Wonderful Inventions. From the Mariner's Compass to the Electric Telegraph CableGeorge Routledge and Sons, 1882 - 423 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
apparatus applied battery bell boat boiler Boulton Boulton and Watt built cable carried century Chassepot clock coal condenser constructed contrivance convex lens cotton cylinder David Brewster dial diameter distance EDDYSTONE LIGHTHOUSE Electric Telegraph employed engine England experiments feet fire four Galileo George Stephenson glass Gun-Cotton Gunpowder guns heat improvements inches instrument invention inventor iron James Watt labour length lens lenses light Lighthouse locomotive London machine machinery magnetic manufacture Marquis of Worcester means mechanical Messrs metal microscope miles an hour motion nearly needle needle-gun paddle-wheel pass patent pendulum piece pipe piston placed plates principle printed produced propelled rails railway rays reflecting Telescope rifled rollers round Royal screw Screw Propeller ship shot side speculum speed steam Steam-engine steamer Stephenson surface Telescope Thames threads tion tons tube turned vessel watch Watt weight wheels wire
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Seite 367 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?
Seite 124 - The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Seite 300 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquered Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air.
Seite 105 - ... families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament.
Seite 158 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Seite 89 - Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.
Seite 89 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Seite 196 - What further improvements may still be made in the use of this astonishing power, it is impossible to know, and it were vain to conjecture. What we do know is, that it has most essentially altered the face of affairs, and that no visible limit yet appears, beyond which its progress is seen to be impossible. If its power were now to be annihilated, if we were to miss it on the water and in the mills, it would seem as if we were going back to rude ages.
Seite 195 - ... 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 than that of Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is capable of fitting a thousand times as many heads as belonged to Briareus.
Seite 310 - We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine going at such a rate.