 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...  A Descriptive History of the Steam Engine - Page 188de Robert Stuart - 1824 - 228 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1825 - 458 pages
...has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility,— fur the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and 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... | |
 | 1819 - 708 pages
...it has become a thing ttupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and...and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick op a pin or rend an oak is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crash masses of obdurate metal... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, — for the prodigious powei which it can exert, and the ease, and 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... | |
 | 1820 - 612 pages
...for it's force, and it's ttrxibility ; for the prodigious powers which it can exert, and the care, and precision, and ductility with which they can be...and applied. 'The trunk of an Elephant that can pick Dp a pin, or rend an o<ik is nothing tu it.' 11 can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal... | |
 | 1822 - 184 pages
...flexibility, — for the prodigious power which it can uxert, and the ease, and precision, with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin, or tend an oak, is us nothing to it It can engrave the hide of a thin drinking glass, aiid crush masses... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...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 trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend... | |
 | 1824 - 492 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1824 - 492 pages
...ha* 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 trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - 1826 - 202 pages
...flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, precision, and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk...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 reotals before it ; draw out,... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 380 pages
...alike for its force, and its flexibility : for the prodigious powers which it can exert, and the ease, precision, and ductility, with which they can be varied,...and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick np a pin, or rend an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metals... | |
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