英語翻譯
By the 1880s,however,industrialists were beginning to
recognize that the scaling up of consultants’ laboratory preparations and syntheses was a distinctly different activity form laboratory investigation.They began to refer to this scaling problem and its solution as “chemical engineering”-possibly because the mechanical engineers who had already been introduced into works to maintain the steam engines and pumps in an industry of growing complexity were the very men who seemed best able t o understand the processes involved.