Chapter 191 Schneider Puzzle
Boom! ! ! !
Hoo ho ho! ! ! ! !
The explosion was accompanied by the rising fire, and the entire weapons experiment center was like purgatory.
"Quick! Quick! Put out the fire! The professor is still inside!" The SS commanded the fire brigade to continuously pour water on the burning building.
It's too late, someone is obviously setting fire here. The fire was driven by the north wind and fueled by gasoline and explosives! He quickly rushed to the top fourth floor.
Seeing that it was impossible to extinguish the fire in a short time, the officers at the scene had no choice but to adopt a risky plan. "Find something to put on the bottom, shout with a loudspeaker, and ask the people in the room to jump down."
The temporarily collected soft cushions and woven fabrics were piled underneath, and someone was holding a tin horn below and kept repeating Shout and ask the trapped people above to jump down.
At the height of the fourth floor, if there is a proper buffer, there is still a chance to save your life.
Someone rushed to the window and kept knocking on the window.
"Look! It's the professor!" The people downstairs recognized the shadow
"Move the mat! Hurry up!"
But when the soldiers rushed downstairs, I found that people on the fourth floor couldn't open the window no matter what.
"Asshole! The window is sealed! Climb up and help pry it open!" the leading lieutenant colonel downstairs shouted to the people around him.
Boom! ! ! ! ! !
Before the people below could react, another explosion occurred on the other side of the fourth floor. The huge shock wave forced the windows open one after another, and the glass and broken window frames fell to the floor.
In the raging fire, several flaming rod-shaped objects were thrown out and landed at the feet of the lieutenant colonel.
“Keep them!!!!” someone shouted hoarsely in the fire!
The second, third, fourth...things were thrown out one after another. Someone opened one of them and found that it turned out to be a incomplete design drawing.
But just when the seventh scroll was thrown, a big explosion occurred on the fourth floor.
boom! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Like being hit head-on by a battleship's main gun, the entire fourth floor became incomplete and everything was reduced to ashes.
Snow is falling.
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On November 12, 1941, the German Weapons Research Institute in Copenhagen was attacked by an arsonist by unknown persons. The entire building was burned to the ground. What was even more serious was the Asian new weapon named Schneider. Experts died in the fire.
On the same day, the German nuclear fission research team in Copenhagen was infiltrated by armed men. Danish professor Niels Bohr was rescued by the other party. Professor Heisenberg was safe because he was not in the laboratory that day.
When the mustachioed Führer found out about this, he was furious and threw his daily water glass in front of Himmler.
The most frustrated one was Air Marshal Göring. The weapons expert he had just recruited died in an Allied assassination before he could play a role, which made him spread his anger on others.
"Asshole!!! Did I arrange a group of donkeys to protect the laboratory?"
"These stupid guys, I should throw you to the Arctic Circle to dig like the Russians did Potato! "
"The head of state just paid attention to the development of new weapons, and all the results were burned in a fire. The person in charge is also dead. What do you want me to show to the head of state?"
After the marshal finished losing his temper and calmed down a little, someone on the side said tremblingly, "Sir, not everything we have has been burned."
"What do you mean?" Goering turned around. "The professor smashed the glass just before he died and protected his research results with his life." Jonathan Coleman took out several incomplete drawings and flattened them on the table.
The top one reads "Overall design drawing for super tank development"
"Saved?!" Marshal Göring was overjoyed.
"Well, strictly speaking, part of it should be preserved." Jonathan Coleman considered his words. "The professor threw out a total of seven volumes of drawings, including the general drawing and some structural drawings of key locations, but..."< br>
"But what? Don't hesitate." The marshal urged unhappily.
“However, the preserved drawings have traces of burning in many places, and many key parameters are missing. The professor has passed away, and these numbers cannot be restored.”
“In this way…” Ge Lin took two steps and made a decision: "The super tank plan remains unchanged. I will explain to the head of state that I have mobilized weapons experts from Berlin to tackle the missing data and plans. I believe that the collective wisdom of the German people can solve all problems."
Except when the head of state is here, Goering has always been there. It's all one word, and no one can disobey him.
So a new weapons team was established. Based on the manuscripts left by Professor Schneider during his lifetime, experts began to improve the tank design step by step.
It stands to reason that with the initial drawings, the design work is better than starting from scratch, but as the research and development work deepens, experts find that this is a very painful thing.
They are like trying to put together a box of half-lost jigsaw puzzles. Not only do they have to think about what to draw next, they also have to constantly explore the traces left by the previous designer.
“I would rather start all over again.” This is what a certain Porsche designer said at the time. Some engineers even began to question that a design was whimsical from the beginning and had no possibility of completion.
But later the engineers discovered that they were wrong, and very wrong.
Because every time they encounter a problem, the designers think of it from the beginning.
For example, regarding the speed issues involved in heavy tanks, when they were still considering how to increase engine power, the original designers had already proposed using a gasoline engine to provide energy to the generator through an indirect gearbox, using electric propulsion way to generate power. (This is how the mouse moved in history.)
This idea opened up the minds of the engineers. When they were looking forward to how the designers could improve the thrust-to-weight ratio below, everyone was embarrassed.
Because the lower part is missing...
The drawing with the design plan for the electric pusher has lost a large part due to the fire, and the content below is completely missing. The specific operation can only be left to the engineers. Use your imagination.
There are many more similar situations.
The rotation plan of the double turret, the four-section crawler track design, and the matching ratio of the engine and generator shafts are all issues that the designers have clearly considered in front of them, but the drawings without exception The positions of the upper solution were all damaged due to fire.
This incredible situation produced two effects
First, the engineers strengthened their confidence that the tank could indeed be completed. After all, the designers had thought of all the problems in advance.
Second, many people believe that God does not seem to want this monster from purgatory to appear in the world. Otherwise, why would data be missing as soon as it reaches a key node?
Therefore, this incomplete design was also called the "Schneider Puzzle" by later generations
(End of this chapter)