Comprehensive Martial Arts: Start Making Peacock Feathers

Chapter 59 The Steam Engine

"Thank you Young Master."

Yue Feng couldn't wait to open the "Forged Soldier Book", and was amazed while watching: "I didn't expect the temperature to be controlled like this, why didn't I think of it? Tsk tsk, the fusion of Star Mark Gold and Jiuyou Xuantie can produce such a change, it's amazing. now...

Qiu Fengtong was upset when he heard it, and interrupted quickly: "Okay, let's go back and look at it, and also, I have given you the forging book, but don't indulge in it, the casting of the Ice Soul Sword is the most important thing, If something goes wrong..."

Yue Feng immediately said: "If there is an accident, I will raise my head to see you.

Qiu Fengtong said angrily, "What do I want your head for?"

"Hahaha……"

The four of them laughed.

After sending the three away, Qiu Fengtong also came to the watch workshop.

Of course, the current watch workshop has not yet started, Qiu Ling is training with several young apprentices, and is demonstrating the disassembly and assembly of the watch on the spot to understand the internal parts.

"Master Young, you are here.

Qiu Fengtong saw Qiu Fengtong from afar, and hurriedly said hello.

"Um."

Qiu Fengtong was also polite and asked directly, "Brother Ling, have you done everything I asked you to do?"

"It's all done."

Qiu Ling pulled a few boxes, and after opening them, they were full of large and small parts.

But Qiu Ling obviously didn't understand the use of this thing, and asked: "Master Young, I don't understand, what's the use of this pile of parts? It's not like a watch production line.

Qiu Fengtong said: "You will find out later, I will assemble it first, and you will help."

"Yes."

After sending the apprentices to fiddle with the clocks, Qiu Ling began to help Qiu Fengtong assemble the machine.

The machine is not big, the lowest one is only the height of a table, and the tallest one is only a little taller than a person, but the length is very long, and it is a full tens of meters.

This is because there are a lot of machines, there are nine of them. Except for the first and highest one, which is a sealed boiler that cannot be understood, the other machines are similar in appearance. What is Fengtong doing?

For the next two days, Qiu Fengtong stayed here all the time. With the help of Qiu Ling and others, he finally succeeded in assembling the machine-mainly because the accuracy of many parts was not up to standard, and Qiu Fengtong used too many adjustment parts. time.

"Bring the materials here."

Looking at the machine in front of him, Qiu Fengtong was a little excited. If it can be done, then he can say that he has created a new era.

"Yes.

Qiuling brought the materials, that is, a plate of copper wire with the thickness of chopsticks, which were prepared in advance.

"Buzz! 35

I came to the bottom of the first boiler and ignited the coal below. After more than ten minutes, as the temperature increased, the boiler method made a humming sound, and then I saw the winch on the boiler slowly rotate, driving the All other machines are up and running.

At this time, Qiu Fengtong picked up the copper wire and put it on the feeding port. Immediately, he saw the copper wire protruding from the other end, but it was obviously smaller. After passing through the sink, the copper wire was fed into the second A machine feeding port, and when it comes out again, it becomes smaller, then the third, the fourth... Until the copper wire comes out of the last machine, it has become a copper wire only as thin as a hair. silk.

That's right, the machine Qiu Fengtong made is a wire drawing machine.

This is a typical set of water-tank wire drawing machines. Each wire drawing machine has five sets of rollers, eight of which are forty sets of rollers. The copper wire with the thickness of the original chopstick head becomes thinner and thinner, and finally reaches a copper wire with a thickness of only one centimeter (about 0.33 mm).

And the first boiler-like machine is actually the power source of the whole set of equipment - steam engine, (bgbd) So, this is actually a steam wire drawing machine.

Seeing this, some people will ask, how can a steam engine be built without a rubber seal?

In fact, everyone underestimated the wisdom of the ancients. The first steam engine did not have rubber, and Watt did not use rubber when he improved the steam engine. The steam engine appeared in the 18th century, but the use of rubber can be traced back to the 19th century.

Rubber is not a necessity for steam engines, and even many steam equipment nowadays do not use rubber for seals. In fact, in addition to rubber, there are many sealing technologies in mechanics. Qiu Fengtong uses piston seals, which is not a problem at all.

"It moved by itself."

This self-running steam engine immediately attracted everyone's attention. They had never seen such a miraculous machine - of course, this is not to say that there are no self-running machines in this era, not to mention specialized institutions such as Gong Loser and Mohist. In other words, the waterwheel on the edge of the farmland is also an automatic machine.

But these machines are either low-power, single-function, or expensive to vomit blood, and are not suitable for popularization at all.

And what is the production cost of Qiu Fengtong's machine?

This matter was handled by Qiu Ling himself, so he couldn't understand the cost of this set of machinery. The most precise one is the steam engine, and the cost will not exceed 800 taels. Machine, a complete set of equipment, the total cost did not exceed 2,000 taels of silver.

Although this is still a huge sum of money for many people, it is already an outrageous low price for many forces, and there are not too many people who can come up with this money.

After all the excitement was over, Qiu Ling asked himself the last question: "But I still don't understand, Young Master, you put so much effort into making copper wire? Are we going to sell copper wire? It won't make any money, right?" 5

"Who said they wanted to sell copper wire?"

Qiu Fengtong rolled his eyes and saw how much money can be made selling copper wire: "Can't we sell gold wire... ahhh, I'll make you crooked, anyway, I'm of great use, just watch it. 66

Of course, it is not impossible to sell gold wire. You must know that many jewelry are decorated with gold wire, and the ancient method of making gold wire is only the drawing board, which is extremely inefficient and has greater loss, which is completely worth the loss.

If my high-yield and low-cost gold wire enters the market, it will definitely have a severe impact on the entire market. I don't know how many craftsmen will lose their jobs... I can't imagine that scene, it's too miserable, Master Qiu Good-hearted, but can't take other people's jobs