 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1867 - 534 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; and if you fix the other end of it to Action of a Watch Main-spring Illustration. the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself, it... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869 - 526 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... | |
 | Horace A. Cleveland - Literature - 1869 - 610 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...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, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1870 - 550 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; and if you fix the other end of it to Action of a Watch Main-spring Illustration. the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself, it... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 276 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... | |
 | William Chambers - Biography - 1873 - 326 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... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - Biography - 1874 - 370 pages
...hold one end fast between your finger and thumb, and wind the whalebone round your finger; it will endeavour to unwind itself: and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, it will turn the hoop round and round, and will wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop.'3... | |
 | Biography - 1877 - 814 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;...understood the thing very well. I then tried to make a watrb with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; but found that I could not make the wheel... | |
 | James Frederick Skinner Gordon - Banffshire (Scotland) - 1880 - 488 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;...small Hoop, and leave it to itself, it will turn the Eoop round and round, and wind up a Thread tied to the outside of the Hoop." — I thanked the Gentleman,... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - Conduct of life - 1881 - 658 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...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... | |
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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,... 
