 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 ribands,...  Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania - Página 2471831Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John William Carleton - 1839 - 524 páginas
...steam power, is a sort of devil upon earth, that neither you nor I ever thought to have to do with. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship... | |
 | Dominique François J. Arago - 1839 - 290 páginas
...and applied. * First published in an Edinburgh newspaper, (the Scotsman,) of the 4th September 1810. 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... | |
 | Roads - 1839 - 360 páginas
...The trunk of an elephant," says an eloquent writer, "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 breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer; and lift up a ship of war, like... | |
 | Roads - 1839 - 404 páginas
...an 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 up a ship of war, like a bauble, in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors, cut steel... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 576 páginas
...the prodigious power which it " can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility with which it can be " varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk...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,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1840 - 288 páginas
...trunk of an elephant, it has been finely and truly said, 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 like wax before it ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer; and lift a ship of war like a... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 páginas
...trunk of an elephant, it has been finely and truly said, 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 like wax before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, — and lift a ship of war... | |
 | James Bischoff - 1842 - 508 páginas
...power which it can exert, the ease, and precision, and ductibility with which they can be variously distributed and applied. The trunk of an elephant,...seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax. It can draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble... | |
 | James Bischoff - 1842 - 632 páginas
...power whir!: it can exert, the ease, and precision, and ductibility with which they can be variously distributed and applied. The trunk of an elephant,...nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses i<f obdurate metal like wax. It can draw out, without breakinga thread as fine as gossamer, and lift... | |
 | James Bischoff - 1842 - 512 páginas
...an oak, is nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax. It can 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 the most delicate muslin, and forge an anchor, or cut steel into... | |
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