 It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of °obdurate metal before it, — 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, — cut steel into...  The Roads and Railroads, Vehicles, and Modes of Travelling, of Ancient and ... - Pàgina 237per Roads - 1839 - 340 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 440 pàgines
...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 winds and waves. and, in all the most material, they have not only widened most magnificently the field of its exertions,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1860 - 484 pàgines
...as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forgo anchors ; cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves." . Explain 76t. Fig. 109 represents Watt's double-acting eondenstig. 109. j n g gteam-engine, in which... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1861 - 488 pàgines
...; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a baublo in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors...vessels against the fury of the winds and waves." Explain 767. Fig. 109 represents Watt's double-acting condensrig. u». jng steam.eng;nej ;n which A... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1862 - 488 pàgines
...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 an oak, is as nothing...vessels against the fury of the winds and waves." Explain 767. Fig. 109 represents Watt's double-acting eondensl&' ' ing steam-engine, in which A represents... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 pàgines
...masses of obdurate metal 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...against the fury of the winds and waves. It would he difficult to estimate the value of the benefits which these inventions have conferred upon this... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1863 - 898 pàgines
...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 winds and waves." Notwithstanding the merited encomiums received by the new engine, and the comparatively admirable manner... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1863 - 874 pàgines
...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 winds and waves." Notwithstanding the merited encomiums received by the new engine, and the comparatively admirable manner... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - 1864 - 472 pàgines
...breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider, and forge anchors, cut steel into ribands, and impel...vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.'' It can do all this and more since the eulogium here quoted was pronounced; and I look forward to the time... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - 1864 - 468 pàgines
...breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider, and forge anchors, cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and ivaves? It can do all this and more since the eulogium here quoted was pro. nounced; and I look forward... | |
 | Illinois State Agricultural Society - 1865 - 1022 pàgines
...draw oat, without breaking, a thread as tine as a gossamer ; and lift up a ship of war like a bubble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors...ribands and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the waves and winds. " It is our improved steam engine that has fought all the recent battles of Europe,... | |
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