 | John McGilchrist - 1860 - 404 pages
...itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop.' 1 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... | |
 | Education - 1861 - 552 pages
...round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside 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 ipring of whalebone; but found I could not make the watch go when the balance was put on, because the... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1863 - 332 pages
...thanking him, told him that he understood the thing very well. " I then," continues his narrative, " tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone. I enclosed the whole in a wooden case very little bigger than a breakfast tea-cup, but a clumsy neighbour... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Biography - 1865 - 590 pages
...round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop.' I thanked the gentleman, and told him I understood the thing very well. I then tried to...a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalehone ; but found that I could not make the wheel go when the balance was put on, because the teeth... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 pages
...round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop.' I thanked the gentleman, and told him I understood the thing very well. I then tried to...a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalehone ; but found that I could not make the wheel go when the balance was put on, because the teeth... | |
 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1867 - 534 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 thing very well."''1 I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; 3- This... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869 - 526 pages
...round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop." I thanked the gentleman, and told him I understood the thing very well. I then tried to...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... | |
 | Horace A. Cleveland - Literature - 1869 - 610 pages
...round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop/ I thanked the gentleman, and told him I understood the thing very well. I then tried to...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,... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Men - 1869 - 324 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... | |
 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1870 - 550 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 thing very well.32 I then tried to make a watch with wooden wheels, and made the spring of whalebone ; 3* This... | |
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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. 
