 ... caterpillars are placed at the bottom. A peculiar species is chosen, which spins a strong web; and the animals commence at the bottom, eating and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every...  On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures - Page 105by Charles Babbage - 1835 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1832 - 586 pages
...way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils,...strength, is truly surprising. One of them, measuring 26J inches, weighed only 1.51 grains, a degree oflightness which will appear more strongly by contrast... | |
 | 1832 - 488 pages
...way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils,...strength, is truly surprising. One of them, measuring 26¿ inches, weighed only 1.51 grains, a degree ofljghtness which will appear more strongly by contrast... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils,...strongly by contrast with other fabrics. One square wil of the substance of which these veils are made, weighs four grains and one third ; whilst one square... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - American periodicals - 1833 - 530 pages
...way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils,...inches by seventeen inches, weighed only 1.51 grains, a degre? of lightness which will appear more strongly by contrast with other fabrics. One square yard... | |
 | William Pinnock - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 738 pages
...way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils,...half inches by seventeen inches, weighed only 1.51 gïain, a degree of lighuess which will [appear more strongly by contrast with other fabric». One... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1833 - 426 pages
...way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils,...and a half inches by seventeen inches, weighed only 1-51 graine, a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly by contrast with other fabrics.... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils,...truly surprising. One of them, measuring twenty-six anda half inches by seventeen inches, weighed only 1.51 grains, a degree of lightness which will appear... | |
 | 1833 - 310 pages
...way up to the top. carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils,...strength, is truly surprising-. One of them, measuring 2GJ by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly... | |
 | 1833 - 814 pages
...part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness of ihese veils, combined with some strength, is truly surprising. One of them, measuring 26i by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree of lightness which w ill appear more strongly... | |
 | 1838 - 472 pages
...way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils,...strength, is truly surprising. One of them measuring 'Jl.ij by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree of lightness which will appear mere... | |
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