火车机车发明者乔治·史蒂芬孙原是一位普通的英国工人,1781年出生于一个煤矿工人家里。全家8口人,依靠父亲微薄的工资勉强糊口。刚满8岁的史蒂芬孙不得不自食其力,当上了放牛娃。14岁又随父亲去煤矿当学徒。直到17岁还是个文盲呢!在矿上,他看到蒸汽机能使机器转动,百思不得其解。后来,终于明白了:要弄清蒸汽机的构造原 The inventor of the train locomotive, George Stevenson, was an ordinary British worker and was born in a coal miners’ home in 1781. The family of eight people, relying on his father’s meager wages. Stephenson, who just turned 8 years old, had to live on his own and became a cowboy. At the age of 14, he went to the coal mine as an apprentice with his father. Until the age of 17, he was still illiterate! In the mine, he saw that the steam engine turned the machine and it was hard to understand. Later, finally understood: to understand the original structure of the steam engine