Lord of Industrialization

The eightieth birthday of the Archduke of Mainz has come to an end. On the surface, it looks lively. The owner celebrated his birthday. One of his granddaughters will marry the grandson of the Archduke of Bain next year. This is the prey captured by the reorganized army. It is the sum of Archduke Byrne and Duke Wesson.

Under the table, the upstream regional cooperation organization reached a preliminary agreement on the training of new troops. Duke Wesson promised to send troops to help defend the territories of Baron Wesson and others in the spring. The Grand Duke of Mainz secretly warned the Helvetic Federation envoy not to After causing trouble for Duke Wesson, the campaign ceased. Archduke Byrne purchased a large amount of grain and canned food at a fair price.

Frederick stayed a few more days, then said goodbye to Maria and returned to Weissenburg with his hot-air balloon.

The foreign troubles in the territory were resolved, the marriage was decided, and the domestic affairs only needed to grasp the general direction, and Frederick suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.

People want to get into trouble whenever they have free time, and he has already thought about putting out a tractor this winter.

Just after the Harvest Festival on November 11, Frederick summoned elite soldiers and generals to Benz's carriage workshop.

Benz is in his thirties. His family was already a well-known local carpenter when Frederick's great-grandfather came here. Later, during the era of Frederick's grandfather, he started producing carriages for the Wesson family.

After the bearing came out, Benz made a fortune by modifying carriages and producing new carriages. Later, with the investment of Frederick, he built a new factory. The two-horse steel-framed carriage developed last year became the standard equipment of the Wesson Army. Therefore, Received a medal after the Six-Day War.

That morning, Frederick looked around at everyone in the conference room. In addition to Benz, there were more than a dozen young people who had emerged in the field of machinery in recent years, such as Schmidt and Liebherr, as well as Becher's little daughter Katharina.

Everyone saw that the principal was going to do something new again, and everyone was gearing up to do something big. Only Katharina, who was appearing on such an occasion for the first time, was a little nervous.

She also discovered that among all the people present, she was the only one without a thermos cup in front of her. Then she further discovered that Benz's thermos cup had the words "Six-Day Defense War Commendation Conference" printed on it. Schmidt and many others' cups had the words "Celebration" printed on them. "The 100th Steam Engine Completed", while the Liebherr cup only had a hot air balloon and a date printed on it.

That day Becher mentioned that his youngest daughter wanted to take a teaching position at Weisenberg University, and Frederick agreed without even thinking about it. After asking about her research direction, he decisively let her join the tractor research team.

At the beginning of the meeting, Frederick said: "Today, we are going to study a machine powered by a steam engine that can replace mules and horses for plowing the land!"

“The design principle of the new agricultural machinery we want to develop can be summed up as ‘multi-riveted steam steel’.”

He raised a finger and continued: "The first requirement for machines is 'more'. In order to improve efficiency and develop by leaps and bounds, machines must be equipped with more rakes and more automatic machines than existing farming machines. The seeder must have as many functions as possible.”

Then he stretched out his second finger and said: "In order to reduce manufacturing costs and technical requirements, this machine uses rivets for connection, and screws are only used in a few places that require frequent maintenance."

Then he stretched out his third finger and saw that everyone else had finished taking notes before saying: "If the machine wants to achieve the first goal, it needs to use a steam engine. Start with a 20-horsepower steam engine, gradually increase the horsepower, and strive to achieve every two By three years it's crossed 20 to 30 horsepower, and finally it's 100 horsepower."

Finally, he stretched out his fourth finger and said: "Such a machine must be very expensive and will not only last for a few years, so in order to improve its strength and service life, the entire main structure of the vehicle is made of steel."

After he finished speaking, he opened the cup without any logo or pattern, took a slow sip of hot tea, and asked his secretary Vanessa to send a piece of information to everyone.

This document is a simplified and schematic diagram of the entire steam tractor and its various systems. He carefully drew it on beeswax paper with a stylus, and then printed it and bound it. It reminded him of the exam papers he used when he was in elementary school in the 1990s.

Everyone looked at it carefully, especially Katharina. She quickly saw from the catalog the part that she was responsible for improving the efficiency of the steam engine boiler heating magic array elements.

The description mentions a principle that improves the efficiency of using magic elements. It is not written here, but it is pointed out to find a certain book in the castle library. There is also a note from Frederick giving permission to borrow the book. .

Frederick waited quietly for them to finish reading the information, otherwise they would just talk empty words.

Taking this opportunity, he looked back at the problems encountered in the production and development of steam engines so far.

The biggest problem encountered by the steam engine was the lack of basic theory. Schmidt and others recorded a large amount of data, such as the changes in steam pressure and temperature in the cylinder, the energy loss of steam with different pressures and flow rates in pipes of different diameters, and the switching of steam valves. The situation is related to the pressure and flow rate of the steam, etc., but it is currently impossible to derive a theory from these data that can guide the design.

The reason why we encounter such problems is that the development of mathematical tools is seriously lagging behind and cannot provide help for research. Therefore, the Carnot cycle, which is most important for the study of steam engines, will not appear for a while.

According to the perspective of the triarchy of "science-technology-engineering", the current development of steam engines can only be regarded as a "I Xunsi" project, and there is still a long way to go before the corresponding scientific principles emerge.

To upgrade mathematical tools, the first step is to throw out calculus. He started preparing for this last year and planned to concentrate on writing a book on the history of mathematics next year and put calculus into it at the end.

It's just that although his grades in advanced mathematics were pretty good when he was in college in his previous life, it was a bit difficult to copy all the textbooks, so he could only try to remember them.

And even if he does it, it's hard to say how many people can learn it and master it proficiently, and how long the process will take. There are quite a few people who fail high school mathematics every year.

After about an hour, everyone read the information carefully, and Frederick asked: "What do you think?"

For most of the people here, especially the Ogilvy students, using machine power to drive a car is something that is expected.

When he was in Constantbul, All Might began to study the golem puppet horse, hoping to use it to replace the expensive war horse. After all, a war horse with one or two hundred gold coins could easily be killed and disabled in battle. The robot horse came back with four broken legs. Just replace it with a new one after sale.

It was just that the technology was just beginning at that time, and the robot horse was too slow and could only pull a cart. However, because the amount of magic crystals consumed per 100 kilometers converted into currency was much higher than the grass consumption per 100 kilometers of an ordinary draft horse, it could not be sold.

After the magic reciprocator appeared, many people used it to drive their cars, but the heat dissipation problem was not solved and it was not very easy to use.

Nowadays, steam engines are used as power, and the highlight is a large horsepower. Judging from the performance of recent steam engines, the feasibility of using it to drive vehicles is not low.

But judging from the data, there are still many problems that need to be solved, such as transmission, steering, clutches and brakes, etc., which can only be finalized after a lot of experiments.

Everyone has a preliminary understanding of tractors, and problems naturally arise. Next, it is time to solve these problems.