Chapter 132 The Door to the Micro World
After the knocking on the door ended, a "Please come in" came from inside.
Two female consultants pushed the door into Paul's office and found that the young count was playing with a strange thing.
He was so focused that he turned a blind eye to their entry and didn't even raise his head.
The strange thing played by the count is cylindrical and seems to be made of metal. It is fixed on a base on the table by two struts. The structure should be able to adjust the pitch angle like a cannon. The front end of the metal tube is getting thinner and thinner, facing a transparent glass piece.
Paul was putting his eyes on the back end of the metal tube, as if he was carefully observing what was in the tube.
"Count Grayman!"
Irene reminded him dissatisfiedly: "It is very impolite to ignore two ladies like this."
"Ah ...Just give me a moment, I'll be fine soon. Well...the microorganisms in the two worlds feel the same."
Paul said something that confused the two female consultants.
Soon he raised his head and said excitedly: "You two are just in time, come and see my new gadget - a microscope."
"What is this weird thing?"
“A thing that can magnify the thing on the glass piece in front hundreds of times. Through the microscope, you can see a microscopic world that you have never seen before.”
Paul paid a lot of money The lens master who arrived lived up to expectations and finally ground lenses suitable for manufacturing early microscopes.
At the beginning, because the ground mirror surface was relatively rough, the effect was not ideal. As the lens master continued to try to improve the technique, and a group of apprentices he brought out also participated in the experiment, the precision continued. After improving, I finally got the convex lens that Paul recognized more.
Fortunately, the glass manufacturing technology in this world is relatively mature, otherwise he would still have to worry about how to make high-quality glass.
After countless failed attempts, Paul and the opticians assembled a "microscope", but I don't know how it compares with the early microscope invented by Leeuwenhoek.
Irene came to the table and imitated Paul's example and put her eyes to the back end of the lens tube.
“Hey——”
Irene made a disgusting sound and quickly turned her head away.
Her almond-shaped eyes were round and she glared at Paul angrily, "Are you kidding me, Paul Grayman?"
In the end, she almost read Paul's name word for word, gritting her teeth. .
However, Paul looked at her with a wicked smile.
“What is it?” Ladi tugged on her friend’s sleeve. Although after getting along for such a long time, she knew that the earl was a generous man, but after all, he was a lord of one side, and her own It was a bit out of bounds for a colleague to speak to him in this tone.
“Look, he put some disgusting bugs in this cylinder to scare us.”
"Miss Dias" said angrily.
La Di came up and took a look, and she was also given a big jump.
I saw some tiny "bugs" inside. Although they were too tiny to see their specific shapes, they were constantly swimming and squirming, which showed that they were alive.
"Your Majesty, Earl?" She suppressed her discomfort and turned her questioning and slightly resentful eyes to Paul.
Paul immediately put on an aggrieved look, shrugged and said: "You are wronging me. I didn't deliberately find some bugs to scare you, and they are not in this metal cylinder. In, but here.”
Paul pointed to the glass slide facing the front of the microscope.
The two female consultants looked at it together. There was nothing on the glass except a trace of water.
"There is nothing up there!"
"Think about what I just said, you can see a 'microscopic world' that you have never seen before." "'Microscopic world'? You mean Their bodies are so small that we cannot see them with our eyes. We must use your 'microscope' to see them?"
"Miss Dias" asked aloud, the scholar's thirst for knowledge overriding the anger just now.
“That’s it, the microscope uses two convex lenses to refract light.”
“Convex lenses?”
“The telescope you used before has Equipped with a convex lens, the magnifying glass we used to burn ants when we were young is also a convex lens. "I didn't have that kind of vulgar and vicious hobby when I was a child."
"Ah...I'm sorry."
They looked at the microscope carefully. Indeed, in addition to a lens at the back, there was also a very small lens mounted on the cone-like front end.
Paul introduced: "The front lens is called the 'objective lens' because it faces the object being observed, and the rear lens is called the 'eyepiece' because it faces the human eye."< br>
La Di asked him: "How did you get these little bugs onto this glass piece?"
"Little bugs? I think it is more appropriate to call them 'microorganisms' - human beings Tiny creatures that are invisible to the naked eye. As for how to get them onto this piece of glass, I just dipped a little water on it and dripped it on. ”
Because most microorganisms, including bacteria, are transparent, it is not easy to observe them directly with a light microscope. They need to be stained to clearly identify them, but he is not yet able to prepare a gentian violet solution or acetic acid magenta solution. For such artificial dyes, fortunately, he could also use natural dyes such as litmus and hematoxylin. The alchemists recruited from the royal capital helped him solve this problem.
"That's it." The two female scholars nodded, and they took turns using the microscope to observe again.
“There are still many things in this world that we don’t know!”
“It is our duty to diligently explore these unknown mysteries.”
Both of us The scholars chatted quietly.
Suddenly, they realized something.
"You mean... this is a drop of water taken at random..." A look of horror appeared on La Di's usually steady face.
"This means... what we use to wash up on weekdays..." Erin's tongue began to tremble.
“Jie Jie Jie!” Paul smiled evilly, “Congratulations on discovering the truth about this world.”
“Ah——”
"Touch-"
As a scream spread throughout the lord's mansion, a large group of guards and Chief Secretary Bernard broke into the door.
As soon as they entered the door, they asked sharply: "Assassin! Is there an assassin?"
But they only saw two consultant ladies with green faces and the earl who looked like he was watching a joke. .
Paul waved his hands to them and explained: "Everyone, nothing happened. I was just discussing some matters about small lives with the two consultant ladies."
Little life matters? Discuss with the lady... or with two beautiful ladies?
Everyone lamented that the young earl had grown up, and exited the room with a tacit expression on their faces.
"Ladies, there is nothing to worry about. As long as we don’t drink raw water into our stomachs, these little things will not be harmful to our bodies. And I also found that as long as the water is boiled, You can kill them."
Seeing the two female consultants being so frightened, Paul spoke to comfort them.
Boiling water can kill them, the two female consultants firmly remembered this.
(End of this chapter)