 ... 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
 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction VOL.XXXII - 1838 - 474 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, combined with some strength, ia truly surprising. One of them measuring 26¿ by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree... | |
 | 1839 - 444 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 viiJ by 17 inches, weighed only a groin and a half, a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly... | |
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...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^ by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly... | |
 | 1839 - 568 pages
...way to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part ol the paste. The extreme lightness of these veils, combined...strength, is truly surprising. One of them, measuring 264 by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly... | |
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...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 a grain and a half; a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly by contrast with other fabrics.... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 880 pages
...but devouring every other part of the paste. The j extreme lightness of these veils, combined xv nil some strength, is truly surprising. One of them measuring...degree of lightness which will appear more strongly by con- ! trast with other fabrics. Out square yard of the substance of which these veils are made, weighs... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 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£ by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1858 - 868 pages
...way to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devour- I ing every other part of the paste. The . extreme lightness of these veils,..., half inches by seventeen inches, weighed . only l.äl grains — a degree of lightness ; which will appear more strongly by con- , trast with other... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 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 grains. — Babbage on " The Economy of Machinery." The Paston Letteri. — This very curious... | |
 | R. E - 1849 - 430 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£ by 17 inches weighed only one grain and a half! a degree of lightness which will appear more extraordinary... | |
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