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" ... 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... "
The American Library of Useful Knowledge - Page 50
1831 - 320 pages
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The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the ..., Volume 10

David Josiah Brewer - 1901 - 480 pages
...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. Steam is found in triumphant operation on the seas; and under the influence...
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A History of the Growth of the Steam-engine

Robert Henry Thurston - 1902 - 572 pages
...which human ingenuity is capable of fitting a thousand times as many hands as belonged to Uriareus. Steam is found in triumphant operation on the seas;...influence of its strong propulsion, the gallant ship — 1 Apiinst th« wiml. upmtst the tide, Still steadies with au upright keel.' It is on the rivers,...
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Inventions in the Century

William Henry Doolittle - 1903 - 562 pages
...fifty years! Everywhere practicable, everywhere efficient, it has an arm a thousand times stronger than that of Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is...many hands as belonged to Briareus. Steam is found triumphant in operation on the seas; and under the influence of its strong propulsion, the gallant...
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Garden Cities in Theory and Practice: Being an Amplification of a ..., Volume 2

Alfred Richard Sennett - 1905 - 1266 pages
...years ! Everywhere practicable, everywhere efficient, it has an arm a thousand times stronger than that of Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is...Steam is found in triumphant operation on the seas. It is on the rivers, and the boatman may repose on his oars. It is on the highways, ami exerts itself...
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The Mechanics of Writing: A Compendium of Rules Regarding Manuscript ...

Edwin Campbell Woolley - 1909 - 440 pages
...that of (a) (6) (c) (<J) (e) (/) ( ( l See Exercises 684-699, 734-738. -; See 243, 244. Hercules, and a thousand times as many hands as belonged to Briareus....against the tide, Still steadies with an upright keel." (i) Right : That's right. Bind him. Now gag him. (f) Right : Wait. I have a question. Have you registered?...
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Approach To Life,The

O. C. (ed.) - 1993 - 204 pages
...years ! Everywhere practicable, everywhere efficient, it has an arm a thousand times 10 stronger than that of Hercules, and to which human ingenuity is capable of fitting a thousand times as many heads as belonged to Briareus. Steam is found in triumphant operation on the seas ; and under the influence...
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