Who invented the steam engine?
谁发明了蒸汽机？
The coal-fired steam engine was taking over, and the waterwheel was fast becoming obsolete.
烧煤的蒸汽机开始占领市场，于是水车很快就过时了。
He thereby transformed an inefficient pump of limited use into a steam engine of a thousand uses.
因此，他将应用范围有限且效率低的蒸汽泵改造成了应用范围广泛的蒸汽发动机。
Since the steam engine was fired by coal, the large mills did not need to be located by rivers, as had mills that used water-driven machines.
由于蒸汽机是靠燃煤来驱动的，因此一些大型棉纺织厂就不再像那些使用水力驱动机器的工厂一样，必须依河而建。
However, the arrival of the steam engine initiated a complete transformation in rail transportation, entrenching and expanding the Industrial Revolution.
然而，蒸汽机的出现引发了铁路运输的彻底变革，并巩固和拓展了工业革命的成果。
The Frenchman Denis Papin had the idea for a steam engine almost a hundred years before James Watt was born, but Denis never had enough money to build one.
法国人丹尼斯·帕潘在詹姆斯·瓦特出生前近百年就有了制造蒸汽机的想法，但是他从来没有足够的资金去建造这样一台机器。
By 1800 more than a thousand steam engines were in use in the British Isles, and Britain retained a virtual monopoly on steam engine production until the 1830s.
到了1800年，一千多台蒸汽机在不列颠群岛运行，直到19世纪30年代，英国一直垄断着蒸汽机的生产。
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。
In the late 1700s James Watt designed an efficient and commercially viable steam engine that was soon applied to a variety of industrial uses as it became cheaper to use.
18世纪晚期，詹姆斯·瓦特设计了一种高效的、商业上可行的蒸汽机，随着它的使用成本越来越低，它很快被应用于各种工业用途。
In some industrial regions, heavily laden wagons, with flanged wheels, were being hauled by horses along metal rails; and the stationary steam engine was puffing in the factory and mine.
在一些工业地区，马匹正沿着金属轨道拉着满载货物、带法兰轮子的马车；固定的蒸汽机在工厂和矿井里噗噗作响。
Unfortunately this early plant experienced the problem common to many forms of renewable energy: the flow in the Wey River was unreliable, and the waterwheel was soon replaced by a steam engine.
不幸的是，这个早期的工厂遇到了许多可再生能源形态都遇到的问题：韦河的水流不稳定，而水车很快就被蒸汽机取代了。
James Watt's steam engine in 1765.
1765年詹姆斯·瓦特的高效蒸汽机。
James Watt spent 20 years laboring to perfect his steam engine.
詹姆斯·瓦特用了二十年工夫来改善他发明的蒸汽引擎。
The steam engine USES a fire in a boiler rather than inside the engine.
蒸汽机所利用的是锅炉中的火，而不是发动机里边的火。
The steam engine uses a fire in a boiler rather than inside the engine.
蒸汽机所利用的事锅炉中的火，而不是发动机里边的火。
David loves drawing trains. This is his latest drawing of a steam engine.
大卫喜欢画火车。这是他最近画的一张蒸汽火车的素描。
A scarlet steam engine was waiting next to a platform packed with people.
一辆深红色蒸汽机车停靠在挤满旅客的站台旁。
The main advantage of a steam engine is that you can use anything that burns as the fuel.
蒸汽发动机的主要优势是你可以使用任何可以燃烧的燃料。
The core of a steam engine is a cylinder that is sealed at one end and has a moving piston at the other.
蒸汽机的核心是汽缸。它一端密封，另一端有个可以移动的活塞。
Boulton and Watt worked together to pioneer the use of the steam engine in the cotton spinning industry;
博尔顿和瓦特共同努力以倡导蒸汽机在棉纺工业的使用；
James Watt invented the modern steam engine, doubling the efficiency of the engines that had come before.
詹姆斯·瓦特(James Watt)发明了现代蒸汽机，使引擎效率翻了一番。
More than 100 years ago in France, a scientist used heat from a solar collector to make steam to drive a steam engine.
在一百年前的法国，有一名科学家利用来自于太阳能收集器的热量产生蒸汽来驱动蒸汽机。
An old steam engine went slowly by, heading northeast, puffing great clouds of smoke and hauling a train of coal trucks.
一辆老式蒸汽机车喷着浓烟，拖着一节又一节的煤车缓慢地向东北方向开去。
The invention of steam engine by Watt marked the end of great tradition of labor with hands and the beginning of a new era of machinery.
瓦特蒸汽机的发明标志着手工劳动这一伟大传统的结束和机器时代的到来。
The steam engine, the transistor, the world Wide web-each of these ideas seemed to emerge from nowhere to change our world in fundamental ways.
蒸汽机、晶体管、互联网——每一个想法似乎都从天而降，从根本上改变了这个世界。
The need to understand and improve the steam engine also revolutionised science, creating the fundamental branch of physics known as thermodynamics.
为了解并改进蒸汽机，人们也需要革新科技，由此诞生了物理学的一个基本分支：热力学。
The need to understand and improve the steam engine also revolutionised science, creating the fundamental branch of physics known as thermodynamics.
为了解并改进蒸汽机，人们也需要革新科技，由此诞生了物理学的一个基本分支：热力学。
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