 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...thin piece of whalebone ; hold one end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger, it will then endeavour to unwind itself;...itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind tip a thread tied to the outside of the noop.' I thanked the gentleman, and told him that 1 understood... | |
 | Exemplary and instructive biography - Biography - 1836 - 348 pages
...long thin piece of whalebone, hold one end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger, it will then endeavour to unwind itself...of the hoop.' I thanked the gentleman, and told him I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring... | |
 | Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1840 - 492 pages
...end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger; it will then endeavor to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of...and told him that I understood the thing very well. 1 then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; but found that... | |
 | Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1842 - 516 pages
...end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger ; it will then endeavor to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of...thread tied to the outside of the hoop. I thanked the gentle. man, and told him that I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with... | |
 | Charlotte Eliza Sargeant - 1852 - 234 pages
...thin piece of whalebone ; hold one end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger, it will then endeavour to unwind itself...the outside of the hoop. I thanked the gentleman, " he adds," and told him I understood the thing very well." He contrived to make a watch on these principles,... | |
 | Popular educator - 1852 - 842 pages
...long, thin piece of whalebone, hold one end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger, it will then endeavour to unwind itself,...round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the ouuide of the hoop.' I thanked the gentleman, and told him that I understood the thing very well. I... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1853 - 372 pages
...long thin piece of whalebone, hold one end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger, it will then endeavour to unwind itself;...understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watrh with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; but found that I could not make the watch... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - Astronomers - 1854 - 544 pages
...fast by your thumb, and wind it round your fore finger, you will then find that the whalebone will try to unwind itself ; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a flat ring, like the rim of a good-sized pill-box, and leave the whalebone to itself, it will turn the... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 pages
...long thin piece of whalebone, hold one end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger, it will then endeavour to unwind itself;...wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop." This was enough. Ferguson thanked the gentleman, and told him that he now understood the thing perfectly.... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - Astronomy - 1855 - 538 pages
...fast by your thumb, and wind it round your fore finger, you will then find that the whalebone will try to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a flat ring, like the rim of a good-sized pill-box, and leave the whalebone to itself, it will turn the... | |
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take a long thin piece of whalebone, hold one end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger; it will then endeavour to unwind itself ; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,... 
