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Restructure entity storage from per-chapter subdirectories to a flat
canonical set in output/entities/. Each entity exists as a single file;
duplicates across chapters are detected by slug collision and skipped
(first occurrence wins). Chapter views use {{ include }} transclusion
to reference shared entity files.
Add @{existing_entities} macro to extract-entities template so the LLM
knows which entities already exist and focuses on genuinely new ones.
Refactor _call_llm() from _execute_llm() for callers that handle their
own file I/O. 41 unique entities from 4 chapters (2 duplicates removed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Invention of Machinery
Definition
The development of machines that facilitate and abridge labour, enabling one person to do the work of many. Smith identifies this as the third mechanism by which the division of labour increases productive power, and argues that the division of labour itself stimulates invention, because workers focused on a single operation naturally discover improvements to their specific task.
Source Chapter
Book I, Chapter 1: "Of the Division of Labour"
Context
Presented as the third mechanism. Smith provides the anecdote of the boy who automated the valve on a fire engine to free himself for play. He extends the argument beyond workers to include machine-makers and philosophers (men of speculation), whose own specialised observation enables them to combine knowledge from distant fields.
Economic Domain
Production
Smith's Original Wording
"Thirdly, and lastly, everybody must be sensible how much labour is facilitated and abridged by the application of proper machinery. It is unnecessary to give any example."