 | Exemplary and instructive biography - Biography - 1836 - 348 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 554 pages
...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,...gentleman, and told him that I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; but found... | |
 | Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1840 - 492 pages
...it round your finger; it will then endeavor to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...gentleman, 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... | |
 | Self-culture - 1840 - 298 pages
...roung 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,...gentleman, and told him that I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; but found... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1831 - 446 pages
...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,...gentleman, and told him that I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; but found... | |
 | Henry Howe - Industrial arts - 1842 - 516 pages
...it round your finger ; it will then endeavor to unwind itself; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself,...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1845 - 778 pages
...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,...gentleman,' and told him that I understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; but found... | |
 | Charlotte Eliza Sargeant - 1852 - 234 pages
...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,...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
...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,...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... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - Astronomers - 1854 - 544 pages
...ring, like the rim of a good-sized pill-box, and leave the whalebone to itself, it will turn the rim round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside." The lad thanked the Captain, and said, now he understood it perfectly. " Not quite so fast, youngster,"... | |
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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,... 
