 It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of 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 and forge anchors — cut steel into ribands, and...  James Watt - Page 227by Andrew Carnegie - 1905 - 241 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 754 pages
...oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it—draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer,...bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors,—cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 756 pages
...oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of 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 MR. JAMES WATT, the great improver of the steamengine, died on the 25th of August, 1819, at his seat... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 330 pages
...of obdurate metal 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 and forge anchors—cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the wmds and waves."... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk...like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin aiid forge anchors — cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1847 - 448 pages
...rend an oak," is as 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...embroider muslin and forge anchors ; cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves." And another application... | |
 | Frederick Rowton - 1850 - 334 pages
...masses of metal " before it ; 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, and forge anchors ; cut steel into rib" bons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury " of the winds and waves." I will now leave the... | |
 | Frederick Rowton - 1850 - 334 pages
...masses of metal " before it ; 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, and forge anchors ; cut steel into rib" bons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury " of the winds and waves." I will now leave the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1850 - 408 pages
...metal before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of wai like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors ; cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the windi and waves." eduction-pipe, communicating... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk...embroider muslin and forge anchors — cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It would be difficult to... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...elephant, that ean piek up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It ean engrave a seal, and erush masses of obdurate metal before it — draw out, without...and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It ean embroider muslin and forge anehors — eut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against... | |
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