 In fact her annihilation was complete, and the effect was most extraordinary. The power, as I had calculated, passed in a right line through her body, that being the line of least resistance, and carried all before it. At the time of her going up, she...  Life and Character of Robert Fulton - Side 1081839 - 120 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Cadwallader David Colden - 1817 - 406 sider
...broken hi three pieces; her beams and knees were thrown from her decks and sides, and her deck planks were rent to fibres. In fact, her annihilation was...feathers, and went to pieces like a shattered egg-shell." Notwithstanding the complete success of this experiment, the British ministry seem to have been but... | |
 | Cadwallader David Colden - 1817 - 400 sider
...decks and sides, and her deck planks were rent to fibres. In fact, her annihilation was com59 plete, and the effect was most extraordinary. The power,...feathers, and went to pieces like a shattered egg-shell." Notwithstanding the complete success of this experiment, the British ministry seem to have been but... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - 1821 - 448 sider
...broken in three pieces ; her beams and knees were thrown from her decks and sides, and her deck planks were rent to fibres. In fact her annihilation was...feathers, and went to pieces like a shattered eggshell." Notwithstanding the complete success of this experiment, the British ministry seem to have been but... | |
 | John Franklin Reigart - 1856 - 408 sider
...three pieces, her beams and knees were thrown from her deck and sides, and her deck planks were rent in fibres. In . fact, her annihilation was complete,...feathers, and went to pieces like a shattered eggshell." Mr. Fulton embarked at Falmouth in October, 1806, and arrived at New York, by the way of Halifax, on... | |
 | John Franklin Reigart - 1856 - 422 sider
...•! . • ••. • • it . .-С .> ~ > V •••,,-V"v^ ^' ',» -•;>* v •> :» . • ¡ fact, her annihilation was complete, and the effect...feathers, and went to pieces like a shattered eggshell." Mr. Fulton embarked at Falmouth in October, 1806, and arrived at New York, by the way of Halifax, on... | |
 | Frederick Whymper - 1883 - 712 sider
...broken in three pieces ; her beams and knees were thrown from her deck and sides, and her deck planks were rent to fibres. In fact, her annihilation was...feathers, and went to pieces like a shattered egg-shell." Notwithstanding the complete success of the experiment, the British ministry seem to have been but... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - 1886 - 538 sider
...three pieces, her beams and knees were thrown from her deck and sides, and her deck-planks were rent in fibres. In fact, her annihilation was complete, and...feathers, and went to pieces like a shattered egg-shell." The ministry was a long while in deciding upon Fulton's invention, and the inventor waited somewhat... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1891 - 230 sider
...her completely in two. The ends sank immediately, and nothing was seen but floating fragments." ..." In fact, her annihilation was complete, and the effect was most extraordinary." The vessel " went " to pieces like a shattered eggshell." Nothing came of his efforts, however, in Great... | |
 | William Graham Sumner - 1904 - 508 sider
...her completely in two. The ends sank immediately, and nothing was seen but floating fragments." ..." In fact, her annihilation was complete, and the effect was most extraordinary." The vessel " went to pieces like a shattered eggshell." Nothing came of his efforts, however, in Great... | |
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