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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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。

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Like airplanes, cars and steel mills, financial products are machines made of smaller, simpler components, such as bolts and gears.

就如同飞机、汽车和钢厂，金融产品就是一种简单的、小的部件组成的机器，就如同螺栓和齿轮。

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Steel is stretched and shrunk using planishing hammers, jig mills and Yoder roll-forming machines.

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Ross made International Steel Group into one of the largest U.S. steel producers by acquiring embattled mills out of bankruptcy and whipping them into efficient money-making machines.

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