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If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred

centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost

perfectly flat line—until the eighteenth century, when the

Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up,

beginning an almost uninterrupted march of progress.

In The Most Powerful Idea in the World, William Rosen tells

the story of the men responsible for the Industrial Revolution and

the machine that drove it—the steam engine. In the process he

tackles the question that has obsessed historians ever since: What

made eighteenth-century Britain such fertile soil for inventors?

Rosen’s answer focuses on a simple notion that had become enshrined

in British law the century before: that people had the right to own

and profit from their ideas.

The result was a period of frantic innovation revolving

particularly around the promise of steam power. Rosen traces the

steam engine’s history from its early days as a clumsy but sturdy

machine, to its coming-of-age driving the wheels of mills and

factories, to its maturity as a transporter for people and freight

by rail and by sea. Along the way we enter the minds of such

inventors as Thomas Newcomen and James Watt, scientists including

Robert Boyle and Joseph Black, and philosophers John Locke and Adam

Smith—all of whose insights, tenacity, and ideas transformed first

a nation and then the world.

William Rosen is a masterly storyteller with a keen eye for the

“aha!” moments of invention and a gift for clear and entertaining

explanations of science. The Most Powerful Idea in the World

will appeal to readers fascinated with history, science, and the

hows and whys of innovation itself.

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If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they would show an almost perfectly flat line—until the eighteenth century, when the Industrial Revolution would cause the line to shoot straight up, beginning an almost uninterrupted march of progress.

In The Most Powerful Idea in the World , William Rosen tells the story of the men responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the machine that drove it—the steam engine. In the process he tackles the question that has obsessed historians ever since: What made eighteenth-century Britain such fertile soil for inventors? Rosen’s answer focuses on a simple notion that had become enshrined in British law the century before: that people had the right to own and profit from their ideas.

The result was a period of frantic innovation revolving particularly around the promise of steam power. Rosen traces the steam engine’s history from its early days as a clumsy but sturdy machine, to its coming-of-age driving the wheels of mills and factories, to its maturity as a transporter for people and freight by rail and by sea. Along the way we enter the minds of such inventors as Thomas Newcomen and James Watt, scientists including Robert Boyle and Joseph Black, and philosophers John Locke and Adam Smith—all of whose insights, tenacity, and ideas transformed first a nation and then the world.

William Rosen is a masterly storyteller with a keen eye for the “aha!” moments of invention and a gift for clear and entertaining explanations of science. The Most Powerful Idea in the World will appeal to readers fascinated with history, science, and the hows and whys of innovation itself.

• 作者：十三三十三 发布时间：2023-08-17 21:56:02

  无意识的错误，是一个讯号。不要着急地拿“反正我不是这么想的”去否定它，凭着这个讯号往那条路走去吧。会有新发现的。

• 作者：庄常飞 发布时间：2011-11-21 12:59:47

  比我想象的好很多，而且覆盖的范畴也广得多，也可算有养分，但涉及到工程的部分还是好无趣

• 作者：❤ Chemical 发布时间：2009-11-26 22:47:02

  第四个！！

• 作者：莘莘 发布时间：2016-05-05 16:30:12

  坐在

• 作者：叶藏.!!张寄奴 发布时间：2021-12-05 14:49:58

  也不能说误人子弟，但确实没什么参考。大多数的口诀也是拾人牙慧，没有让人信服的分析。（印刷也不太好）

• 作者：Aaron 发布时间：2024-01-24 23:08:55

  本书给我们呈现的就是来自于都市生活最本来的面貌，痛苦、孤独以及各种各样的问题是他们生活的主旋律，可是情感的交融才是这本书的核心，感受着人与人真情的美好才是这本书所致力要传达的观点。那就让我们在这本书的阅读过程中，感受着疗愈与孤独的情感流动，并通过书中主人公的故事温暖我们自己的心，让我们也感受着幸福和美好

• 妈妈再也不用担心我看不懂原文书了

  作者：Guitarman 发布时间：2013-08-25 15:00:53

  我虽远不及GRE的词汇量，但也凭借在《文法俱乐部》中习得的拆解句子的方法，愣是将书中一些句子拆了一遍

  难句的难点：复杂修饰、插入语、省略、倒装、抽象词汇、短语间隔、多重否定

  1、复杂修饰

  运用三种子句和三种对应减化子句的概念可以比较快的看熟此类难句，无非是句子主词有个形容词子句，动词有个副词子句，受词又来个减化形容词子句，然后再到各子句内部填子句或者减化子句，以表示丰富的意思

  有了心法后即可熟练生巧

  2、插入语、同位语

  插入语也都是句子主干某成分的子句或者减化子句，理应不该有难度，只是突然冒出来，打乱了理解的过程

  同位语，本质上也是子句或者减化子句

  同样，运用心法熟练生巧

  3、省略

  大多发生在合句中重复部分的省略、让步或者转折句中只有一字存在、子句关系词的省略，子句的减化

  同样要求心法

  4、倒装

  书中讲到，这里倒装不局限于动词或者助动词提到主词前面，而是一种广义的倒装，只要有某成分的后置即可认为是倒装

  bring A to B，如果A后面接了长的形容词子句bring A（adj.C）to B就可能被写作bring to B A（adj.C），还有insert A to B等类似结构

  make A（adj.C） possible同样可能写作make possible A（adj.C）

  5、抽象词汇

  这个没什么好说的，慢慢积累

  6、短语间隔

  from A to B，from A（adj.C（adv.C（，adj.C）））to B

  7、多重否定

  这不是一个非黑即白的世界，双重否定并不一定等于肯定

• 欺骗永远是悲剧的开始，即使是以爱的名义

  作者：djfish 发布时间：2016-08-15 22:05:05

  越亲密的人喜好越相同，有太多姐妹同喜欢一个男生的故事在上演。琼瑶的《一帘幽梦》里绿萍和紫菱都喜欢邻家大哥楚濂，上演一部爱情悲喜剧。特蕾西的《鸟儿的重力》里面娜塔莉和爱丽丝姐妹俩也是爱上了同一个男人，偶遇的画家托马斯。如果认为此小说是走琼瑶剧路线，就完全错了，此书并不是爱情小说，没有狗血的姐妹争夺过程，它是悬疑小说。讲亲情多于爱情，尤其对姊妹间感情的探究。姐姐以爱的名义几乎欺骗了妹妹一生，结局还算是大团圆的。

  小说采取双线叙事，配插叙，作者时间空间转换做得流畅自然。每个疑点都不点明，仅通过情境的描写，让读者恍然大悟，原来梗在这里，节奏掌握得很好。

  姐姐娜塔莉没有正面出现过，却是所有事的导火线。似乎每个人都恨她，但看到最后，谜团解开时，理性分析她的行为，也不见得是错的。换位思考下，如果你在遭遇痛失父母，要扛起一个家的时候，即使你是公主也不得不绞尽脑汁为每一个铜板努力了吧。爱情什么的只能是浮云。还有点儿心疼她，虽说一切的离别都是她造成的，被理解为报复，但我宁可认为她是出于对妹妹的爱，才做出看似残忍的决定。

  当你撒了第一个谎就要用更多的谎言来弥补。也许最开始只是一时意气，或者认为还不到说破的时候，而时间推移，跨过三十几年，就成了习惯，再来说明就更难开口了。她对爱丽丝表现的刻薄更像是恨铁不成钢，也是对自己的惩罚。如果她真如旁人所说的自私，霸道，任性，怎么会陪着重病的爱丽丝几十年？她并没有追求自己的幸福啊。她背负的责任有谁了分担呢？全书最悲哀的那个也许是她吧，我相信她做的一切的初衷是为了保护妹妹爱丽丝。只可惜即使以爱的名义欺骗，也永远只会是误解。

  当娜塔莉死后，管家塞西问爱丽斯恨不恨她时，爱丽丝知道内心深处是爱着她的。零散的童年回忆片段拼凑成完整的人生，我只看到姐妹情深。真正经历痛苦的时候，拯救她们的是亲情，是不放弃的血脉联结，而不是爱情。

  书中的暗线，鸟儿，自由的象征。鸟儿飞翔再久也回因重力落地，短暂的离开大地，最终还是要归于泥土。书中人没有一个可以无羁绊的生活，被感情困扰的何止姐妹俩，忘不了亡妻的芬奇教授，守候几十年的退伍兵菲尼亚斯，总是被有夫之妇吸引的斯蒂文。也许只有死去的人才真正解脱。