of the globe are placed at our disposal'." lt was one of many world exhibitions where a newly carved-up globe was displayed through the techniques... | |
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... the products of all quarters of the globe are placed at our disposal, and we have only to choose which is the best and cheapest for our purposes, and the powers of production are intrusted to the stimulus of competition and capital. 
