来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：资本主义：成功、危机与改革 第3集 第3集》
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that kind of profiting--that way of profiting from specialized expertise凭借专业化分工获得的效益 -
is foundational to market societies, foundational to their wealth.对市场及其财富来说都是基础 -
Now the actual fate of the pin machine is interesting,大头针制造机的兴衰也很有趣 -
and personal to my family.我们家原来就是搞这个的 -
It turns out that in 1831, a New York physician named John Ireland Howe1831年 纽约的约翰·爱尔兰·豪医生 -
began to tinker with the idea of making a machine开始研究制作一个机器 -
where wire went in one end金属丝从一头进去 -
and polished pins came out the other in their thousands.千万个抛光好的扣针就能从另一头出来 -
By 1851 he perfected what was called the Howe Pin Machine.1851年 他完善了豪氏针机 -
There's a room in the Smithsonian to this day史密斯森协会[联合国博物馆]有一间陈列室 -
where a Howe Pin Machine sits陈列了这种机器 -
and a movie of its operation goes on behind it.背后还在播放当时运作的影片