 | 1899 - 730 стор.
...metal before it — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors — cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It would be difficult to... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 454 стор.
...that power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak is as nothing to it. It can engrave a...metal before it — draw out, without breaking, a thead as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 стор.
...power can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a...embroider muslin and forge anchors; cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It would be difficult to... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - 1905 - 262 стор.
...which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a...embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves. It would be difficult to... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - 1908 - 830 стор.
...which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a...it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors,... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - 1909 - 576 стор.
...which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an .elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a...; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors,... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - 1909 - 576 стор.
...seal and crush masses of obdurate metal before it ; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as a gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in...embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and the waves. It would be difficult... | |
 | James Augustin Brown Scherer - 1916 - 474 стор.
...the perfection of Watt's machine is well known: "The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a...the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves."6 The use of the new invention spread... | |
 | Burns Club of St. Louis - 1918 - 100 стор.
...which it can be varied, distributed and applied. The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a...bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge an anchor, cut steel into ribands and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves."... | |
 | Stephen Yafa - 2006 - 436 стор.
...offered his eloquent appraisal of Watt's achievement: "The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a...gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. . . ." Another contemporary, speaking to a group of mechanics in Paris, explained that "This machine... | |
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The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in... 
