 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1814 - 420 pages
...itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop. I thanked the gentleman, and told him that I understood...a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whale\ bone ; but found that I could not make the watch go when the balance was put on, because the... | |
 | James Ferguson - Eclipses - 1823 - 406 pages
...itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop. I thanked the gentleman, and told him that I understood...the watch go when the balance was put on, because the teeth of the wheels were rather too weak to bear the force of a spring sufficient to move the balance... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 312 pages
...itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop. — I thanked the gentleman, and told him that I understood...the watch go when the balance •was put on, because the teeth of the wheels were rather too weak to bear the force of a spring sufficient to move the balance... | |
 | George Whitefield - 1830 - 314 pages
...itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop. — I thanked the gentleman, and told him that I understood...the watch go when the balance was put on, because the teeth of the wheels were rather too weak to bear the force of a spring sufficient to move the balance... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophy - 1830 - 440 pages
...itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop.' I thanked the gentleman, and told him that I understood...of whalebone ; but found that I could not make the wheel go when the balance was put on, because the teeth of the wheels were rather too weak to bear... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Education - 1830 - 452 pages
...itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop.' I thanked the gentleman, and told him that I understood...of whalebone; but found that I could not make the wheel go when the balance was put on, because the teeth of the wheels were rather too weak to bear... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1832 - 510 pages
...itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop.' I thanked the gentleman, and told him that I understood...of whalebone ; but found that I could not make the wheel go when the balance was put on, because the teeth of the wheels were rather too weak to bear... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Biography - 1832 - 336 pages
...itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop.' I thanked the gentleman, and told him that I understood...of whalebone ; but found that I could not make the wheel go when the balance was put on ; because the teeth of the wheels were rather too weak to bear... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop.' I thanked the gentleman, and told him that I understood...of "whalebone ; but found that I could not make the wheel go when the balance was put on, because the teeth of the wheels were rather too weak to bear... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...and wind tip a thread tied to the outside of the noop.' I thanked the gentleman, and told him that 1 understood the thing very well. I then tried to make...of whalebone ; but found that I could not make the wheel go, when the balance was put on, because the teeth of the wheels were rather too weak to bear... | |
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... to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop. 
