 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
 | 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... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - 1856 - 450 Seiten
...of the steam-engine, says that — "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 with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - 1856 - 374 Seiten
...of the steam-engine, says that — "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 with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend... | |
 | 1856 - 422 Seiten
...delicate manufactures; while its power may be so increased as to se weight and solidity at defiance. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. I can engrave a seal, or crush a mass of iron. It can draw out a filament, without... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 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 - 1856 - 502 Seiten
...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 with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin, or rend... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1857 - 292 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...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 itj draw out, without... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 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 - 1857 - 464 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,... | |
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