 | Harry Howells Horton - 1853 - 304 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Harry Howells Horton - Birmingham (England) - 1853 - 310 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...ductility, with which that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that ean pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it....a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it- — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a shipof-war like a bauble... | |
 | Thomas Osmond Summers - Steam-engines - 1856 - 200 pages
...for 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...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 oi' war like a bauble... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Electricity - 1856 - 502 pages
...flexibility ; for the prodigious power it can exert, and the ease and precision and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk...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... | |
 | W. O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1016 pages
...whole domain of human industry. 6 The trunk of an elephant,' it has been truly said of this machine, 4 that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, is as nothing...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,... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - Engineering - 1856 - 374 pages
...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 as gossamer, and lift a ship of war... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - Engineering - 1856 - 450 pages
...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 as gossamer, and lift a ship of war... | |
 | William O. Blake - Biography - 1856 - 1124 pages
...of an elephant,' it has been truly said of this machine, ' that can pick up a pin, or rend an oak, a as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate •etal like wax before it ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as nssamer ; and lift a ship... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...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,...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... | |
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By his admirable contrivance, 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, with which that power can be varied, distributed, and applied.... 
