Chapter 206 Clockwork Centrifugal Pump
“What happened?”
Jeanne came in a hurry on horseback. Before the horse stopped, she easily turned over and got off.
Dismounting at the same time amid the sound of horse hooves, was Paslik who came with him.
Horn smiled awkwardly: "There is a problem with the calculation of the depth of the salt well. You have to help us weld another iron pipe."
Picking up a piece of iron material, Jeanne stepped forward, narrowed her eyes, and tiny lightning began to dance in her hand, and violent white light flew out from her fingers.
The edge of the iron pipe began to melt rapidly and connected with the new iron pipe, but the connection seemed to be surrounded by a thin black swimming ring.
Different from the initial loud blasting of lightning from the palm of her hand, after a long period of welding work, Jeanne's control of lightning has reached a new level.
In this way, a thick iron pipe about ten meters long and as thick as an arm is welded.
"Okay." Horn clapped his hands to signal everyone's attention, "Insert the iron pipe into the salt well and start filling it with water."
The pipes must be filled with water first because Horn did not use the double-donkey-head pull-out structure of the original Newcomen steam engine, but directly used a centrifugal pump in one step.
Anyway, salt water does not have the same viscosity as oil, and does not need to handle high-pressure liquids, so why not use a more efficient structure like a centrifugal pump.
“Is this the clockwork engine water pump you are talking about?” Paslik put his hand into the iron pipe and fiddled with the fan blades. “It feels no different from the blower fan of the salt stove. "
"Of course there is a difference." Horn pulled Paslik away and directed the beastmen to install the water pump on the iron pipe of the salt well. "The fan blades are straight. Mine is curved.”
“What’s the difference?” Looking at the water pump being assembled, Jeanne was confused.
Horn smiled and said: "Of course, the arc-shaped fan blades will generate centrifugal force when they rotate. As long as the direction is correct, the water can be thrown out and a vacuum will be formed in the center of the pump.
In order to fill this vacuum, The atmospheric pressure will push the water below up, and then flow out from this outlet."
Walking around the ugly big thing in front of him, Paslik felt like he was being trapped by a pile of iron parts. , a lump of iron composed of discs and gears.
Knocking it with his thick knuckles, he could still hear the echo.
Several workers were carrying buckets and filling bucket after bucket with water until the entire pipe was filled.
After going around twice, Paslik thought for a while: "You mean, if you use this fan to blow the elements, you can suck the water up?"
"Yes."
"This is impossible." Paslik immediately shook his head, "I know you may have been inspired by the elephant's trunk sucking water, but that is only a small amount of water.
In fact, it takes a lot of water to suck well water. The suction power required was too great. We once had a witch who could shape the wind element and tried to draw the wind up from the well.
But this one was powerful enough to blow 3 or 4,000 pounds of rock. The fallen witch can’t hold back even after pumping water up to a foot high. Is it possible that your water pump is stronger than the witch?”
"Did you put a lid on the wellhead when you pumped? Are there any gaps in the well wall?"
"There was no lid on the well." Paslik asked, "Does this have anything to do with whether there are gaps in the well wall?" ”
Horn was at a loss for words and didn’t know how to answer. Could it be possible to talk about atmospheric pressure all the way from Newton?
It seems that it is time to write a book on natural common sense and scientific methodology. How about calling it "Mathematical Principles of Natural Theology"?
“Don’t watch ads to see the efficacy.” Horn pushed Paslik away, walked to the starter of the clockwork centrifugal pump, and held the clockwork key that was about the same size as a tractor crank. .
At this time, Horn couldn't help but feel a little excited. He had been looking for this kind of industrial machine for so long, and finally there was a possibility. When he first learned that there was no coal or sulfur in this world, and that water vapor could somehow seep into the void, he gave up.
But it’s true that there is no place to go after trying to break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort at all to get there.
The steam engine brought the first industrial revolution to mankind. It quickly surpassed water power and animal power, liberating human hands and productivity.
Could the clockwork centrifugal pump in front of me, which has a structure like a large disc of a clock, be the steam engine of this world?
The centrifugal pump consists of three parts: a clockwork box composed of an orichalcum spring and a star-cast gear. Inside the clockwork pump are arc-shaped fan blades and a long pumping pipe.
The orichalcum spring in the barrel is mounted on the escapement speed regulating structure and is connected to a star cast gear with a radius of about one meter. The star cast gear is connected to an ordinary cast iron gear with a radius of 10 centimeters.
When the large and small gears are meshed for transmission, the gear diameter is inversely proportional to the rotational speed, so when the large gear rotates at 200 rpm, the small gear can rotate at approximately 2,000 rpm.
Horn only needs to input enough energy into the 2,000-pound star-cast gear to turn the 2-pound gear at 200 revolutions per minute.
According to the formula of kinetic energy, the kinetic energy input by Horn to start is almost only one thousandth, and the remaining part is provided by the ether inside the gear.
This is just a theoretical value. The actual speed is estimated to be less than 1500 rpm, but it is enough.
In addition, Horn also discovered an interesting point, that is, although Shilov said that if the crank is turned, it will draw a small amount of mana every once in a while.
But under the control of the clockwork and escapement speed regulation, it no longer needs to draw additional mana, but the loss is higher.
Horn slowly twisted the clockwork key until it was tightened, then took a deep breath and released his hand: "Gear machine, start!"
In the creaking spring Amidst the sound of friction, the clockwork key began to rotate slowly. Under the escapement speed regulating mechanism, it rotated extremely slowly, while the huge star-cast gear began to rotate rapidly.
Amidst the sound of gears constantly meshing, the pipe began to vibrate hummingly, and the sound of tidal water flow continued to ripple in the pipe.
In Paslik's disbelieving eyes, the brine at the bottom of the well gushes out crazily like a fountain, while the lycanthropes hurriedly use basins to catch it.
And the hand of the King of Carthage anxiously and distressedly directed the lycanthropes who were clumsy in taking the brine: "Oh, it didn't go in, it's full, it's full, ah, it's about to overflow. "
Standing next to the gear, the strong wind whipped up by the huge gear blew Horn's bangs on his forehead into a middle parting shape.
Paslik approached slowly as if in a dream, reaching out as if he wanted to touch the gear.
"Be careful." Horn warned. "Yesterday, a refugee who helped debug got his hand involved. If Das hadn't taken action in time and chopped off his forearm, he would have almost died."
Speaking of this, Horn couldn't help but feel a little emotional. He never thought that Shilov would move so fast.
After Horn told her the principle, she drew the design in one day, made prototypes in two days and made modifications, and spent another two days working with Jeanne to successfully create the first-generation trial version.
Jean Na stared blankly at the machine in front of her.
If you put this thing on a carriage, and then add horns and spikes on the front, what will happen when you face a knight?
I'm afraid only the legendary Great Knight can rival him, right?
Excluding the time required to build the Star Cast Gear, even if there are no ready-made materials, it would only take more than a week to manufacture and assemble this thing from scratch.
So how long does it take to train a knight? Ten years, or twenty years, let alone the Great Knight who stands at the top of all extraordinary knights.
Perhaps this is the hope against the extraordinary knight?
(End of this chapter)