Is it right to equate mechanical invention with civilization itself?

把机械发明视为文明本身对吗？

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Despite their drawbacks, sundials continued to be used for many years after the invention of mechanical clocks.

尽管日晷存在一定的缺点，但是在机械钟表出现之前，日晷一直是最常用的计时工具。

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The result of the invention of the steam engine was that human power was replaced by mechanical power.

蒸汽机发明的结果是机械力代替了人力。

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Pella had an army of window plant workers after World War II, when farmer Gary Vermeer turned a modest invention--a modified farm wagon with a mechanical hoist--into a company in 1948.

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Christian Parigger, associate professor of physics, and Jacqueline Johnson, associate professor of mechanical, aerospace, and biomedical engineering, along with Robert Splinter of Splinter Consultants, have developed the invention.

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