 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...before it — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge...impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It would be difficult to estimate the value of the benefits which these inventions have conferred... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...before it — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine »s gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge...impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It would be difficult to estimate the value of the benefits which these inventions have conferred... | |
 | Success - 1851 - 362 pages
...before it,—draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer,—and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors; cut steel into ribbands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.' Another application of... | |
 | A. E. Pearce - 1851 - 116 pages
...gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air,—embroider muslin, and forge anchors,—cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves;"—this prodigious power has contributed incalculably to lighten human labour, and to achieve... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It ean embroider muslin and forge anehors — eut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It would be diffieult to estimate the value of the benefits whieh these inventions have eonferred... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 620 pages
...; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of wai like a banble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors...ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the wiuds and waves." eduction-pipe, communicating between the cylinder and the condenser. E is the condenser,... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 pages
...breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like 54 THE MECHANICAL POWEBS. [SECT. II. a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge...impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It would be difficult to estimate the value of the benefits which these inventions have conferred... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...before it- — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a shipof-war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge...impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It would bo difficult to estimate the value of the benefits which these inventions have conferred... | |
 | Harry Howells Horton - 1853 - 304 pages
...before it— draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the wind and waves. "It would be difficult to... | |
 | Harry Howells Horton - 1853 - 310 pages
...before it — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the wind and waves. "It would be difficult to... | |
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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 like wax, before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like... 
