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.

“我们的第一台发动机迫使我们发明并制造出一种合适的示功器来测量它——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.

他用摩擦制动器获得了所需的转速和负载，还配了调速器；但要等示功器来加以验证。

We were at the machine works, Goerck Street.

我们当时在戈尔克街的机械厂。

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!

我把它捡起来，它解决了发动机的加油难题——我也不用像个流浪戏子那样徒步走到劳伦斯去了！

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

偏心轮带上装着一个圆形玻璃油杯，底座是黄铜的，拧在偏心轮带上。

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

我请他用黄铜板做一个油杯，焊在我手头的那个底座上。