 By his admirable contrivance, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The...  Routledge's every boy's annual - Sivu 255tekijä(t) edmund rouledge - 1883Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Frederick Rowton - 1850 - 304 sivua
...says, "a thing stupendous, " alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the " prodigious power which it can exert, and the " ease, and precision, and ductility...distributed, and applied. The " trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin, or " rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave " a seal, and crush obdurate... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1852
...stupendous, alike for its force and flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, precision, and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. 2. Independently of his great attainments in mechanies, Mr. Watt was an extraordinary, and, in many... | |
 | Harry Howells Horton - 1853
...has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility,...distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses... | |
 | Harry Howells Horton - 1853 - 290 sivua
...has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility,...distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses... | |
 | 1855
...stupendous alike for its force and flexibility — for the prodigious power which it can exercise, and the ease, and precision, and ductility with which...be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of the elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, or crush... | |
 | 1855
...force and flexibility — for the prodigious power which it can exercise, and the ease, and precisian, and ductility with which it can be .varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of the elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend aa oak, is nothing to it It can engrave a tt»l, or crush... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1856 - 470 sivua
...that, " by his admirable contrivances, and those of Mr. Fulton, it has become a thing alike stupendous for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious...distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses... | |
 | RICHARD GREEN PARKER A.M. - 1856
...that, " by his admirable contrivances, and those of Mr. Fulton, it has become a thing alike stupendous for its force and its flexibility; for the prodigious...distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - 1856
...— "It is a thing stupendous alike for its force and flexibility ; for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility...distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - 1856 - 376 sivua
...— "It is a thing stupendous alike for its force and flexibility ; for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility...distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of... | |
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