... comes the potent agency of steam. In comparison with the past, what centuries of improvement has this single agent comprised, in the short compass of fifty years ! Everywhere practicable, everywhere efficient, it has an arm a thousand times stronger... A History of the Growth of the Steam-engine - Pàgina 301per Robert Henry Thurston - 1878 - 490 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 pàgines
...an accommodation to new uses, and, last of all, with inimitable power, and " with whirlwind sound," comes the potent agency of steam. In comparison with...fitting a thousand times as many hands as belonged to Briareus. Steam is found, in triumphant operation, on the seas; and under the influence of its strong... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 pàgines
...an accommodation to new uses, and, last of all, with inimitable power, and " with whirlwind sound," comes the potent agency of steam. In comparison with...thousand times stronger than that of Hercules, and to *hich human ingenuity is capable of fitting a thousand times as many hands as belonged to Bnareus.... | |
| 1831 - 336 pàgines
...an accommodation to new uses, and, last of all, with inimitable power, and " with whirlwind sound," comes the potent agency of steam. In comparison with...agent comprised, in the short compass of fifty years! Every where practicable, every where efficient, it has an arm a thousand times stronger than that of... | |
| 1831 - 336 pàgines
...years ! Every where practicable, every where efficient, it has an arm a thousand times stronger dian that of Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is...fitting a thousand times as many hands as belonged to Briareus. Steam is found, in triumphant operation, on the seas ; and under the influence of its strong... | |
| Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1831 - 248 pàgines
...accommodation to new uses, and, last of all, with inimitable power, and " with whirlwind sound," conies the potent agency of steam. In comparison with the past, what centuries of improve ment has this single agent comprised, in the short compass of fifty years ! Everywhere practicable,... | |
| 1834 - 614 pàgines
...into an accommodation to new uses, and last of all with inimitable power, and 'with whirlwind sound' comes the potent agency of steam. In comparison with...fitting a thousand times as many hands as belonged to Briareus. Steam is found in triumphant operation on the seas, and under the influence of its strong... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pàgines
...into an accommodation to newuses, and, lastof all, with inimitable power, and with " whirlwind sound," comes the potent agency of steam. In comparison with the past, what centuries of improvement hasthis single agent comprised in the short compass of fifty years ! Every where practicable, every... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 614 pàgines
...an accommodation to new uses ; and, last of all, with inimitable power, and " with whirlwind sound," comes the potent agency of steam. In comparison with...ingenuity is capable of fitting a thousand times as many heads as belonged to Briareus. Steam is found in triumphant operation on the seas ; and under the influence... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - 292 pàgines
...an accommodation to new uses ; and, last of all, with inimitable power, and " with whirlwind sound," comes the potent agency of steam. In comparison with...agent comprised in the short compass of fifty years ! Every where practicable, every where efficient, it has an arm a thousand times stronger than that... | |
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