 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 Seiten
...precision, and ductility, with which that power can be varied, 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 of obdurate metal before it — draw out,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 Seiten
...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 rend an oak, is as nothing to it It can engrave a seal and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 Seiten
...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 rend an oak, is as nothing to it It can engrave a seal and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 Seiten
...precision, and ductility, with which that power can be varied, 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 of obdurate metal before it — draw out,... | |
 | Harry Howells Horton - 1853 - 310 Seiten
...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 an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it — draw out,... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 Seiten
...precision, and ductility with which that power can be varied, 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 of obdurate metal before it — draw out,... | |
 | Harry Howells Horton - 1853 - 304 Seiten
...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 an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it— draw out,... | |
 | 1855 - 708 Seiten
...power which it can exercise, and the ease, and precisian, and ductility with which it can be .varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of the elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend aa oak, is nothing to it It can engrave a tt»l, or crush masses of obdurate metal like was before... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - 1856 - 450 Seiten
...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 an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - 1856 - 374 Seiten
...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 an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine... | |
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... and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into... 
