 | Half hours - 1856 - 456 pages
...its utility, he should rather be described as its Inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, a.ici its power BO increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivance,... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...chilled into despair by failure, to perfect a series of inventions by which the action of steam is so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures. A power which was to the delicate and complex structures, formed by the Promethean mind of Arkwright... | |
 | Francis Wayland - Economics - 1857 - 292 pages
...steamengine, which has commonly been ascribed to the late Lord Jeffrey : — " It " (the steam-engine) " has become a thing stupendous alike for its force...prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, precision, and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant,... | |
 | Jane Marcet - 1858 - 630 pages
...its utility, he should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his invention that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied...weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing alike stupendous for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1858 - 480 pages
...on errands round the heavens. — Quarterly Review. 3. Tun STEAM-ENGINE. — It has become a thirg stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility,...for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the case and precision and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1859 - 430 pages
...improver, or rather, we may say, its inventor, was James Watt. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied...weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1859 - 450 pages
...their fleecy messenger0 on errands round the heavens. — Quarterly Review. 3. TILE STEAM-ENGINE. — It has become a thing stupendous alike for its force...for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the case and precision and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1861 - 550 pages
...Jeffrey on the same subject, the steam-engine, which 1 will read to you. 12. The Steam-engine. — "It has become a thing stupendous alike for its force'...prodigious power which it can exert', and the ease, precision, and ductility with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied1. The trunk of an elephant,... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 pages
...its utilily, he should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated, as to make it capable of being applied...stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility; for the prodis;ious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which that power... | |
 | Englishmen - Great Britain - 1863 - 912 pages
...its utility, he should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied...weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious... | |
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It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable... 
