 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 - Page 2221819Full view - About this book
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...sphere. Nor is the flexibility of steam less wonderful than its force, for it has been well compared to the trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak with equal facility. The power of steam has by many been supposed to be one of the wonderful discoveries... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1820 - 566 pages
...it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious powers which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they they can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend... | |
 | 1820 - 618 pages
...it has become a thin; siupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious powers which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they they can be varied, distributed. and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend... | |
 | edmund rouledge - 1883 - 706 pages
...inventor's death, "a thing stupendous alike ; 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 which can pick ' up a pin or rend... | |
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