 | 1823 - 946 pages
...described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures,...the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend... | |
 | 1842 - 634 pages
...described as its inventor ; for it was by him, that its action was so regulated, as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures...increased, as to set weight and solidity at defiance. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a... | |
 | 1819 - 490 pages
...capable 'of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufacures, and its power so increased as o set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable...become a thing stupendous alike for its force and Ilex bility; for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease and precision and ductility... | |
 | 1825 - 458 pages
...inventor. It was by bis inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being dpplied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and...weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivance*, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility,— fur the... | |
 | 1819 - 780 pages
...described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures,...its flexibility ; for the prodigious power which it cau exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they can be varied, distributed,... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures,...as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his ad* This notice of the character of Mr Watt appeared first in the Scotsman newspaper. It follows so... | |
 | 1819 - 708 pages
...of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and ils power so increased as to let weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing ttupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious power which it can exert, and... | |
 | 1820 - 450 pages
...described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures,...the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend... | |
 | 1820 - 494 pages
...described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures,...its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious powers which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they can be varied,... | |
 | 1820 - 494 pages
...described as its iiiventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures,...its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious powers which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they can be varied,... | |
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We have said that Mr Watt was the great improver of the steam-engine ; but, in truth, as to all that is admirable in its structure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions... 
