| Early English newspapers - 1819 - 780 pages
...the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has...force and its flexibility; for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they can be varied, distributed,... | |
| English essays - 1819 - 800 pages
...the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to ģel weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and it* flexibility ; for the prodigious power which it cau exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility,... | |
| Great Britain - 1820 - 494 pages
...the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has...its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious powers which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they can be varied,... | |
| Colin MacKenzie - 1821 - 724 pages
...the finest and most ddicate manufactures; and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has...force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, with which (hat power can be varied, distributed,... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1824 - 524 pages
...the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has...force and its flexibility; for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which they can be varied, distributed,... | |
| Industrial arts - 1824 - 492 pages
...the finest and most delicato manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, 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... | |
| Englishman - 1824 - 420 pages
...machinery may be placed in the compass of a closet. The variety and extent of its powers are wonderful. " The trunk of an elephant, which can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is nothing * Swartz of Cologne, 1.340. to it. It can engrave a seal, or crush masses of metal like wax... | |
| John Pierpont - Readers - 1825 - 494 pages
...at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, and those of a kindred and lamented genius in America,* 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... | |
| Charles Frederick Partington - Steam-engines - 1826 - 202 pages
...“has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and flexibility, for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, precision, and ductility...distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses... | |
| English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...for its fores and its flexibility,—for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the tase, 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 n ml an oak is aa nothing to it. It can engrave a eeal, and crush masses... | |
| |