1840Indian rebirth

Registering patents, recruiting troops, organizing production... General Dynamics' operations are gradually getting on the right track.

Various inventions of Mashao have also become reality one after another.

The most important inventions, such as the new sewing machine, the James coupler, and the phonograph, aroused enthusiastic responses in Britain as soon as they were launched.

What people are most concerned about is undoubtedly the phonograph. Since the technology is not yet mature, this thing has almost no practical value, but the magical properties of preserving sound make everyone curious about it, making it a representative of "high technology".

Ordinary people will not buy it, but they will be attracted by it at various exhibitions and activities.

Some rich people who are not short of money are willing to buy this expensive but useless phonograph out of the need for collection, gift giving or show-off, which has contributed to General Dynamics considerable profits.

So in fact, the gramophone became a luxury product, which seems a bit dark humor for General Motors, which is based on technology.

But making money is not shabby.

Not only that, General Dynamics also followed suit and launched a batch of limited edition phonographs with luxurious packaging.

For the horse whistle, the greatest value of this thing at present is to please Queen Victoria.

However, no one doubts the practical value of the phonograph in the future, and perfecting the phonograph is also one of General Dynamics' important plans.

James' coupler caused the smallest response, but it became popular the fastest. Anyone could see its significance to trains, so orders continued to flow.

The new sewing machine is a typical representative of controversial inventions.

From a technological and production perspective, this invention was naturally valuable, but from a social perspective, it caused quite a bit of chaos.

Efficient sewing machines caused many tailors to lose their jobs.

Some workers hated it and even tried to destroy it. These workers had a special name: Luddites.

This has brought some trouble to Ma Shao, such as the title of "harmful inventor".

To some extent, this is a manifestation of the British government's failure to do its job.

An excellent government should alleviate the social pain caused by scientific and technological progress, help displaced workers transform, and allow them to rejoin and adapt to new social production.

Of course, these are easy to say, but extremely difficult to do.

The US imperialism, China and other countries in the 21st century have not been able to alleviate this pain well, let alone the British leadership in the 19th century.

Today's Britain, a country where the monarch still holds huge power, does not even have this awareness, no matter how high or low. A person from the 21st century living here can even detect with the naked eye the ignorance of the country's will, which is like turbidity.

The sky of this huge empire is shrouded like a smog.

The horse whistle has neither the ability nor the will to help the British government perform such an arduous duty.

So of course he chose the law and sent these guys who destroyed private property to trial. Those who deserved compensation were compensated and those who deserved punishment were punished.

The second industrial revolution has just begun, and there will be many more such things in the future.

But history has proven countless times that in the face of the torrent of the Industrial Revolution, any obstruction by anyone seems ridiculous, whether he is a king, a capitalist, a worker, or a farmer... Every self-righteous head will eventually be ruthlessly crushed by the spiraling gears.

Crush.

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University of Cambridge.

The horse whistle was following Prince Albert, the president of Cambridge University, and the two were walking and talking to each other.

"Weather forecast?" Prince Albert looked at the horse whistle in surprise, "You mean, you invented a machine that can predict the weather?"

"No, how is this possible?" Ma Shao quickly explained, "I mean, using the telegraph system, people can quickly exchange weather information from various places to make forecasts for upcoming weather changes."

"For example, if a rain cloud appears in Cambridge and moves south, then through telegraph, we can notify the people there before the rain cloud reaches London and let them prepare in advance."

This kind of operation actually existed a few years ago, but it was mainly done by some businessmen.

For example, grain speculators often use telegraphs to convey weather information to seize business opportunities.

Albert listened and praised: "I didn't expect the telegraph to have such a use."

Ma Shao thought for a moment and then said: "In addition, it is not that there are no prediction machines at all. In fact, I have conceived a machine that can predict tides, and it is being researched by Babbage."

"Babbage?" Prince Albert smiled, "Then you have to suffer. But he is indeed a very powerful guy. I have to admit that he has a share of credit for the development of mathematics in Cambridge in recent years.

"

Ma Shao: "I will restrain him."

"I believe you." Prince Albert nodded, "The weather forecast is a good idea. I will introduce you to General Robert Fitzroy. He is a well-informed meteorological expert. You can cooperate with him.

Establish a department specifically responsible for weather, and the name of the department can be called the Meteorological Office."

The two talked for a while.

At this time, Ma Shao proposed: "Dear Prince, I have a request, or this is my original intention of coming to England... I selected some young students from Apache, and they all have received certain education in mathematics and physics.

, I hope they can further their studies at a British university and have found a secondary school for them for adaptive learning."

Prince Albert: "Aren't you yourself an excellent teacher and a most eminent scientist?"

Ma Shao: "The field of my research is too theoretical. For the development of Apache, there is an even greater shortage of engineering talents. As the world center of science and technology, Britain is the world's center. I think there is no place where you can get more advanced knowledge than here."

Engineering knowledge."

Prince Albert asked again: "How many students do you have?"

"Currently there are thirty students, and I plan to send some students to the UK every year," Ma Shao said.

Prince Albert thought for a while: "Cambridge University can accept your students, but I also have a condition."

He looked at Ma Shao: "You want to be a professor at Cambridge University."

Ma Shao was stunned for a moment, then said: "Of course, I also yearn for an academic palace like Cambridge... But you also know that I bear the expectations of my tribe, and I need to handle many things in the tribe. I am afraid that I will not have time to give lectures in Cambridge.

."

Albert smiled: "I won't let you teach students like a real professor. You only need to come to Cambridge regularly to give academic reports and give a few lectures to students by the way. Come once every three years.

Isn’t this too much to ask?”