 The warp was placed perpendicularly, the reed fell with the weight of at least half a hundred weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to...  The Popular Science Monthly - Page 3071891Full view - About this book
 | Richard Guest - 1823 - 110 pages
...the springs which threw the shuttle were strong " enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of " two powerful men to...machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time. " Conceiving in my great simplicity, that I had accomplished all that was required, " I then secured... | |
 | 1824 - 884 pages
...strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of two powerful inen to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time. Conceiving, in my great simplicity, that I had accomplished all that was required, I then secured what... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pages
...the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work...machine, at a slow rate, and only for a short time. Conceiving in my simplicity that I had accomplished all that was required, I then secured what I thought... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 432 pages
...the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work...machine, at a slow rate, and only for a short time. Conceiving in my simplicity that I had accomplished all that was required, I then secured what I thought... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 438 pages
...the springs which threw the shuttle wore strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work...machine, at a slow rate, and only for a short time Conceiving in my simplicity that I had accomplished all that was required, I then secured what I thought... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - 1831 - 370 pages
...the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket ; in short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work...machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time. Conceiving, in my great simplicity, that I had accomplished all that was required, I then secured what... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - 1832 - 290 pages
...the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Cohgreve rocket ; in short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only fora short time. Conceiving, in my great simplicity, that I had accomplished all that was required,... | |
 | Sir Edward Baines - 1835 - 590 pages
...the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work...machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time. Conceiving, in my great simplicity, that I had accomplished all that was required, I then secured what... | |
 | 1835 - 492 pages
...the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work...machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time." This, as we have seen, was in 1785: he also applied his talents to effecting the substitution of machinery... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1836 - 296 pages
...the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work...machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time." This, as we have seen, was in 1785: he also applied his talents to effecting the substitution of machinery... | |
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