 ... 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 - 1903 - 354 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... | |
 | William Henry Doolittle - 1903 - 550 pàgines
...steam. In comparison with the past, what centuries of improvement has this single agent compressed in the short compass of fifty years ! Everywhere practicable,...fitting a thousand times as many hands as belonged to Briareus. Steam is found triumphant in operation on the seas ; and under the influence of its strong... | |
 | William Henry Doolittle - 1903 - 562 pàgines
...words of Daniel Webster:— " And, last of all, with inimitable power, and with a ' whirlwind sound' comes the potent agency of steam. In comparison with...what centuries of improvement has this single agent compressed in the short compass of fifty years! Everywhere practicable, everywhere efficient, it has... | |
 | Alfred Richard Sennett - 1905 - 1266 pàgines
...soul of steel, And a Samson in every limb.' 'SANDY' ANDERSON. 'And last of all, with inimitable power, 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. It is on the rivers, and the boatman... | |
 | Edwin Campbell Woolley - 1909 - 492 pàgines
...knows. He does. He approves also. (fir) Right : The hope has failed. It was a delusion. (A) Right : Everywhere practicable, everywhere efficient, it has an arm a thousand times stronger than that of l See Exercises 684-«99, 734-738. cations END PUNCTUATION Hercules, and a thousand times as many hands... | |
 | 1854 - 694 pàgines
...and statesman, Daniel Webster, in a lecture he delivered at Boston, said, in allusion to steam power: "In comparison with the past, what centuries of improvement has this single agent comprised in the short space of fifty years ! What further improvements may still be made in the use of tins astonishing power,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 590 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... | |
 | O. C. (ed.) - 1993 - 204 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...everywhere efficient, it has an arm a thousand times 10 stronger than that of Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is capable of fitting a thousand times... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1853 - 312 pàgines
...uses ; and, last of all, with inimitable power, and " with whirlwind sound," comes the potent ageiicy of steam. In comparison with the past, what centuries...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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