Chapter 1021

Therefore, he decided not to go to Jingshi for the time being, but rushed to Yangzhou first, and went to meet with Su Song, the original creator of the escapement who is currently working in Yangzhou.

Su Song is a native of Tong'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian, whose talent is extraordinary, sensitive and studious, and is said in the history of the nine streams of a hundred schools, as for arithmetic, the earth, the mountain scriptures, the materia medica, the law and other learning everything, is definitely not inferior to Shen Kuo's all-round material boss.

The most important thing is that in the first year of Yuanyou, Su Tian presided over the development of a water transport instrument image table based on the experience of his predecessors, coupled with his solid theory and basic skills.

It is a giant astronomical instrument that is 12 meters high and 7 meters wide, like a three-story building.

Su Song not only built the instrument, but also left behind drawings and instructions, which he wrote down in his instructions. "Adopt the sayings of all families, keep the instrument of the instrument, place one in the middle, the platform has two partitions, put the armillary sphere on the top, and the armillary image is placed on the bottom, the cardinal wheel axle is trapped in the middle, and the bell and drum are always on the wheel...... With the water wheel, the wheel rotates and the instrument moves. ”

This is the world's first mechanism that relies on water power to tell the time with the movement of celestial bodies. It has three functions: observing the movement of celestial bodies, demonstrating the changes of celestial phenomena, and automatically ringing the bell and ringing the bell with the passage of the celestial phenomena to accurately tell the time.

It can be said that it is a precision instrument that combines a clock machine with an astronomical machine for observation.

Not only did he make such a powerful machine, but the most important thing is that his official fortune is much more awesome than Shen Kuo.

However, this centrist boss was upright and unwilling to go along with the old party who liked to jump up and down, and after less than a year, he couldn't stand the noise of those guys, so he simply resigned from his position and then became a magistrate.

Travel to Yangzhou. And Shen Kuo is the New Party and Su Song is a neutral, and between the two, there is not too much conflict in their political positions, but because of each other's similar knowledge, they are confidants.

Shen Kuo found Su Song, and after communicating Wang Yang's ideas and ideas with Su Song, Su Song also agreed very much, after the joint efforts of these two bigwigs, plus the idea put forward by Wang Yang, a young old driver.

Finally, after nearly a year of work, it was finally completed, and Shen Kuo took this treasure to Bianliang, Tokyo, to meet Zhao Xu, the son of heaven.

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After the Son of Heaven helped Shen Kuo up, his eyes fell on the wooden box that was close to a height, and his eyes were full of inquiring curiosity.

By this time, the heavy wooden box had been carried into the imperial study.

"Your Majesty, this is a mechanical timepiece that doesn't need sunlight or water to keep accurate time." Shen Kuo gestured, and then took the initiative to walk to the box, signaling the forbidden soldiers to help him, and then began to disassemble the wooden box.

After a lot of effort, the wooden box was finally pried open, and after a large amount of cotton used to prevent shocks was removed, the true face was finally revealed.

Looking at this machine, which is about half a zhang high, about two feet five wide, and about three feet thick, most of the structures inside are wooden, and only a small amount is a copper machine, Zhao Xu, the son of heaven, felt that his eyes were protruding outward.

"This thing is also a timer?" I stood in front of him and looked at it for a long time, looking at this machine full of gears, which was really too different from the copper kettle used in the palace.

"Yes, it's the timer...... Shen Kuo took a deep breath, looking at the mechanical timer that he had conceived and designed with Su Song and Wang Yang with an extremely proud expression.

In particular, in front of it, a copper disc about a foot and a half square is marked with small scales, and in addition to the small scales, there are large scales, and on the large scales, there are all in the shape of an animal.

Zhao Xu, the Son of Heaven, looked at it carefully and couldn't help but say curiously. "Rats, oxen, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes...... Could it be that this is arranged according to the twelve hours? ”

"Your Majesty is wise, these tiniest scales represent a blink of an eye, also known as a second, and the big scale represents the hour, Your Majesty, look at this again, this is the second hand, and this is the minute hand, and this is the hour hand."

"The second hand is a minute in one circle, and the minute hand is half an hour in one circle, and every fifteen divisions of the minute hand is a quarter of an hour, and the hour hand is an hour when it moves from one aspect to another......"

"How can this thing move, it really doesn't need to be driven by water power?" Zhao Xu, the Son of Heaven, asked after turning the heavy mechanical timer around several times.

"Your Majesty is wise, it's just that it doesn't need water, but only needs to pull this copper chain to this position, you see, it's starting to move......" Shen Kuo walked to the front, and after reaching in, he pulled a copper chain and pulled it to the end.

Then, when he let go, a soft clicking sound was heard, and then the gears in the machine began to turn, and then the second hand began to move.

The sound of the machine is not loud, and the important parts are made of copper, and animal fat is used as a lubricant, so that the noise of the machine is minimized.

Zhao Xu, the Son of Heaven, even experimented several times in person, and almost every time he blinked, the second hand just went to the next square, which made him amazed.

"Your Majesty, wait a minute, it's going to be time soon......" At this time, Shen Kuo suddenly said, sure enough, just when the minute hand finally arrived, and the hour hand reached the scale of the rabbit.

I heard the sound of the bell ringing inside, and the sound was naturally far less than the bell of the ancient temple, but it was also clear and thorough, and it was struck four times in a row.

"Your Majesty, this means that we have just entered the Mao hour, because it is the fourth hour from the time of the child to the time of the hour, so at this time, the bell will be struck four times to remind that the time has come."

"And if you're worried about the bell ringing, you can press it, so that the bell won't ring and won't disturb others."

With Shen Kuo's explanation, the Son of Heaven Zhao Xu felt more and more that this thing was really good. "The corona needs sunlight, and the copper kettle needs water. As for this mechanical timer, it only needs to pull the copper chain, and it can move around on its own and tell the time by itself, wonderful, wonderful......"

"Su Qing's ability, I know, the water planetarium he made back then, tall and majestic, magnificent, almost into my Tokyo Bianliang scene. I didn't expect it to be able to do it so exquisitely......"

“…… Your Majesty, this is just a sample, according to Brother Wushan, oh no, according to Lord Wang's conception, when this thing is completely made of copper and iron parts, it can be made more exquisite, and even to the point that it can be carried around as the size of a bowl. ”

Zhao Xu, the son of heaven, couldn't help but gasp. "It's the size of a bowl and can be carried around at any time?"

"Formally, after Xia Guan and Master Su removed some of these structures for celestial phenomena, they were already able to greatly reduce their size. And many of these parts can indeed be made more delicate and small, without affecting their efficacy. ”

"Moreover, if this copper chain is replaced by a spring, then it can indeed be done as Lord Wang said without fear of movement and easy to carry."

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