On 06/07/2011 03:43 PM, Invisible wrote:
> Ooo, look:
>
> http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/contents.html

Heheheh. Victorian English. Dear me, this stuff is amusing.

"Such works could not be carried on without great expenditure. The 
fluctuations in the demand and supply of skilled labour were 
considerable. The railroad mania withdrew from other pursuits the most 
intellectual and skilful draftsmen. One who had for some years been my 
chief assistant was tempted by an offer so advantageous that in justice 
to his own family he could scarcely have declined it."

Damn. I could have just written "this required skilled labour, which the 
railroads soaked up". Heh.

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