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... Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c - Seite 2221819Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 Seiten
...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 that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 Seiten
...— 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 rend an oak, is as nothing to it It can engrave a seal and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out,... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 Seiten
...— 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 rend an oak, is as nothing to it It can engrave a seal and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out,... | |
| Francis Wayland - 1852 - 446 Seiten
...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 pi/1 or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal... | |
| William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 Seiten
...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 that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin... | |
| Harry Howells Horton - 1853 - 304 Seiten
...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 trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin, or rend... | |
| Harry Howells Horton - 1853 - 310 Seiten
...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 trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin, or rend... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 Seiten
...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 that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that ean pick up a pin... | |
| John Menzies (of Edinburgh.) - 1853 - 136 Seiten
...of the magnificent steam-engine race of the present day, which, according to Lord Jefi'rey, excels " the trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak," for " it can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it — draw out, without... | |
| Thomas Osmond Summers - 1856 - 200 Seiten
...By his admirable contrivances, 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 with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin, or rend... | |
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