Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

After using an [Appraisal (N)] card to figure out what the previous parts were, Liang En quickly studied the information mentioned in the card.

Even Liang En, a professional archaeologist and cultural relic appraiser, couldn't possibly know everything. Fortunately, now is the information age, and it is much easier to look up information than in the past, so he quickly found information about this person on the Internet. All public information.

Pierre Jaquet-Droz was a master watchmaker from Switzerland in the 18th century. In addition to making clocks, he often made lifelike robots.

These robots were given as gifts to kings and nobles, or displayed in high society to help his company sell more clocks and robot birds.

In the 1770s, Pierre and his sons invented some of the world's oldest clockwork-driven robots.

They can write, draw, and play the piano. The three most famous of this batch of robots are called "Musician", "Drawer" and "Writer". They are all wonderful machines that can complete a series of tasks through preset gear sets.

Among them, the "Musician" is made of 2,500 parts. It looks like a female figure. It took nearly ten years to make and can play music for up to 45 seconds on a special organ.

What’s even more interesting is that during the performance, the robot doll’s chest will rise and fall with her breathing, her gaze will move with her fingers, and she will bow to express her gratitude after each performance.

The "Cartographer" is also driven by clockwork and gears and is made of more than 1,000 mechanical parts. The robot is about 46 centimeters tall and looks like a gentleman with silver-white hair, wearing 15th-century-style purple clothes.

The entire robot took more than 2,000 hours of work and was completed by 11 professional designers, sculptors, painters, carpenters, animators, micro-power engineers, jewelry makers, wigmakers, embroiderers and tailors. Finish.

After it is activated, it presses its left hand on the table, and gently waves the quill with its right hand. At the same time, its eyes and head will move along with the drawing of the pattern, drawing the figure on the moving drawing, and after finishing the drawing, it will raise its left hand.

As for the last "writer", there are more than 6,000 parts inside. The small parts are completely hidden in the body of the robot. The shape of the robot is imitated by a little boy.

What achieves this miracle is the cam technology. The cam follow-up infrastructure can make the robot boy's arm make various different movements according to different cams. This can not only control the boy's every stroke of writing, but also accurately control the strength of the stroke.

In some ways, this piece is cam technology's most extraordinary creation. Theoretically, this robot can write out all the words and punctuation marks, but the specific writing will be determined by the cam inside that is used to record information.

Therefore, this robot can be regarded as the earliest programming computer in human history, and the content of the cam set in Liang En's hand is used to record a piece of information.

Although limited by mechanical size, this robot can only write 40 letters at a time, but it is still enough to store some information.

"In other words, your thing is actually equivalent to a USB flash drive." After living for so long, Joan of Arc will also use some more modern metaphors.

"But how are we going to export it now? Should we go to the museum in Switzerland and ask them for help?"

For many people, communicating with the museum is very simple for Liang En and others. At least for scholars like Liang En, it is not difficult to get in touch with and use this robot.

"Going to Switzerland is definitely necessary. After all, if we find the key, we will definitely open a door." Liang En nodded and said, "But before that, we have to fix the cam first."

Considering the reason for going to Switzerland later, Liang En and the others did not go home after leaving Cambodia. Instead, they went directly to Bern, the capital of Switzerland.

We chose this city not far from the east coast of Neuchâtel as our base because it is very close to the city of Neuchâtel where the Robot Museum is located, less than 30km away.

So after repairing this thing, they can follow the road and bypass Lake Neuchâtel and go straight to the target location, which can save a lot of time and energy.

"I really admire that group of old nobles who can actually own real estate all over the world." Looking at the luxurious interior decoration of this 19th-century style building, Joan of Arc said subconsciously.

The room that Liang En and the others lived in was located in the top residential area of ​​Bern. It was temporarily lent to Liang En and the others by a member of the Golden Dawn without paying a penny.

The reason why the other party took the initiative to lend this house was because he hoped that Liang En and the others could take more pictures of this house in the next video.

"You are right. Those old nobles do own a lot of real estate around the world." Liang En nodded and said, "But their economic situation may not be as good as we imagined."

For example, this time the other party asked Liang En and the others to shoot a video so that they could promote themselves and sell it at a good price later.

Unlike Liang En and others who have sufficient liquidity, many nobles are very tight on funds, especially liquidity, so sometimes they have to sell some properties to make up for the lack of funds.

When selling, these people immediately choose acquaintances as targets because it looks better on their face.

Unfortunately, the market for acquaintances is only so big. In most cases, acquaintances cannot be found, so they can only sell them to the public. After this step, they naturally pay more attention to price.

The price of a real estate mainly comes from its location and the condition of the room itself. Of course, whether it is famous or not is also an important influencing factor, so I made a request to Liang En.

After all, Liang En is a scholar, and a very high-level scholar at that, so if he shoots videos here, it will match the quality of the real estate and also increase the price of the real estate.

The reason why he chose this room was because it was close to Mr. Dulis's jewelry store, so he could easily borrow the equipment from the jewelry store for the repair work of this thing.

Liang En's repair plan was a brand-new repair plan. He carefully removed 718 pieces of iron from the iron bars in order, and then used 3D scanning equipment to scan all these parts.

He then built a 3D model of the thing on his computer, then used a simple system he had made previously to fill in the parts that were missing due to wear and rust.

For these mechanical parts, it is somewhat difficult to remove the added parts, but it is even more difficult to fill in the missing parts.

So considering the need to use this system to unlock a secret, Liang En decided to re-create a cam system so that it could be used normally without worrying about problems with the already fragile cam system.

After all the work was completed, Liang En remade the entire cam system using copper sheets and copper rods based on the data displayed on the computer, and then reassembled them in the original order.