 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
 | Thomas Osmond Summers - 1856 - 200 sivua
...it has become 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 as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal and crush masses... | |
 | James David Forbes - 1856 - 218 sivua
...it is adapted by its easy regulation to replace human industry in the most delicate operations ; " the trunk of an elephant, which can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it."1 Of the applications of the steam-engine with which (325.) Mr Watt was less immediately connected,... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1857 - 292 sivua
...alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, precision, and ductility with which it can be varied,...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... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1858 - 656 sivua
...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 480 sivua
...alike for its force and its flexibility, — for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the case and precision and ductility with which it can be varied,...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... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 652 sivua
...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... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1859 - 430 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1859 - 480 sivua
...alike stupendous for its force and its flexibility; for the prodigious power it can exert, and the easa and precision and ductility with which it can be varied,...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1859 - 450 sivua
...alike for its force and its flexibility, — for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the case and precision and ductility with which it can be varied,...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 - 1861 - 488 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... | |
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