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| 释义 | 蒸汽机 The steam engine, the telephone, the television, the pneumatic tyre, and the Internet can all be stamped ' Made in Britain'. The steam engine, evolution, the computer and the World Wide Web were all conceived of by British brains. The steam engine did more than change travel. The steam engine ushered in the industrial age, but also generated a century of wars over the ownership of raw materials and access to new markets. The steam engine ushered in the industrial age, but also generated a century of wars over the ownership of raw materials and access to new market. As the19th century waned, steam and the Suez Canal meant that there was less and less call on Ascension for services to shipping. It would be a return, in a way, to a time when older steam engines once worked in the fields. It would be a return, in a way, to a time when old-fashioned steam engines once worked in the fields. Freeman says America's labor force changed dramatically over the years with the rise of steam power and the abolition of slavery. Trade up the Hudson river was controlled by an aristocratic elite with pretensions to secure a steamboat monopoly. There are several possibilities being researched at present, such as electric, gas turbine, and “ steam” engines. Man created it, but it has grown too large for the mind of any man to understand in one conception as a mind understands a steam engine or a simple chemical formula. Shakespeare, Hamlet, the ancient Greeks and Romans could not imagine steam engines, railways, and the industry of the18th and19th centuries. Milk cows and carrots, therefore, are human inventions as much as steam engines and gunpowder are. By contrast, the Titanic, built by White Star Line nearly a century ago and at the time the largest steam ship ever, measured 269 metres and was less than a fifth of the size of today’s behemoths. A small island making steam engines by hand inevitably fell behind a bountiful continent that mass- produced motor cars on assembly lines. For Watt did not actually invent the steam engine. Laws that became the basis of a technological and social revolution: steam power and the industrial revolution. Just as nobody could have predicted the impact of the steam engine in1750-or the printing press in 1450, or the transistor in 1950- it is impossible to foresee the long-term impact of3D printing. The need to understand and improve the steam engine also revolutionised science, creating the fundamental branch of physics known as thermodynamics. Before the steam engine and the power loom gave Britain its industrial lead, today's emerging economies dominated world output. James Watt invented the modern steam engine, doubling the efficiency of the engines that had come before. |
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