Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Okay - So I got the country wrong, actions and causes right....two out of three ain't bad - especially with manual focus and no motor drive! ;-) At 10:25 AM 5/4/99 -0700, you wrote: > >Luddites > > >name given to bands of workingmen in the industrial centers of England who >rioted between 1811 and 1816. The uprisings began in Nottinghamshire, where >groups of textile workers, in the name of a mythical figure called Ned Ludd, >or King Ludd, destroyed knitting machines, to which they attributed the >prevailing unemployment and low wages. In 1812 workers in Lancashire, >Cheshire, and the West Riding of Yorkshire began to wreck cotton power looms >and wool shearing machines. There was no political aim involved and no >cohesion in the movement. Outbreaks of Luddism were very harshly suppressed >by the government. > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- > >The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition Copyright ©1993 >