第三部分:阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分) Machines in the home have a short history. Sewing machines, washing machines and tumble dries are common enough today, but a hundred years ago few people could even imagine such things. However, inventors
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12.Early one morning.more than a hundred years ago.an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleep.He had been working all night on the design of a sewing machine but he had run into a very difficult problem:It seemed impossible to get the t
sewing machineLockstitch sewing machine invented by Elias Howe, c. 1846. 2 of 2 Howe, EliasElias Howe, wood engraving inHarper's Weekly, v. 11, 1867. Interested inmachinerysince childhood, Howe learned the machinist trade and worked in a cotton machinery factory in Lowell, Mass., and later...
Industrial Revolution, in modern history, the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. These technological changes introduced novel ways of working and living and fundamentally transformed society. This process began in Britain in ...