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New York's sewers were built in 1849 and are located between 30 and 200 feet underground, with a total length of more than 10,000 kilometers.

10,000 kilometers of sewers, in terms of size, are indeed cities, and by the end of the twentieth century, many people who could not afford to live in a house would move to the sewers, where they would beg God to bless them.

In order to ensure the drainage capacity of the sewer, the sewer height designed by Li Mu is about two meters, and the bottom of the sewer is in a "V" shape, which is conducive to the debris being washed away, and there are walking paths for maintenance personnel on both sides, and the exit of the sewer is ten kilometers away from the port area, and the sewage will be discharged directly into the sea.

What, what, you say sewage treatment plants?

I'm sorry, but nineteenth-century city construction didn't have this component, at least not in Cuba.

After the sewer is built, the water supply pipe will be laid on it, and at the same time, there will be another space above the water supply pipe for laying wires, cable equipment, etc. in the future, but San Diego is located in the tropics, so there is no need to think about heating here, otherwise the reserved pipes need more.

Considering the complexity of the underground pipeline system, which can be completed in a year, Li Mu is thankful that the Port of San Diego should have been expanded by then, and it is just in time to start the second phase of the project.

With such a large plan, it is no wonder that J.P. Morgan estimated that it would cost about $15 million.

Of course, this is the result of Li Mu's changes to the architectural drawings, and according to Nielsen's original plan, the scale is not so large.

For Li Mu, the port of San Diego will belong to Li Mu in 50 years, so Li Mu is really built according to the standards of the old nest, and when the port area is completed, the essence of the entire San Diego area will be concentrated in the port area, in terms of area, this is equivalent to a new San Diego.

In Li Mu's plan, the San Diego port area will use street lights for electricity supply, especially on the seaside breakdown, Li Mu will fill the entire wave break, which will become a landscape in the San Diego port in two years.

Of course, although there are light bulbs, it is not so simple to put them into practice, unless Li Mu can solve the problem of long-distance power supply, the light bulb can only become the privilege of the rich.

Fortunately, there was no dispute between direct current and alternating current in this era, Edison was still studying the telegraph, Nikola Tesla was still studying in Croatia, they had not yet set foot in the field of electricity, and Li Mu still had time to study slowly.

Speaking of Nikola Tesla, how could Li Mu forget this Zenith, many things that this guy has studied can still be called "black technology" even in the 21st century, in this era, Nikola Tesla is the first person in science and technology in this era, what Edison, Bell, etc., these people are completely incomparable with Nikola Tesla.

However, it is still early for Nikola Tesla to "go out of the mountain", and it will not be until at least ten years later that Nikola Tesla will leave Europe for New York.

In order to have more capital to attract Nikola Tesla, Li Mu found a new research project for the "Horse Laboratory", in addition to the engine, Li Mu ordered people to buy the patent of the "telephone" from Antonio Meucci, and at the same time hired Antonio Meucci to enter the "Horse Laboratory" as a researcher, specializing in the improvement of the "telephone".

In 1849, while researching electric shockers, Antonio Meucci stumbled upon the ability of wires to transmit sound, and immediately realized the unusual significance of this phenomenon and immediately began to study what he called the "talking telegraph".

This year, Alexander Bell, the inventor of the telephone in the general sense, was only two years old.

In 1860, Antonio Meucci presented the system to the public for the first time and introduced the invention in Italian to a New York newspaper.

That's right, it's Italian, and as an Italian, Antonio Meucci's English is terrible, which makes it impossible for Antonio Meucci to fit into American society, so he can't find investors.

In 1871, the year before Li Mu came to the United States, Antonio Meucci had to apply for a patent that needed to be renewed every year at a price of ten dollars a year, and in 1873, that is, this year, Li Mu, who was also penniless at the beginning, had begun to act as the financier of a country, and Antonio Meucci could not even take out the ten dollars to keep the patent.

Without Li Mu's intervention, Antonio Meucci would have had to give up this patent, and the patented technology of "telephone", which could generate a market of 100 billion US dollars in the future, would have become a patent that could be consulted and cited at will.

In fact, just twenty years later, when Bell Telephone won the "telephone patent" battle with the Western Union Telegraph Company, Antonio Meugchi tried to sue Bell for fraud, and the Supreme Court at the time also agreed with Antonio Mewucci's claim, but at this time, Antonio Meucci died.

With Li Mu's intervention, Antonio Meuchi will definitely not die with grief and despair, Li Mu invested 3,000 US dollars to buy Antonio Meucci's technology, and hired Antonio Meucci to join the "Junma Laboratory" for follow-up research on the "telephone" with a monthly salary of 300 US dollars.

After successfully purchasing the patent for the "telephone", Li Mu applied for the relevant patent in New York, and as in the previous cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the honor of the inventor of the "telephone" patent belongs to Antonio Meucci, but the ownership of the patent belongs to Li Mu.

With the patent of "telephone", Li Mu easily established the "Junma Telecom Company" and ordered Grover Cleveland to go to Europe and apply for the European patent of "telegraph".

Ah, it's a bit weird to use the word "order" to describe Grover Cleveland, the future president of the United States.

It is indeed the future, as a Democrat, Grover Cleveland's life has not been very good in recent years, and he is at a low ebb in his life, so he has to cooperate with Li Mu, a rising star of the Republican Party.

Yes, Li Mu is indeed a rising Republican star now, and because Li Mu's birthplace is not in the United States, Li Mu's position in the Republican Party is very special, whether it is a reformist or a hardliner in the Republican Party, they will not regard Li Mu as an enemy.

The U.S. Constitution stipulates that only Americans born in the United States are eligible to run for president of the United States, which was controversial for later President Arthur.

Arthur is the same Arthur who is now the chief of customs in New York, in 1881, less than four months after being elected president, Garfield was assassinated, Arthur as vice president succeeded as president of the United States in accordance with the United States Constitution, but Arthur's birthplace was not in the United States, but in Canada, although Arthur categorically denied this, but still caused a lot of controversy.

There is no such problem for Li Mu, Li Mu's birthplace is indisputable, and it is certainly not in the United States, so Li Mu can join the Republican Party, but he is not qualified to become a presidential candidate, but because of Li Mu's extensive connections, Li Mu has a wide range of influence in the Republican Party, which will make Li Mu the object of competition between reformers and hardliners in the party election a few years later.

Li Mu doesn't know these now, the port area has begun to excavate the sewer, this sewer to dig 20 meters deep, the bottom layer is a two-meter-high sewer, the use of double-layer masonry structure support, the middle to lay a layer of cement mortar, and then seal the two-meter-high sealing soil, to lay a layer of water supply pipeline, above the water supply pipeline to leave a channel for laying wires and cables in the future, and after all this is completed, at least within 50 years, the port area does not have to worry about the buried pipeline is not enough.

It is worth mentioning that the water supply pipeline laid by Li Mu in the port area is made of stainless steel.

That's right, after five months of research, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finally came up with stainless steel that met Li Mu's requirements, and Li Mu quickly applied for a patent for this technology and publicly introduced the invention in the newspaper.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researched stainless steel, and the most influential was the Carnegie McCandris Steel Company.

Li Mu is a shareholder of Carnegie-McCandris Steel Company, as a shareholder, Li Mu researched stainless steel, but did not notify Carnegie at the first time, which made Carnegie very dissatisfied with Li Mu.

Of course, Li Mu also has an excuse, Li Mu is currently in Cuba, thousands of miles away from the New England region, so Li Mu can't do everything, Li Mu's reply to Carnegie is: Regarding the stainless steel patent, it is all operated by Henry, Li Mu doesn't know-

Ah, I don't know, that's a great excuse.

Carnegie didn't care, and immediately left for San Diego to meet with Li Mu in person.

Of course, Li Mu did not refuse Carnegie's proposal, in fact, even if Carnegie did not come, Li Mu would coax Carnegie over, Li Mu was going to build a steel plant in San Diego, and Carnegie was the famous "Iron King" in the future, if he didn't cooperate with Carnegie, would he cooperate with that vampire from Rockefeller?

Of course, Carnegie's reputation was not much better than that of Rockefeller, and the "robber tycoon" was the best commentary on Carnegie, whose name was confirmed within two months.