Steam hammer?

What is a Steam Hammer?

"A steam hammer is a machine hammer propelled by water vapor, and the piston rod device of the hammer head and cylinder can move up and down...... You are? ”

In the next hour or so, Zhu Guoqiang was like a teacher, constantly explaining the steam hammer to Chen Zhizhao, a scholar who came out of nowhere, and what surprised Zhu Guoqiang was that it was not where they came from, but the curiosity of the two of them about the steam hammer and the machine.

This curiosity was very different from that of the conservative readers of the late Qing Dynasty. Far from resisting these novelties, they were fascinated by the "dough-like machine of large pieces of iron forged by a steam hammer."

"Steam, can steam really drive a hammer?"

Not to mention that it was Chen Zhizhao, even Ge Shizhen was also full of curiosity about this, looking at the curious appearance of the two of them, Zhu Guoqiang thought about it, and then said to them.

"Why don't we do an experiment?"

"Experiments?"

"Yes, it's a test, if you don't conduct a test, isn't it just empty talk?"

Laughing, Zhu Guoqiang led them to the laboratory, and looked at the exquisite glass test equipment in the laboratory, and the two of them were dumbfounded.

"Lord Shizi, what are these for?"

Looking at the exquisite glassware, even Chen Zhizhao, who has a lot of money, does not dare to act rashly, lest he break one piece, and he can't afford to lose it when the time comes, not because he can't lose money, but because he is worried that he can't buy it if he has money. He had a few Western glassware in his house, which were rare goods worth a hundred gold, and even that could not compare to the transparency of these glasses.

Even when Chen Zhizhao saw Shi Ziye take out a transparent glass tube, pour water, plug the mouth of the bottle with a wooden stopper, and then burn the bottom of the tube with fire, he was even more nervous.

"Shiziye, small, be careful, in case you blow up ......"

In an instant, a feeling of tyrannical destruction rose in his heart, the prince of the world actually dared to burn such a crystal tube!

As for Ge Shizhen, who has an average family background, although he doesn't know how valuable these crystal-like glassware are, he can guess that these things must be very expensive, and they are definitely not what ordinary people can have.

"It's burned out, just replace it with another one......"

Shi Ziye's answer made the two of them all stunned for a while, and this is okay...... This, this clan is really rich and rivals the country!

Of course, Zhu Guoqiang didn't know what they were thinking, the equipment in this laboratory was originally used by him to try to make mine mercury, after all, artillery paper is not easy to buy. The reason why he brought them over now is entirely because of the curiosity shown by the two of them, taking advantage of the time to change clothes, he deliberately returned to another world to check these two people, although he did not find Chen Zhizhao's information, but he found Ge Shizhen, if nothing else, he will be the list eye of the next year's exam, a person who relied on the eight articles to get the list of people, and he was actually full of curiosity about steam hammer and science, which was completely beyond his imagination.

In fact, Zhu Guoqiang didn't know that the scholars of the Ming Dynasty were completely different from the scholars of the late Qing Dynasty, and in Matteo Ricci's book, he had more than once described the strong "curiosity" of the scholars of the Ming Dynasty about science and Western learning, and even reached the point of "going crazy".

Even in the southwestern border of Yunnan, some people have heard of his name, because the distance is too far to meet him, so they corresponded with him through letters, he received many letters, some of whom were completely unknown, and they discussed with him in letters Catholicism, science and technology, and other topics, especially science and technology and mathematics, which were the center of their discussions.

It is most precious for a nation to have such a vigorous curiosity. If it weren't even for Matteo Ricci's records, how could posterity know that the Ming Dynasty scholars of this era would be so curious about science. After all, all this is lost in history, not only that, but even many people directly look at the Ming Dynasty with the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the scholars of the Qing Dynasty faced new things such as foreigners, trains, and telegraphs, with panic, hostility, and ignorant refusal, they took it for granted that the scholars of the Ming Dynasty were the same.

When they can't imagine it, whether it is Matteo Ricci or any missionary who came to China in the Ming Dynasty, they all recorded the curious and studious Ming Dynasty in a large number of words. It records how those wise Da Ming scholars were full of enthusiasm to learn foreign languages and scripts, so that they could learn Western science, even music and art. And all of this is lost in history.

When the scholars of the late Qing Dynasty used a conservative and resistant mentality to resist science and technology and progress, the orthodox people wondered why they had come to this point. This detail can tell people how much the quality of the Chinese has declined under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty for hundreds of years?

Of course, Zhu Guoqiang didn't know, otherwise he wouldn't have been surprised by the studious and scientific curiosity shown by these two people, and then personally gave them a steam test.

With the heating of the alcohol lamp, there was a sudden "bang", and the wooden cork was bounced away, and at the moment when the wooden cork bounced off, Ge Shizhen and Chen Zhizhao stared at the glass tubes, and they didn't speak for a long time, and Chen Zhizhao muttered to himself.

"Steam...... Machine hammer ...... propelled by water vapor Hammers, cylinders、...... Piston rod...... I can move up and down......"

When he muttered these words, he was completely immersed in some kind of imagination, although Zhu Guoqiang did not explain anything to him, but in his mind, a simple idea had even been formed, he even walked to the alcohol lamp, touched the glass test tube with his fingers, and said to himself.

"This is the cylinder, and then you need a piston, and the wooden plug just now is the piston, but it bounces off, how can I not bounce off......"

"So vent!"

Ge Shizhen reminded on the side.

"Yes, to exhaust, as long as the gas is vented, the wooden plug, no, the piston will not bounce off, and then ......"

"But this time the gas is discharged, and then how to move?"

Listening to the two of them talking to themselves, Zhu Guoqiang was almost dumbfounded, the previous experiment made these two dumbfounded, but now, their inferences made him dumbfounded, it can be like this...... Aren't you supposed to be a reader who opens and closes your mouths?

This, this rhythm is not right!