What accounts for the great outburst of major inventions in early America—breakthroughs such as the telegraph, the steamboat and the weaving machine?

是什么导致了早期美国例如电报、蒸汽船和织布机的重大发明的大量涌现？

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But the machine quickly moved into the garden with the railway, the world-shrinking telegraph, grid-straight roads, farm boundaries and industrialised agriculture.

可是机器便随着铁路而进入到园圃之中，使世界变小的电报、泾渭分明的道路、规划整齐的农场和工业化的农业。

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Although the telegraph has since been replaced by the even more convenient telephone, fax machine and Internet, its invention stands as a turning point in world history.

虽然电报已经被更为方便的电话、传真和因特网代替，但电报的发明成为了世界历史的一个转折点。

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He was the author of a number of discoveries relating to the telegraph industry, including a self-adjusting relay that solved the problem of circuits sticking open or shut, and a telegraph printer a precursor of what was later called the Teletype machine.

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