Chapter 176 Begins to rivet steamed steel
The eightieth birthday of the Grand Duke of Mainz is over. On the surface it looks lively. The master celebrated his birthday. One of his granddaughters will marry Byrne next year. The grandson of the Archduke, the prey captured by the reorganized army was the Archduke Byrne and the Duke of Wesson combined.
Under the table, the upstream regional cooperation organization reached a preliminary agreement on training new troops. Duke Wesson promised to send troops to help defend the territories of Baron Wesson and others in the spring. The Archduke of Mainz secretly warned Herbert After the Erviti Federation envoys stopped causing trouble to Duke Wesson, they stopped. 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 Castle with the 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 tend 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 his best 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, he started working for Wesson in the era of Frederick's grandfather. The family produces horse-drawn carriages.
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 frame truck developed last year became the The standard equipment of the Wesson Army, and 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 also more than a dozen young people who had emerged in the mechanical field in recent years, including Schmidt and Liebherr. and Becher's youngest 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 people The cup of Liebherr said "Celebrating the completion of the 100th steam engine", 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 Weissenburg University. Frederick agreed without even thinking about it. After asking about her research direction, he decided to let her join. tractor research group.
At the beginning of the meeting, Frederick said: "Today, we are going to study a machine powered by steam engines that can replace mules and horses for plowing!"
"The new agricultural machine we want to develop The design principle of machinery can be summed up as 'multi-riveting steamed 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 rivet connections, and only a few are needed. Screws are only used in places that are frequently repaired."
Then he stretched out his third finger and saw that everyone else had finished taking notes before saying: "To achieve the first goal, the machine needs to use a steam engine. Start with a 20-horsepower steam engine, and gradually increase the horsepower, striving to cross 20 to 30 horsepower every two to three years, and finally reach 100 horsepower."
Finally, he stretched out his fourth finger and said: "This is it. The 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 mentioned a principle to improve 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. This page also contains There was a note from Frederick authorizing the borrowing.
Frederick waited quietly for them to finish reading the information, otherwise they could only 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. Furthermore, 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 will 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 the development of mathematics next year and put calculus into it at the end.
It’s just that although he had pretty good grades in advanced math 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?"
To most of the people here, especially Austria For students at Met, using machine power to drive a car is expected.
While in Constantbul, All Might began to study the Golem Puppet Horse, hoping to use it to replace expensive war horses. After all, war horses with one or two hundred gold coins can easily be killed and disabled in battle. Robot horses If you break four legs, just come back and find an after-sales service to replace them with new ones.
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 pack horse, it could not Sell it.
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 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.
Just from the data, there are still many problems that need to be solved, such as transmission, steering, clutch and brake, 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.
(End of this chapter)