Instead of using steam he employed a number of men to propel the craft, and with this air-ship he hoped to communicate with the besieged city of Paris.
A steam-engine, with a boiler of sufficient power to propel a balloon, is so heavy that it would require a balloon of impossible size to lift it.
Why does the pressure applied to the handle of an air pistol propel the cork?
Why will a bow stretched out of its natural position, propel an arrow through the air?
All manual labor was done by slaves, in towns as well as the country; they were used in the navy to propel the galleys.
The officers of the boat and many of the passengers were hurrying round, with busy feet, and using necessary efforts to propel their speed.
I managed, indeed, to propel the boat by rowing with two oars, but the use of the single paddle is quite beyond my present skill.
The current, likewise, lingered along so gently that it was merely a pleasure to propel the boat against it.
Defn: An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.
To propel, as a boat in shallow water, by pushing with a pole against the bottom; to push or propel (anything) with exertion.
Socket pole, a pole armed with iron fixed on by means of a socket, and used to propel boats, etc.
A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
Its momentum is so great that it may propel the child into the course of duty before he has time to discuss the question, or to parley with his conscience concerning it.
If one should attempt to propel such a machine with wings, it would be quite as difficult a problem to solve as it would be to make a locomotive that would walk on legs.
Both species swim by means of rapid strokes of the tail, which propelthem backwards to a considerable distance at each repetition.
The vein became tense during the operation, and sensibly resisted the attempts that were made to propel its contents towards the heart.
In this case, deglutition could not be well performed, and she was obliged to use her finger to propel the masticated food downwards.
Ere then the patient again finds himself unable to propel air easily through the nostril, and, on examination, greyish, shining tumours are again visible.
In still other cases, the heart degenerates with minute particles of fat deposited in its structures, and thus loses its power to propel the nutritive fluid.
The veins have no force-pump, like the arteries, to propeltheir contents towards their destination.
With this assistance Amory managed to get his legs in motion enough to propelhim across Forty-second Street.
But Amory was not in a mood for that, and as he saw Burne's long legs propel his ridiculous bicycle out of sight beyond Alexander Hall, he knew he was going to have a bad week.
After contemplating these facts, it appears remarkable that the energy that can creep through this diminutive passage can by any means be made to develop the force necessary to propel a car with a heavy load up a steep grade.
It was to propel a vessel by forcing water through the stern, at a convenient distance under the surface of the water, into the sea, by suitable engines on board.
With little gravity on the asteroid, he couldn't fall, but a false step could lift him into space and make him lose time while he got out an air bottle to propel him down again.
Driving the first spike would be the hardest, because the action of swinging the hammer would propel the Planeteer like a rocket exhaust.
A keel-boat would carry from twenty to forty tons of freight well protected from the weather; it required from six to ten men, in addition to the captain, who was usually the steersman, to propel it upstream.
Hence they were useless in low water, very hard to propel against the current, and their carrying capacity was greatly reduced.
The fresh water shrimp is a curious little creature, sometimes he paddles his three pairs of hind legs and sometimes he jerks his body in a ludicrous manner, in either case he manages to propel himself rapidly through the water.
The more angular the wing of birds--that is to say, the longer the feathers on the edge of the wing--the more rapidly does it propel itself through the air.
Many have their toes joined by thin membranes, which act as paddles by which theypropel themselves through the water.
On the appearance of a boat they glide as it were out of sight under the water, without noise or flutter, and thence pursue their way with great rapidity, using wings as well as feet to propel themselves.
