Chapter 132: The Night Banquet VIII
Not only was General Stockch satisfied with Professor Lind's invention, but so was Professor Roentgen, and after finally believing that there was neon gas in the gas samples brought by Professor Lind, Professor Roentgen did not hesitate to let Joey's Foundation pay for it, and decided to make persistent efforts to create a real neon sign in the past two days.
Although the bank investment industry represented by Mr. Merck does not understand the scientific principle of gas separation, it has also made up the industrial significance of gas classification with Joy and the gods of science in advance, especially after Joy listed a lot of prospects (money scenes) and the endorsement of scientists for Professor Linde's gas application, he did not hesitate to agree to the foundation's investment in Professor Linde's gas project as a shareholder representative of the Crown Princess Foundation.
The Siemens brothers were very interested in Professor Linde's refrigeration technology, and the reason for their interest was not that they were not ready to apply Prof. Linde's technology to household refrigeration technology. In any case, the Siemens brothers could not shrink the huge steam boiler to the point where it could fit into the homes of ordinary people. With Joey's strong recommendation, the Siemens brothers now regard Professor Clausius's motor ammonia refrigeration technology as the development trend of future household refrigeration technology.
The reason why the Siemens brothers are interested in Professor Linde's refrigeration technology is that they believe that Professor Linde's refrigeration technology has a broad prospect in building refrigeration, indoor refrigeration in public places, etc. In other words, with the acceleration of urbanization in Germany and the world powers, commercial refrigeration of buildings or public buildings will be a business with a broad prospect.
In fact, modern central refrigeration and heating technology has evolved from steam refrigeration technology, but from coal-fired boilers to gas-fired boilers.
The American Carrier made the first air conditioner to use electricity, and now the Americans like to remove the words "electricity" and become Carrier to make the air conditioner, which deprives Professor Linde of credit in disguise.
The era of electricity has just begun, and air conditioners using electricity can take their time, but using steam refrigeration technology, Joey decided to push this technology forward through Siemens, and no matter what the world, it will slap Americans in the face.
After a small-scale demonstration of the scientific research results of Professor Linde in the Taigong Palace at the beginning of June, Linde was founded in Berlin four months earlier than in history, and Linde Gas, the world's most famous gas company, Linde Gas, which Linde is most proud of, was established more than two years earlier than history.
A few months earlier, or even two years earlier, was only a small point in history, but it was indeed a huge leap forward for Joey to climb the industrial technology tree. Because there are so many potential branches of the tech tree that have been lit up.
For example, Sir Otto von Liebig of OXO has already seen the food preservation technology brought by carbon dioxide gas and a number of carbon dioxide gas drinks that are about to take the world by storm under Joey's hint, and is waving his skirt at himself.
Jörgen Schumann, the artillery designer of the Grusen Arms Manufacturing Company from the Grusen enterprise group in Magdeburg, saw in the nitrogen gas separated by Professor Linde the gaseous medium needed for the oil and gas stationing and re-entry device of his tube retreat artillery.
In the history of Joey's previous life, there were two types of stationary and retreat devices for tube-retreat guns of the late nineteenth century, oil and gas and springs, the simplest of which was the spring-loaded device, which had been adopted by the British royal artillery earlier this year (1879).
Now that Joey has come to this world and understands the future development trend of artillery, it is natural that the direct-aim artillery currently in use in this world can still use the stupid erection retreat, which is an inefficient and unpromising way of artillery retreat.
Joey had discussed with Mr. Jörgen Schumann, the famous artillery designer of the Grusen Company, about the tube retreat scheme of the gun, but he had been suffering from the lack of suitable high-pressure gas, and the oil and gas stationary retreat and re-entry device was still at the stage of theoretical drawings provided by Joey. The nitrogen found today from Professor Linde will officially start the research process of the Grusen Arms Manufacturing Company's pipe-retreating oil and gas stationary retreat device.
At present, the new artillery developed by the Grusen Arms Manufacturing Company, with the help of the excellent metal materials science of the Grusen Iron and Steel Enterprise, has made a breakthrough in the spring-loaded reentry device. The prototype of the spring-loaded rapid-fire gun had already appeared, and it could be finalized later in June, along with Joey's Lee Enfield rifle.
The kings of the Hamburg shipbuilding industry, the newest shipbuilding giant of the German Empire, and the owners of the Blom-Foss shipyard who recently joined the camp of Crown Prince Frederick's NEP, Hermann-Blom and Ernst Foss, have keenly discovered the gas cutting process related to gas welding, which will have a great impact on the shipbuilding industry due to the rapid cutting of steel plates.
Sir August Thyssen, who is also acetylene, as a representative of the Ruhr Iron and Steel Consortium, saw what Joy has always said, the dawn of the carburizing process on the surface of nickel-chromium alloy steel, with 3000 degrees of acetylene, there will be no problems in the surface quenching and carburizing process of alloy steel.
Hödder-Bergwicks, chairman of Rheinsteel, has a soft spot for oxygen, and as an expert in the metallurgical industry, he naturally knows that in the smelting process, oxygen blowing on liquid molten iron can obtain high-quality mild steel (stainless steel).
The results of research from the Crown Princess Victoria Foundation show that in the smelting process of non-ferrous metals, the use of converter oxygen blowing will make the production of carbon steel, alloy steel, copper and nickel faster, more productive, and most importantly, lower cost and less investment.
In the eyes of Hodder-Bergwicks, low-cost oxygen, which is mass-produced by industrial methods, is simply the gas gold of the steel industry.
Professor Clausius was interested in Professor Linde's liquefied air, the remaining gas that refused to liquefy, and Professor Clausius was determined to help Professor Linde turn this gas into liquid.
The actual role of industrial gases is by no means limited to this, but Deutsche Industry, which first lit up the star of the scientific and technological tree, will be ahead of other countries in various fields.
The success of Professor Linde's trip to Berlin was completely unexpected, in fact, before he came to Berlin with these gases, he did not know that the gases he found could be used in those industries, but Sir Grusen wrote a special letter of recommendation for him, recommending him to go to the Victorian Crown Princess Foundation to find Joey.
When his godson told him that the actual family members of the foundation were children over 11 years old, Professor Lind simply saw the letter of recommendation as a last resort to try his luck if he couldn't find an investment in Berlin.
Although Professor Linde's idea of self-improvement is good, but fate always likes to joke, his itinerary has already been sold to Joey by his godson Stoling, Professor Lind was invited to the palace by Joey as soon as he arrived in Berlin, in front of a group of well-dressed big people, once his gas was confirmed, the Crown Princess Victoria Foundation handed him a difficult to refuse and unimaginable investment agreement.
The next day, factories named after himself were built in Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Cologne, Magdeburg, and Hamburg at the same time at an extraordinary speed.
Slightly different from the historical trajectory, due to the clause that the foundation's investment includes professional managers to manage the enterprise, Professor Linde finally chose to continue to engage in scientific research and education, and entrusted the operation of the enterprise to professional managers, and he enjoyed up to 33% of the equity dividend of Linde Enterprise, as well as the patent dividend of the Victoria Foundation.
In the future, in the face of the rolling dividends brought by Linde enterprises, especially Linde Gas, Professor Linde has always been glad that he has made a choice, which can not only engage in his favorite scientific research with peace of mind, but also avoid the hard work of running a business, and enjoy the privileged life brought by his patents.
The second beneficiary of Joey's busyness was a young German man Peter Behrens (Ps. Behrens, who was born in 1868, and the book pushes the master's birthday forward by 10 years for the sake of the plot. )。
Travelling between Berlin and Bohemia, he was a young artist who was already well-known in the Berlin fashion scene, and his fashionable vinyl illustrations were highly sought after by young women from the city's upper class.
Joey had long noticed the young man who signed Peter Behrens in his sister's fashion magazine. According to Joey's historical memory of the "Red Dot", the highest award for German industrial design in his previous life, this Mr. Peter Behrens should be the founder of German modernist design, the first person of industrial product design, and the most famous designer of the German Industrial League.
Joy has always revered this master who proposed "high-quality industrial products" in German history. Without the master Peter Behrens, and the Bauhaus School of Industrial Art that he founded, the road to the world's fame of German industrial products might have been even more tortuous.
When the idea of using German technology to show the Russians power and beauty was determined, Joy only obtained the power of German technology from the hands of the German science and technology gods, but the beauty of German technology, or the beauty of industrial products, fell on the master of Joey's heart, Mr. Peter Behrens.
After being grounded by his mother, Joey felt that he had been very lucky lately, and it was the early summer when Mr. Behrens went to Bohemia to collect style, but a sudden cold left him in Berlin, and the cold just happened to make Joey rush to the door.
After a courtesy introduction, Joey hurriedly put the electric fan, the electric kettle (Professor Kirchhoff's latest product), and the concept of the refrigerator and household air conditioner that he envisioned on Mr. Behrens's desk.
Young Mr. Behrens, obviously an idea-minded and proud young man, in addition to being a great painter, had the same ambition as a great architect to build a nest of his own for Lily Kramer, a Jewish girl with whom he was in love.
Mr. Behrens, who is working with his fiancée to draw a blueprint for the future, obviously doesn't have a good look at Joey who broke through the door. Seeing Joey's ostentatious dress and the attendants around him, Mr. Behrens immediately decided that Joey was the boring child of some nobleman, and had come to harass his life again.
Joy had already discovered Mr. Behrens' disdain for him from the way he looked at his clothes.
"Well, that's the bohemian side of artists, who don't despise the powerful, and artists don't seem to be able to create amazing works." Looking at Mr. Behrens' contemptuous eyes, Joey is very good at finding reasons for himself to adjust his mentality.
The exaggerated French court dress that aroused Mr. Behrens's contempt was purely because this afternoon was the queen's grandmother's court etiquette class, and Joey got the news that Mr. Behrens was in Berlin as soon as the class started, and he went straight to the door without changing his clothes.
Under Mr. Behrens' contemptuous gaze, Joey spread out a sketch of his own rough idea, after all, from his previous life more than a hundred years later, Joey copied the appearance of several products, hoping to make Mr. Behrens understand his thoughts.
"What do you call this, electric fan?"
"Yes, Dear Mr. Behrens, it's called an electric fan, and it's inspired by a clockwork fan, but it's lighter and easier to operate than a clockwork fan, and that's some of my idea of how it looks." Joey replied.
"But don't you think that the picture you deserve is vulgar? Why do you want to set so many gems and gold on an electric fan? Is it now the new fashion of the German aristocracy to flaunt wealth? Mr. Behrens was visibly contemptuous of Joey's nouveau riche practice piling up gems on his blueprints.
In fact, Joey has always been dissatisfied with the idea of a nouveau riche like himself, but he is not from an industrial design class, and he really can't think of a design method that expresses low-key luxury.
But Mr. Behrens' fiancée, Miss Lily Kramer, a kind lady, quietly pulled Mr. Behrens' sleeve to remind him of the way she spoke, and kept looking at Joey.
Joey scratched his head in embarrassment, nodded and acknowledged sincerely, "Dear Mr. Behrens, you are right, these designs of mine are indeed terrible, but this design came from an idea of mine, I want to make these products. Joey waved his hand at the drawings on the table, "I want to make them both low-key and luxurious." ”
"Simplicity and practicality are my design philosophy, as for luxury, I am just an ordinary person, luxury has nothing to do with me." After his lover pulled his sleeve again, Mr. Behrens decided to soothe his tone, "Frankly speaking, you said these things, I estimate that they will be ordinary people's daily necessities in the future, ordinary people are asking for practicality, function first, luxury This thing is not suitable for simple Germans, your design, I guess only those Russian beasts like it." ”
Hearing her lover lashing out at the Russians, especially as every ordinary German person knows, the German aristocracy has been friendly with Russia for generations, Miss Lily-Kramer tightened her lover's sleeve and looked at Joey's expression with concern.
When he heard Mr. Behrens scold the Russians for being brutes, Joey grinned, his eight white teeth shining brightly, and smiled at Mr. Behrens, "Dear Mr. Behrens, you are right, my previous nouveau riche design was used to steal money from the hands of those Russian brutes. ”