第303页 经世致用

不只是句子成分，译者连整句话甚至整段话也能删掉。

这个点子的确很聪明；威尔斯的矿工就是利用这种设备吸出矿坑内的积水。
【Newcomen's "fire-engine," as some called it,】 was a clever device; miners in Wales had been using 【its up-and-down motion】 to pump water out of their coal pits.

虽然对音乐一窍不通，他先花了几个礼拜努力钻研管风琴的设计原理和内部构造，挑选适合的材料，绘图设计，独立制成这台管风琴。
Watt, who knew nothing about music, mastered the subject over a few weeks, learned everything he could about organs, chose the necessary materials, lad out the design, and built the organ himself. 【These sorts of projects happily absorbed all his attention.】

蒸汽机是英格兰佬纽考门和赛佛瑞（Thomas Savery）两人的创见。瓦特的功劳是大幅改良并拓展蒸汽机的应用。他在一七八一年提出分隔式凝结装置，让机器得以持续运转，创造了工业革命的发动机。
Two Englishmen, Newcomen and Thomas Savery, did that. 【What Watt did was typically Scottish: he perfected something created by someone else, and gave it a higher and wider application than its original inventor had imagined.】 Watt applied to the steam engine the idea of separate condensation, which allow it to generate a constant motion, which, in 1781, 【Watt turned into a rotary motion.】

将原本只是汲水帮浦的蒸汽机提升为能源供应器，从炼铁厂、陶瓷高炉到格拉斯哥的港湾疏浚，各种产业无所不包。
They turned the steam engine from primarily a water pump into a way to supply power for every conceivable industry, from 【John Wilkinson's】 ironworks and 【Josiah Wedgewood's（此处应为Wedgwood，疑为作者笔误）】 pottery kilns to 【feeding the Birmingham Canal and】 dredging Glasgow's port.


最神奇的是，在“发挥隐藏在自然界的力量，将大为增进人类的福祉”这句话之后，有整整一个自然段被删掉了。
"Nature has its weak side," Watt liked to say, "if only we can find it." Finding that weakness was the job of science. Exploiting the opening that science provided was the job of the engineer - and his business sidekick, the entrepreneur.


另外这一节还有很严重的翻译错误，如
当波顿领着鲍斯伟到位于伯明罕苏荷区的厂区参观，鲍氏不禁赞叹：“就本人所见，此处展现了世人共同追逐的目标：权力！”
【That became clear when】 James Boswell visited their Soho works outside Birmingham, and Boulton showed him around, uttering the 【famous】 phrase: "I sell here, sir, what all the world desires to have: power."
译者把sell看成了see，顺带把这句名言的主人从Boulton变成了Boswell……

此外就不提“炼铁厂厂长（ironmaster）”被译成“铁匠”这种小错误了，太多……