Since electrical lines had not yet reached his neighborhood, Baekeland hooked up a steam engine from an old White steam automobile to run an agitator.

因为电线尚未连到他的邻居，贝克·兰德从一个旧白色汽车勾起蒸汽机，来运行搅拌器。

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But what he means is a technological miracle of the kind that happens from time to time. The steam engine, the automobile, the computer, the Internet are all miracles.

但他所指的奇迹是关于科学技术的，这样的奇迹每隔一段时间就会出现，蒸汽机、汽车、计算机以及因特网即是。

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Singer believes that the drones will be as transformative as the advent of gunpowder, the steam engine, the automobile, or the computer.

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Transformative inventions--the printing press, steam engine, telegraph, automobile, airplane, radio and television, computer and Internet and so on--require constant investment.

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For example, railways came into existence because of the invention of the steam engine and automobiles were created because of technology breakthroughs in automobile engines.

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