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
| 1871 - 404 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... | |
| 1874 - 614 sivua
...for the prodigious powers which it can exert, and the ease, precision, and ductility with which they can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, which can pick up a piu and rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal and crush masses of obdurate metal, like... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 860 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... | |
| Young people - 1877 - 696 sivua
...so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility,...dis-tributed, 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... | |
| John Cleaves Henderson - 1877 - 154 sivua
...[the steamengine] "has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and flexibility, the prodigous power it can exert, and the ease and precision and...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 grave a seal, and crush masses of... | |
| Francis Wayland - 1878 - 432 sivua
...alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious power which it can exort ; and the ease, precision, and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an ele- phant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1887 - 434 sivua
..."By his admirable contrivances the steam engine has become a thing stupendous alike for its force aud its flexibility, for the prodigious power it can exert,...distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak is as nothing to it. O It can draw out without breaking a thread... | |
| Manfred Powis Bale - 1880 - 132 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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 sivua
...Its flexibility— for the prodiit oils power which it can ex. ri. and the ease, aud precision, ami ductility with which it can be varied, distributed and applied. The trunk of au elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It cun engrave a seal aud... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 sivua
...its force and its flexibility, — for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, anil 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... | |
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