 | Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin - 1860 - 448 pagine
...some respects the nightingale's throat. This instrument would have to work mechanically ; clock work set in motion the bellows, opened or closed a valve...less than the other, as it was purely mechanical. myself under an oak, near which I had often heard a nightingale sing, which I thought was the " star... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 478 pagine
...notes, while it guided the piston according to the different degrees of speed and depth wanted. Houdin had also to impart motion to the bird : it must move...accordance with the sounds it produced, flap its wings, and leap from branch' to branch, which, however, was purely a mechanical labor. After repeated experiments,... | |
 | World - 1868 - 528 pagine
...while it guided the piston according to the different degrees of speed and strength wanted. Houdin had also to impart motion to the bird. It must move...accordance with the sounds it produced, flap its wings, and leap from branch to branch — which, however, was purely a mechanical labour. After repeated experiments,... | |
 | World - 1874 - 452 pagine
...while it guided the piston according to the different degrees of speed and strength wanted. Houdin had also to impart motion to the bird. It must move...accordance with the sounds it produced, flap its wings, and leap from branch to branch — which, however, was purely a mechanical labour. After repeated experiments,... | |
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... respects, the nightingale's throat. The instrument had to work mechanically; clockwork set in motion the bellows, opened or closed a valve which produced the twittering, the modulation, and the sliding notes, while it guided the piston according to... 