 | 1842 - 634 pages
...character of a steam pony, may be seen, dragging after it, on a railroad, a hundred tons of merchandize, or a regiment of soldiers, with greater speed than...supernatural powers were occasionally at the command of man." Such is the ingenious and interesting description of the steam engine, of which it has been said, that... | |
 | Neil Arnott - Physics - 1827 - 692 pages
...dragging after it on a fail-road ninety tons of merchandize, or a regiment of soldiers, with speed greater than that of our fleetest coaches. It is the king...supernatural powers were occasionally at the command of man. It is no wonder that the inventor of an engine having such qualities as these, should receive the highest... | |
 | Neil Arnott - Physics - 1829 - 542 pages
...character of a steam poney may be seen dragging after it on a rail-road a hundred tons of merchandize, or a regiment of soldiers, with greater speed than...supernatural powers were occasionally at the command of man. We need not wonder that the inventor of an engine having such qualities, should receive the highest... | |
 | 1830 - 592 pages
...character of a steam poney, may be seen dragging after it on a rail-road a hundred tons of merchandize, or a regiment of soldiers, with greater speed than...fleetest coaches. It is the king of machines, and a perfect realization of the Genii of Eastern fable, whose supernatural powers were occasionally at the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Knowledge, Theory of - 1831 - 438 pages
...&.c, &.c ; and a small engine, in the character of a sleaar poney, may be seen dragging after it on a railroad a hundred tons of merchandise, or a regiment...powers were occasionally at the command of man.'* In addition to those difficulties which his unrivalled mechanical ingenuity enabled him to surmount,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pages
...miller, &c. &c. ; and a small engine, in the character of a steam poney, may be seen dragging after it on a railroad a hundred tons of merchandise, or a regiment...supernatural powers were occasionally at the command of man *." In addition to those difficulties which his unrivalled mechanical ingenuity enabled him to surmount,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophy - 1831 - 436 pages
...miller, &c. &c. ; and a small engine, in the character of a steam poney, may be seen dragging after it on a railroad a hundred tons of merchandise, or a regiment...supernatural powers were occasionally at the command of man *." In addition to those difficulties which his unrivalled mechanical ingenuity enabled him to surmount,... | |
 | Exemplary and instructive biography - Biography - 1836 - 348 pages
...miller, &c. &c ; and a small engine in the character of a steam pony may be seen dragging after it on a railroad a hundred tons of merchandise, or a regiment...coaches. It is the king of machines, and a permanent realisation of the genii of Eastern fable, whose supernatural powers were occasionally at the command... | |
 | Periodicals - 1837 - 260 pages
...miller, &c. ; and a small engine, in the character of a steam-pony, may be seen dragging after it on a railroad a hundred tons of merchandise, or a regiment...supernatural powers were occasionally at the command of man. In order, however, that the steam-engine may perform these wonders, and work in any of the capacities... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...miller, &c. ; and a small engine, in the character of a steam-pony, may be seen dragging after it on a railroad a hundred tons of merchandise, or a regiment...supernatural powers were occasionally at the command of man. In order, however, that the steam-engine may perform these wonders, and work in any of the capacities... | |
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... pony, may be seen dragging after it, on a railroad, a hundred tons of merchandise, or a regiment of soldiers, with greater speed than that of our fleetest coaches. It is the king of machines, and a permanent realization of the Genii of eastern fable,... 
