Audiobook Dictation: “Our first engine compelled the inventing…”

"Our first engine compelled the inventing and making of a suitable engine indicator to indicate it--the Tabor.

「我們的第一台發動機迫使我們發明並製造出一種合適的示功器來測量它——那就是泰伯示功器。

He obtained the desired speed and load with a friction brake; also regulator of speed; but waited for an indicator to verify it.

他用摩擦制動器獲得了所需的轉速和負載，還配了調速器；但要等示功器來加以驗證。

We were at the machine works, Goerck Street.

我們當時在戈爾克街的機械廠。

It had been stepped on and flattened.

它被人踩扁了。

I took it up, and it had solved the engine-oiling problem--and my walk to Lawrence like a tramp actor's was off!

我把它撿起來，它解決了發動機的加油難題——我也不用像個流浪戲子那樣徒步走到勞倫斯去了！

The eccentric strap had a round glass oil-cup with a brass base that screwed into the strap.

偏心輪帶上裝著一個圓形玻璃油杯，底座是黃銅的，擰在偏心輪帶上。

I requested him to make a sheet-brass oil-cup and solder it to the base I had.

我請他用黃銅板做一個油杯，焊在我手頭的那個底座上。