| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1887 - 476 oldal
...Lord Jaffrey, in a eulogy on Watt, said justly, — " By his admirable contrivances the steam engine has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, for the prodigious power it can exert, and the ease and precision and ductiliiy with which it can be varied, distributed, and... | |
| 1899 - 206 oldal
...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...the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its powers so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances it has... | |
| 1899 - 730 oldal
...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...force and its flexibility — for the prodigious power that it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility with which that power can be varied,... | |
| David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 454 oldal
...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 manufacturers, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 oldal
...in truth, 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...become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility—for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility... | |
| James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - 1909 - 584 oldal
...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...defiance. By his admirable contrivance it has become stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility ; for the prodigious power which it can exert, and... | |
| James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - 1909 - 576 oldal
...rather be deJames Watt, scribed as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action of tbTsteam was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the engine finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity... | |
| 1916 - 902 oldal
...with little success until James Watt, by his admirable contrivances, • regulatedthe steam engine so as to make it capable of being applied. to the finest and most delicate manufactures, as well as to the difficult work of the steel rolling mills, and the driving of freighted vessels against... | |
| Burns Club of St. Louis - 1918 - 100 oldal
...inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being 57 applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures,...prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, ductility and precision with which it can be varied, distributed and applied. The trunk of an elephant,... | |
| 1892 - 1204 oldal
...of Watt's career, published a few days after his death : " 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 flexibility, for the prodigious... | |
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