 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 a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors, — cut steel into...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Sayfa 4631819Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | A. E. Pearce - 1851 - 116 sayfa
...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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 620 sayfa
...; 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,... | |
 | George Grant (author of Panorama of science.) - 1852 - 268 sayfa
...war, like a bauble, in the air It can embroider muslins, and forge anchors ; cut steel intoribbands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves." Another application of it is perhaps destined to be productive of still greater changes on the condition... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 sayfa
...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...to estimate the value of the benefits which these inventions have conferred upon this country. There is no branch of industry that has not been indebted... | |
 | Thomas Osmond Summers - 1856 - 200 sayfa
...war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslins, and forge anchors; cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves." James Watt was born at Greenock, in Scotland, on the 19th of January, 1736. His descent has been traced... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1857 - 292 sayfa
...metal before itj draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift up a ship of war, like a bauble, in the air. It can embroider muslin...to estimate the value of the benefits which these inventions have conferred upon the country. There is no branch of industry that has not been indebted... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 sayfa
...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 muslin...to estimate the value of the benefits which these inventions have conferred upon this country. There is no branch of industry that has not beeu indebted... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1857 - 464 sayfa
...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...vessels against the fury of the winds and waves."* Examples. 1. Behold my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry ; behold my servants shall drink,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 sayfa
...shipof-war like a hauhle in the air. It can emhroider muslin and forge anchors— cut steel into rihands and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It would he difficult to estimate the value of the henefits which these inventions have conferred upon this... | |
 | Jane Marcet - 1858 - 630 sayfa
...thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bubble in the air. It can embroider muslin, forge anchors, cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded...to estimate the value of the benefits which these inventions have conferred upon the country. There is no branch of industry that has not been indebted... | |
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