 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1843 - 840 sivua
...and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force...engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer ; and lift a ship... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1843 - 342 sivua
...and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, which can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, or crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it — draw out without breaking a thread as fine... | |
 | Edward Morris - 1844 - 206 sivua
...and its power so increased, as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his brilliant contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous, alike for its force...engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship... | |
 | Edward Morris - 1844 - 200 sivua
...increased, as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his brilliant contrivances, it has become a tiling stupendous, alike for its force and its flexibility,...engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship... | |
 | Edward Morris - 1844 - 206 sivua
...become a thing stupendous, alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious power whicli it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility...engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1844 - 276 sivua
...it has become a thing alike stupendous for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious power it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility,...It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metnl before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift op a ship of war... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 622 sivua
...prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk...— draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It * First published in an Edinburgh newspaper... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 sivua
...them, and share, in their places, the equal care of their Creator. The Steam Engine. The steam engine has become a thing stupendous alike for its force...— draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors,... | |
 | 1845 - 1368 sivua
...and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force...engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it — draw out without breaking a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 sivua
...— and am dust." Again. In the description of the power of the steam-engine, a late writer says : " The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or...— draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors,... | |
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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... 
