Chapter 296: Watches & Bicycles

Next, Xiaoyan'er also visited several ordinary farmers to check the living conditions in the countryside.

The situation is very good, and in some respects it is even stronger than that of city dwellers, because the countryside is a vast area, so it is all European-style villa houses, and there are no high-rise houses.

In addition, there are no private builders in the Far Eastern Kingdom, and the government builds houses in a unified manner, all houses are a standard, there is no distinction between high and low, and the countryside is also a concentrated residence, similar to the community in the city, there is also running water and central heating, and it also integrates kitchen and bathroom facilities, which is very convenient and not much worse than in the city.

Xiao Yan'er just looked fresh, pretended, went home after a passing scene, and also won a lot of people's hearts, she always cares about the quality of life of farmers, and the people are only grateful.

The only drawback of the Far Eastern Kingdom is that commerce is not very prosperous, the lack of people is a hard injury, and the people have been living hard for a long time, and they are not very willing to spend money.

……

One day, Yang Wenli was reviewing the research report in the office, and Wang Rucheng entered with a bitter face and said in a slur manner: "Your Majesty, your subordinates are incompetent, and the company is now a little unable to make ends meet." ”

When Yang Wenli heard this, he immediately became serious and asked him, "What's the matter?" The basic materials in China are all provided by the company, so why can't they make ends meet? ”

"This ...... Since last year, the company's researchers have been constantly expanding, they are all high-paid people, and this expenditure alone is a lot, the most important thing is that the army has expanded several times, and the army's expenses are simply overwhelmed, and the company's existing revenue alone can no longer afford it. ”

"Oh! I see, you can't be blamed for that. The army can only be expanded, it is impossible to shrink, and the researchers can only be more and not less, and it is impossible to reduce expenditure, and it seems that we have only one way to open source.

So be it! This year, there is no war for the time being, and the workers who manufacture arms and weapons can be temporarily vacated, and our company will develop two new civilian products! ”

"Your Majesty, what is the product? It has to be a bestseller, and it has to be fast, the company needs money too much. ”

"This ...... The first option is a bicycle! With our company's existing technical reserves, it should be developed quickly, and it is also the best means of transportation for the people. ”

"Bikes? Then do you need to develop power? ”

"It doesn't need power, it relies on human feet to pedal, its speed can catch up with the carriage, about 15 kilometers per hour, it can not only fitness, but also convenient travel, I believe that the public will enthusiastically buy it."

"That's good, it's not complicated, right?"

"It's very simple, it took me a few days to draw the design, with the drawings, the manufacturing is very simple, there are no complicated parts, and it can be manufactured in large quantities almost immediately.

You immediately start to vacate the factory, and prepare workers, it should be able to go on sale within this month, you still have to find a good seller, just do it! ”

"Your Majesty, what about another product?"

"This ...... Let's go to the player list! The clock department under the mechanical R&D department has been researching clocks for a long time, and there should be results, and our first product is to make a watch! ”

"Watches? Is it on the hand? ”

"Yes, if we choose high-grade stainless steel and gold and other precious materials for the shell, it is not only a precious craft, but also can watch the time, I believe the people will like it very much."

"Good! These two products are very good, mainly simple, we have a technical foundation, don't bother a lot, Wechen will start preparing immediately, Wechen retires! ”

"Hmmm! Go ahead! ”

Bicycles, watches, and sewing machines are the three favorite items of the people in the eighties of New China, and there are no sewing machines for the time being, mainly because there is no time and energy to do it, and it is not very complicated. Even if there were, it would not be sold to the people, and the Far Eastern Kingdom did not engage in the self-reliance of small families, but emphasized the division of labor and specialization, and sewing machines would definitely be sold to garment factories in the future.

Everyone is self-reliant, commerce and industry are basically dead, the people don't need it, they can still live to have ghosts.

Clocks and watches are definitely precision products in the eyes of ordinary people, but in fact, they are very simple in the eyes of professional mechanical researchers.

Ordinary clocks and watches only have three sets of time-adjusting gears, namely clocks, minutes, and seconds, which are 60 times the system, and are not complicated to develop.

The watch research group has also already produced finished products, but the entire ship research project has not yet officially started manufacturing, and it is still early, so they are constantly improving.

Just one appearance, I don't know how many design drawings have been drawn, some have been killed directly, and some have been trial-produced.

After all, a clock is a timer, the most important thing is to be accurate, how long the difference is one second is its technical grade division standard, this is a field that can be infinitely improved, if Yang Wenli does not ask for it, they can continue to improve.

Yang Wenli is a reborn, of course, he skipped products such as large table clocks and pocket watches, and directly studied watches, and automatic mechanical watches, those large and useless things, the precision is too low, there is no research value.

The accuracy of clocks and watches, in addition to the relationship between the process and the material, the process has been mentioned above, and the Far Eastern Kingdom is not inferior to future generations, so there is no difficulty in terms of manufacturing process alone.

Most of the parts in the watch are made by turning the blank on the automatic lathe, and then going through multiple processing processes, and finally polishing, quenching, tempering and electroplating. There are more than 200 processing processes in the watch, each of which has to go through stamping blanking, milling, drilling, finishing and other processing processes, and finally plating a layer of nickel-cobalt alloy on the splint to prevent rust and increase beauty. The escape wheel, pallet fork and balance wheel are the key parts in the watch, and the quality of the watch has a great impact, so it should be strictly handled in the processing. All parts of the watch are inspected or sampled, and then the watch is assembled in a clean workshop.

This set of complex and strict production process, suitable for any machinery manufacturing industry, is not unique to watches, this is Yang Wenli to see that later generations of China is a lack of ingenuity, so that the products made in China have become synonymous with cheap quality, he learned from the pain, from the beginning of the emphasis on the spirit of ingenuity, carefully built each process, especially fire, tempering, quenching and tempering treatment, but also painstaking research, so no matter the process, or material treatment have achieved the top level.

That's why there are more than 1,000 processes in total, but the technician department doesn't find it that difficult, because they have such strict requirements and are used to making every product.

The importance of materials to any product is self-evident, such as the rudder in the watch, it is a semi-circular disk, due to the limitations of the watch, it is very light and thin, its center of gravity is almost all on the outer edge, the heavier its outer edge, the greater the winding force, and vice versa, so it cannot be ordinary steel, it must be a metal with a large specific gravity, at least the part of the outer edge should be this special metal.

The second is the clockwork, as we all know, metal also has fatigue, but the clockwork is to be rolled up and relaxed around the clock, and ordinary metal is not competent at all.

These materials are the secrets of the major watch manufacturers in later generations, which depends on the material department to study.

In short, it is easy to make a watch, but it is difficult to be both precise and durable, and it is only natural that the horology development team is constantly improving.

……

Genius one second to remember the address of this site:. Mobile version reading URL: m.