Chapter 587: High-Pressure Steam Engine
Regarding the high-pressure steam engine, Bi Mingqi has studied it for so many years, and he already has an eyebrow.
The most important thing is that the general direction has been given, as long as the general direction is given, the next step is to scrutinize the details of the direction.
Once the general direction is wrong, it is easy to go in the opposite direction, and no matter how much money and talent are invested, no matter how in-depth the research is, the final research results will always be wrong.
Bi Mingjue and the students of Beijing Normal University set this general direction, that is, if you want to increase the power of the steam engine, the most important thing is to change the boiler to a high-pressure boiler.
The power system of the Daming steam engine, in addition to the sealing ring changed to a metal copper ring, also changed a lot of places.
Bi Mingqi took out the last version of the drawing and handed it to his teacher: "Master, the shape of this boiler is completely different from the past, and it has been changed to a copper pipe." ”
"It's just that the diameter of this copper pipe has not yet been determined, and the tentative diameter is 1.5 meters, but according to the finished product."
"The diameter of 1.5 meters was not enough to provide the kind of high pressure that I wanted, so I changed it to between 1.8 meters and 2 meters."
Zhu Shun took it in his hand, and just glanced at it, and knew that Bi Mingqi and the others had successfully researched it.
Zhu Shun already had the general direction of the high-pressure steam engine in his mind, and he never said it, just because he wanted to cultivate a series of mechanical geniuses such as Bi Mingqi.
Scientific inquiry and the growth of talents are not something that can be achieved overnight, and if we blindly pull out the seedlings to help them grow, the foundation is quite unsolid.
In this way, it is easy for them to form a dependency mentality, thinking that it is enough to rely on Zhu Shun, the mountain chief, for everything, which is extremely unfavorable for a scientist's independent thinking.
If Zhu Shun really did that, Bi Mingqi would have been a world-class scientist who always ate ready-made, and it was very likely that he would directly become waste wood.
Zhu Shun wasted so much painstaking effort, and the effect has already come out, and it took Bi Mingqi just a few years to invent the high-pressure steam engine that took nearly 200 years to develop in Europe.
Although it is only a rough prototype, it is already a very approximate shape, but there are some differences in details.
Zhu Shun felt a little emotional in his heart at this time, those Europa people often advocated that they were superior races in later generations, which can be seen from Bi Mingjue's incident.
It is the Chinese nation that is really smart and can really lead the world, and both gunpowder and printing have brought great changes to the world.
It's just that it was used in the wrong place, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty wasted all the talents of the land of China on Baguwen when the industrial revolution was the most appropriate.
No matter how many talented people there are, they will read those eight-strand texts all day long, instead of putting their wisdom and talent on scientific research.
The final result is that all the talents of the Chinese land for hundreds of years have been wasted, and they can only be closed to the country.
Zhu Shun nodded, and handed the drawings back to Bi Mingjue: "The design is quite good, it is better to use 2 for this size, so that the steam pressure is completely sufficient." ”
Bi Mingqi has always been an entrustment to his teacher, as a holy decree more than a holy decree, solemnly nodded: "Regarding the materials of the boiler, it has also been carefully considered, except for a few parts of low carbon steel, most of them are wrought iron. ”
"In this way, the cost is reduced, and the high-pressure steam engine designed is also simple to make, and it is a low-carbon steel plate riveting technology."
"The cost has been reduced, and the manufacturing speed has gone up, which is the ideal power upgrade."
Being able to design a high-pressure steam engine in just a few years was enough to surprise Zhu Shun.
What he didn't expect was that the sixth disciple Bi Mingjue's positive consideration of high pressure had been detached from the technical level.
It extends not only to the material aspect, but also to the manufacturing aspect, and even to the commercial use of the product.
Today, the sixth disciple Bi Mingqi gave Zhu Shun a really big surprise, smiled gently, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Give the teacher a detailed introduction." ”
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