| 1856 - 422 Seiten
...manufactures; while its power may be so increased as to se weight and solidity at defiance. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. I can engrave a seal, or crush a mass of iron. It can draw out a filament, without... | |
| Thomas Osmond Summers - 1856 - 200 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, without... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1856 - 502 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, without... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1857 - 464 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,... | |
| Francis Wayland - 1857 - 292 Seiten
...ease, 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 itj draw out, without... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 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, without... | |
| Jane Marcet - 1858 - 630 Seiten
...ease, precision, and ductility with which they 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... | |
| James Patrick Muirhead - 1858 - 656 Seiten
...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... | |
| James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 652 Seiten
...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... | |
| Graduated series - 1859 - 462 Seiten
...precision, and ductility, with which that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of au 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, without... | |
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