Chapter 191 Iron Ambition 3
Guy Burns came to the Lord's Mansion at 1:30 in the afternoon. After sitting in the drawing room, the chief secretary came to invite him to meet the owner of the place.
After entering the lord's office, he was first surprised by the simple furnishings here. It really didn't look like a place where a count-level noble would work daily.
Then he saw the local lord Paul Grayman. As the legend said, he was very young and looked to be only about fifteen years old. This was the man who came up with the original design of the harvester. .
At this time, the young earl was standing not far from the door, seeming to greet him.
Burns was about to bow according to the etiquette of visiting a high-ranking noble, but was interrupted by the other party's voice.
"Welcome, Mr. Burns."
Paul spoke first, stepped forward, stretched out his right hand to hold the other person's hand, and then shook it slightly up and down.
Is this the etiquette of northwest people? It was quite simple. Burns felt the strength coming from the other party's hand, and subconsciously held Paul's hand with a slight force.
"Hello, Earl Greyman. It's an honor to meet you. I've wanted to see you since I saw the harvester. Oh! What a genius."
The first sentence is so straightforward. Is he worthy of being a person who only focuses on technology?
"Haha! It is also an honor for me to be recognized by an expert like you. Please sit down!"
"No, you are really too modest."
Wait After both the guests and the host sat down, Paul first praised him for his contribution to the development of springs, and then told him the purpose of coming to him - he planned to let him be responsible for developing a hydraulic blasting system to be used in the ironworks he was about to build. In the factory.
"Blower system? What if Sir Earl wants to use water power instead of manpower to drive the blower?"
"That's it, and the traditional blowers can't meet my needs. I need a more efficient blower."
Burns knows that the blowers that are widely used in metal smelting today are based on beasts. The air bladder is made of leather. Both ends of the bladder are equipped with air ducts and piston air inlets controlled by the operator. When the air is inlet, the operator pulls up the bladder with a rope and then steps down to blow the air into the furnace. Each furnace is equipped with There are four blowers, operated by two people facing each other.
How much wind power does the lord need?
Paul spread out a piece of paper on the table, on which he drew the structure of a small iron-making blast furnace. Although it was small, it was much larger than the current furnace.
“My ironworks will use a new type of furnace, just like the one in the picture, and a new type of fuel-coke, but this coke is not as good as charcoal It is easy to burn and must use greater wind power to support combustion, so I designed a new blowing system-piston blowing. Of course, this is only a preliminary design and needs you to continue to optimize and improve."
A wooden piston bellows was carried into the office by a servant, and the two men discussed around the wooden bellows.
There was a handle on the bellows. Burns pulled the handle outward, and the air outlet blew out the wind. When he pushed the handle back in to its original position, the air outlet continued to blow out the wind.
He was amazed, "Your Majesty, can I take it apart and take a look?"
"Of course, please study it as you like."
So the bellows was Cutting it into pieces, Burns quickly figured out its internal structure.
A piston plate is installed inside the air box, and there is a rectangular air duct on the lower part of one side of the box. The front and rear openings are connected to the inside of the box, and there is an outward air outlet in the middle.
A single-page double valve inside the air outlet allows the air outlet to communicate with half of the square tube, blocking the air flow between the air outlet and the other half of the square tube. Driven by the air flow, the two parts of the square tube alternately communicate with the air outlet.
When the piston plate moves back and forth, it can press out the air, thereby achieving continuous air blasting.
“Simple and exquisite design, compared with the bladder blower, it can continuously supply air without stopping.” Burns commented. He looked at the inside of the bellows and thought for a long time before coming up with his own idea. Suggestion: "I think the square box can be changed into a cylindrical shape, which can withstand higher wind pressure."
Paul nodded: "I said this is just a preliminary design, please boldly improve the experiment. In addition to turning it into a cylindrical shape, maybe you can try to make it into metal. After all, things made of wood are not as reliable as metal."< br>
“That’s not necessarily true, but I will try. Indeed, as long as a reasonable hydraulic drive system can be designed, air can be continuously blown into the furnace through this kind of bellows.”
He asked curiously: "What kind of fuel can make this kind of blower possible?"
Paul placed a dark stone on the table, "coke".
“Isn’t this the commonly used fuel coal in the northwest? It seems to burn easily.”
"No, this is what is obtained after further processing of coal. The sulfur in the coal will make the smelted iron unusable. Coke cannot be fully burned under ordinary conditions, so I need this new blower and A power system that can drive it continuously."
"Leave it to me, Lord Count!"
"I wish you good luck!"
"Then, if there's nothing else, I'll take my leave."
It seems that Mr. Burns is eager to start his new job.
Paul did not let him go, "Don't worry, Mr. Burns. I am very interested in your previous experience. Are you willing to talk to me?"
Burns was nervous for a while, Earl Grayman. Isn't it talking about his previous imprisonment?
His face turned red, and his neck also turned red.
"Sir, if you are referring to the matter of my imprisonment, then it is completely because some villain is framing me, and all the accusations are fabricated out of thin air."
This is his life The lingering shame.
"Please don't be nervous, I don't mind this matter of yours at all."
Paul smiled and told the other party not to get excited. He already knew from Hansel why Burns was in jail and what happened to him. It was widely spread in the royal capital.
“I heard from Sir Abbott that your popularity in the royal capital does not seem to be very good, especially among your colleagues?”
“Well...I admit, I and I They have different ideas and can't talk about it."
He did not directly explain that his imprisonment was related to his colleagues. After all, he had no direct evidence.
"Then what is your philosophy that makes you willing to teach those at the bottom about mechanical knowledge for free, even at the risk of being squeezed out by your peers?"
This is what Paul said from the beginning. I want to ask, maybe, he can find a like-minded person in this world.
Thanks to "Zartoo" for the tip!
(End of this chapter)