A rotary engine attached to the steam engine enabled shafts to be turned and machines to be driven, resulting in mills using steam power to spin and weave cotton.

连接在蒸汽机上的旋转式发动机使轴承转动，机器得以驱动，从而使得利用蒸汽动力纺线和织布的工厂出现。

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Who invented the steam engine?

谁发明了蒸汽机？

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This was to occur with progress in the development of the steam engine.

这是随着蒸汽机的发展进步而发生的。

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But when the tweakers took over the efficiency of the steam engine swiftly quadrupled.

NEWYORKER: The Tweaker

Mechanisation, from the steam engine onwards, lightened the load of manual labour, creating jobs and wealth.

BBC: Technology

The steam engine, the first to be officially recorded at 100mph, was bought for the nation in 2004.

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