 | Frederick Rowton - 1850 - 334 pages
...remarks of an equally great modern writer* in favour of the Steam Engine. " It has become," he says, "a thing stupendous, " alike for its force and its...nothing to it. It can engrave " a seal, and crush obdurate masses of metal " before it ; draw out, without breaking, a thread " as fine as a gossamer,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1850 - 408 pages
...steam, in order to keep the cylinder from being cooled by the external air. D is the digious power it can exert, and the ease and precision and ductility...it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of wai like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...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...— 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...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...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 anchors... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 pages
...— 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...— draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and I iff up a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 pages
...— 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...— draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors,... | |
 | Success - 1851 - 362 pages
...accounted miracles and impossibilities. ' The trunk of an elephant, it has been finely and truly said, that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 620 pages
...precision and ductility with wnil'h it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an eleHiirmt, that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing...; 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... | |
 | George Grant (author of Panorama of science.) - 1852 - 268 pages
...accounted miraculous and impossible. " The trunk of an elephant," it has been finely and truly said, " that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, " is as nothing...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... | |
 | Harry Howells Horton - 1853 - 310 pages
...his notiee of the death of 'Watt, 1819, thus expresses himself in reference to the steam-engine : — "We have said that Mr. Watt was the great improver...— 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,... | |
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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... 
