1855 United States Tycoon

The experiment on that day was quite successful. The entire system was united, and liquid ammonia was successfully produced in the first operation. Although the output is quite limited, it is actually synthetic ammonia made from nitrogen in the atmosphere. The synthetic ammonia still leaked out a lot, and the smell made the entire island look like a big toilet. Fortunately, Scrooge had been prepared for a long time, everyone put on a gas mask-ammonia not only irritated the nose, but also irritated the eyes. But before putting on the gas mask, Mr. Li Bixi took a long, deep breath through his nose, and then said to Scrooge who was wearing the mask, "Yes, that's it!" Then he smiled and brought it on. Face mask...

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In the evening, a series of novels was playing on the radio, which was a very attractive program. Ordinary people in this era, after a busy day, return home, have dinner, and then basically there is no more entertainment. The wealthy can also go to the Broadway box to watch the drama, but ordinary people, after dark, there is really no entertainment except for the creation of people.

However, this situation gradually changed after the advent of wireless radio. At first, these things were only popular among wealthy people or those who were relatively rich, and then gradually became popular among people with a little money. Finally, as the power grid gradually entered the life zone of ordinary people, ordinary people’s homes. And gradually began to have a radio.

But even the simplest radio is not easy for an ordinary worker's family. Therefore, in the residential areas of some ordinary workers' families, if any house has a radio, um, at night, nearby workers will often crowd into their homes to listen to the programs on the radio. Among these programs, the novel series is almost the most popular program among these people.

Now a group of people are gathered around Tom's radio, listening to the story inside.

"They walked up five or six steps again, and then Dantes felt that they had lifted him up, one raised his head and the other raised his foot, swinging him around." One! "The two gravediggers shouted together, "Two! Three, let's go! "Then Dantes felt like he was thrown into the air, like a wounded bird passing through the air layer, and then fell straight down, falling down at a speed that almost made his blood clot. There was a heavy object dragging him. He speeded up his descent speed, but he still felt that the falling time seemed to last for a hundred years. Finally, with a terrible loud noise, he fell into the cold water, when he fell into the water. At that time, he couldn't help letting out a sharp scream, but that scream was immediately drowned out in the waves.

Dantes was thrown into the sea, a 36-pound iron ball tied to his foot, dragging him to the bottom of the sea. The sea is the cemetery of Chateau d’If..."

This is a fragment from "The Count of Monte Cristo". Unlike the tried-and-tested listeners or readers of later generations, they are not very familiar with this kind of bridge, so they still worry about the protagonists who fall off the cliff. In contrast, if this kind of bridge is read and seen by later generations, probably the first thought that will come up will never be whether it will drown or not, but this fall off the cliff, in the end It’s not bad to be able to get the Beiming Divine Art plus Lingbo Microsteps, or the "Nine Suns True Scripture", or the "Golden Snake Sword Technique" plus a sword inserted in a stone is not bad. Well, when a brave boy pulls it out After the sword stuck in the rock, his destiny also changed. When my hand is clinging...slowly, slowly, people in that era would not be able to make up such a large number of gadgets, let alone It would be unscrupulous to just turn the knight king with a big beard into a cute girl.

Although "The Count of Monte Cristo" has been written for some years, most of the old American workers have not read this book. The kind of England that all people can proficiently recite Shakespeare probably only exists in some GZ. In the plane of his head, so when I heard this, everyone was still very worried about the fate of Edmond Dantes, but at this critical moment, um, the program suddenly stopped.

"Dear listeners, we are temporarily interrupting a piece of news. Please don't go away. After the news, you will come back immediately."

"Damn it, interrupt the news at this time!" Tom grumbled and complained.

"That's it, it's not news or advertising!" More people echoed.

However, the radio station cannot hear such complaints. Of course, even if they hear it, they will not pay attention to it. If they do not insert advertisements, how can they make money? Therefore, the broadcast started to broadcast the news decisively:

“Earlier today, the University of Cleveland Laboratory completed the world’s first chemical synthesis of ammonia experiment. The success of this experiment is of great significance to the world. Now we are fortunate to have invited Professor Li Bixi, who is in charge of this experiment, and here Dr. Kekule, who played a key role in this experiment, invite them to tell us the great significance of this experiment..."

If it is not for listening to the unfinished story, most workers have no interest in "synthetic ammonia" or something. It's just that the worries about the fate of Dantes left them there to listen to two Germans who should not be proficient in English speaking about the meaning of synthetic ammonia. Many people were impatient to hear it.

But for some other listeners, this is not the case. Through the radio waves, the news spread quickly throughout the world. The first reaction is the scientific community, especially the chemical community. For many years, even since the significance of nitrogen in the soil for plant growth has been confirmed for nearly a hundred years, the fixation of nitrogen by chemical means has always been the dream of chemists. In the hearts of the majority of chemists, this dream can almost match the status of this dream. Their senior-alchemists have a similar status to the dream of making gold. So as soon as such news came out, it immediately caused a sensation in the entire United States and even the European scientific community. Even in far away Petersburg, this news has also become the focus of academic attention.

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Professor Qi Ning of the Petersburg School of Medicine and Surgery walked into the laboratory as usual. As usual, he hung his own coat on the wall, then turned around, but saw the students all look excited. Staring at him.

"Well, Alyosha, what's the matter? I have something on my face?" Qi Ning asked suspiciously.

"Professor, don't you know? Didn't you read today's newspaper?" Alyosha replied.

"What newspaper, what news is out?"

"Professor, the United States and Prussian synthetic ammonia experiment was successful!" Another student named Xie Miao replied.

"Where is the newspaper?" Qi Ning asked.

"Here, here!" Alyosha quickly took out a newspaper, opened it and handed it to Jining. Qi Ning lowered her head and saw this report:

"Yesterday afternoon, the University of Cleveland University, United States Laboratory announced that with the funding of Macdonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company, their research project in cooperation with many universities in Prussia-the chemical synthesis of ammonia experiment, has achieved complete success and has already With the conditions for industrialized production, this technology may soon be put into chemical production...Professor Li Bixi and Dr. Kekule are concerned about..."

"Teacher, if you chose to stay in Europe that year, maybe you were among these people..." Xie Miao said. Qi Ning is Li Bixi’s proud pupil. After studying in Li Bixi’s laboratory for many years, Li Bixi has been full of praise for Jining’s talent and hard work. However, in the end, Jining returned to the relatively closed and backward Russia and brought Europe’s latest news about The research methods of organic chemistry were brought back to Russia.

"Haha, that's not necessarily true. Didn't you notice that, in this report, almost no details of the experiment are mentioned at all?" Qi Ning said, "Look, there are only some mentioned here that we all have known for a long time. The thing that uses hydrogen and nitrogen, is converted with the help of high pressure and high temperature and catalyst. These are not much different from the assumptions we have mentioned before. The question is how many degrees Celsius is the high temperature, how many atmospheres the high pressure is, and the process There is almost no mention of processes and catalysts. Do you know why this is?"

"Of course it is for confidentiality. Teacher, when you mentioned synthetic ammonia before, this kind of technology is extremely important for agriculture. This also means that there will be very big economic benefits in the future. United States and Prussians will definitely do their best. Confidential. Teacher, do you mean that they will not invite you to join because they are worried about your leak?" Alyosha asked.

"Perhaps. But in any case, at least they confirmed that ammonia can be synthesized from this direction." Jining replied.

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The Royal Academy also responded to this news. They almost immediately sent invitations to the University of Cleveland and Prussian universities to invite a series of chemists, including Scrooge, to the UK for academic exchanges-as long as Even if people are not intimidated when they arrive in the UK, they can always get something useful from them through temptation. In addition, since the significance of synthetic ammonia is so far-reaching, but unemployment proves that the method of high temperature and high pressure plus catalyst is feasible, then Britain, which is the richest and most advanced in science and technology, will naturally follow up. Therefore, under the leadership of the British government, with the University of Cambridge and St. Helens Pharmaceutical Factory, the relevant research was started. What, you said patents? In this kind of place related to national security, it doesn't matter what patents are not patents!

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"This is the big project that Scrooge McDonald mentioned." After listening to the relevant personnel's analysis of the market significance of synthetic ammonia technology, Joshua thought silently in his heart, "On the one hand, this thing It may double the agricultural output. On the other hand, it will also greatly reduce the cost of gunpowder and explosives. In this way, the money of this technology is really great. Although Shi Gaozhi prepared for this. It’s been a long time, I don’t think there is a shortage of money now, but doesn’t he need an agent to help him sell these things in Europe? Well, I have to find time, I have to meet this genius again."

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