1840Indian rebirth

Not surprisingly, Kelvin decided to participate in this project that he was already interested in, and Ma Shao immediately appointed him as the chief technology officer of General Electric.

"Chief Technology Officer?" This was obviously the first time Kelvin had heard of the position.

Of course, companies these days do not have the term chief technology officer. In fact, it was not until the late twentieth century that terms such as chief executive officer and chief technology officer began to emerge in the United States.

Ma Shao nodded: "Yes, as you can tell from the name, the chief technology officer is the highest person in charge of technology in the company."

Kelvin: "Sounds interesting...but I don't think I've ever heard of this position at any other company."

"Of course, this may be my first initiative." Mashao smiled, "I hope that General Electric will become the world's leading high-tech company, and it should have many fashionable things."

"Okay, so as GE's chief technology officer, how many people do I have?" Kelvin asked.

"Zero...I haven't recruited many people, especially technical staff." Mashao said, "But it doesn't matter for the time being. We just need to get the cables, and then rent a ship to throw the cables to the English Channel, and we can do it forever.

Recorded in history—the builder of the world’s first transoceanic cable.”

Kelvin smiled: "You have already been recorded in history forever."

“I think, in addition to communication technology, our cables should have these characteristics. First, it must be resistant enough to sea water, so we need to cover it with multiple layers of gutta-percha... Then it should be relatively heavy, after all, we can’t dive into the bottom of the sea.

Laying..."

The early methods of laying submarine cables were extremely crude. Due to serious lack of diving skills, people basically could only throw the cables into the water and let them sink to the bottom.

"One more thing, we have to mark the cables with 'communication cables, salvage and destruction strictly prohibited', otherwise it would be terrible if a fisherman fishes them out and sells them for scrap." Ma Shao added that this kind of thing has indeed happened in history.

Kelvin: "Those fishermen may not be literate."

Ma Shao: "Indeed, we have to send people to inform nearby residents... We will promote 'protection of cables' to become a social consensus and even a law in various places in the future."

In the following period, the two conducted some experiments, finally determined the design of the submarine cable, and produced a sample as a reference for workers' production.

They don't need to pay attention to this matter until the production of forty kilometers of cable is completed.

Northeastern UK mainland.

The capital of Scotland, Edinburgh.

The famous University of Edinburgh is located on the seaside here. It is the highest institution of higher learning in Scotland and one of the seven classical universities. It was founded during the Renaissance and has been passed down to this day.

In universities, high-spirited young students can be seen everywhere, and wise elders with white hair can also be encountered from time to time.

Of course there are exceptions. For example, at this moment, in a remote and quiet corner of the University of Edinburgh, a handsome young man is immersed in writing. He seems to be the youngest person in the school. Logically speaking, at his age

It should be in middle school.

After a while, a middle-aged man came over with a smile: "James, are you writing poetry? Or are you studying optics?"

"No, Teacher Forbes, I'm writing a letter." The young man hesitated.

"To whom?"

"Mr. Mashao... is the Indian scientist who gave a lecture at Cambridge University not long ago. I remember that you, teacher, also attended that lecture."

"Yes." Teacher Forbes asked, "Why did you write to him?"

The young man was a little shy and subconsciously covered up the content of the letter: "I heard that many people wrote to him, and this Indian scientist also wrote some replies... I was very impressed by the second law of thermodynamics he taught.

I'm interested, but I have some doubts, so I want to write to him and ask him for advice. Maybe he will reply."

Teacher Forbes nodded: "But you'd better not get your hopes up. I know several teachers who have also written to him, but they haven't received a reply so far. This Indian scientist is a famous person, and His Majesty the King personally received him.

, I think he must be very busy."

"I know." said the boy named James, "but no one seems to be able to answer my questions."

"Can you tell me something?" Teacher Forbes asked.

The young man pondered: "Well... I imagined a scenario where there is a magical tiny creature that lives in the middle of a sealed space, and there is a switch here that allows a single particle to pass through. When a fast moving particle

When the particles come near the switch, the creature opens the switch to allow passage, but not vice versa, so that the hot particles and cold particles are concentrated on one side of the space respectively... Of course, I know this should be impossible, but I want to

Know why. Existing theories seem difficult to explain."

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London a few days later.

As usual, Ma Shao received many letters, most of which were academic-related and came from the UK, and some came from Europe. There were more and more letters from Europe, which obviously showed that his influence was spreading outwards.

Of course, there are also many non-academic letters, such as asking him, a barbarian, to get out of the British Empire.

For these letters, Ma Shao asked his subordinates to sift through them and throw away those that were irrelevant or offensive. Then he took some time to sort through the remaining letters like a Chinese teacher correcting essays.

Kelvin sometimes came to help. At this time, he was sitting next to the horse whistle, crossing his legs and reading the letters in his hand.

Compared with Ma Shao, he reads letters much more leisurely. Even if they are inappropriate letters, he will read them out of curiosity or to watch the excitement.

"Ma Shao, I think this letter is quite interesting. You can take a look at it." Kelvin finished reading the letter in his hand, glanced at the signature, and then handed it to Ma Shao. "It looks like it was written by a college student in Edinburgh.

University."

Ma Shao didn't take it seriously at first. After all, he had received too many letters during this period, not to mention such student admirers.

However, not long after receiving the letter, he was immediately attracted by the hypothesis described in it, and his eyebrows suddenly perked up.

"It's quite interesting. A magical creature arranges the distribution of random thermal motion particles, thereby breaking the second law of thermodynamics... It can be seen that this student has some fantastic ideas." Kelvin noticed his expression.

, smiled, "But your expression seems a bit exaggerated."

Ma Shao said: "My intuition tells me that this seemingly naive assumption is not that simple."

Before he finished speaking, he moved his eyes to the signature of the letter, and not surprisingly saw a name:

James Clerk Maxwell.

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ps:

I wish you all a happy Spring Festival and a happy family.

Also, that, it's a bit shameful to say... Due to the long-term interruption of updates, and the fact that the specific time in the book was previously blurred, I forgot which month of 1848 the protagonist is in now -.-

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