Chapter 26 The Mechanical Level of the Ming Dynasty

Sun Yi of the heavy industry steel industry can't help, and Sun Yi of the light industry machinery industry can't get involved. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The mechanical level of the Ming Dynasty has actually accumulated to a fairly advanced height, taking cotton textile as an example, the Ming Dynasty has fully realized mechanization.

The first step in cotton spinning was to drop the cotton seeds, and the Ming Dynasty people had rolling wheels.

The rolling mill is composed of two rollers installed on the frame, the upper is a small diameter iron shaft, the lower is a large diameter wooden shaft, the two shafts are rocked by the rocker arm, and rotate in opposite directions. When the cotton is fed into the gap between the two axles and rolled, the cotton seeds are squeezed out and left behind, and the lint quilt drives the front. The rolling mill completely changed the backwardness of peeling seeds by hand or rolling them out with an iron rod.

The second step of cotton spinning is to play cotton.

The thick rope string of the big bow more than 1 meter long, the vertebrae made of sandalwood, and the string is played with cotton: "bang-bang-".

The third step is spinning.

The spinning wheels of the Ming Dynasty were hand-cranked, pedal-driven, animal-driven or water-driven, and the number of spinning spindles ranged from one spindle, three spindles, five spindles to thirty-two spindles, far from the gap of dozens of streets in Europe at the same time.

The fourth step is to weave the cloth.

There were many kinds of looms in the Ming Dynasty, in addition to ordinary waist looms and flat looms, there were also bias looms, vertical looms, Luo looms, and jacquard looms.

The flower type jacquard machine, also known as the flower building, is the highest achievement of ancient weaving technology.

When weaving the flower building, two people cooperate, one person is the flower worker, sitting on the three-foot high flower floor to pull the flower and raise the comprehensive, and one person steps on the weft to weave. Wang Yi of the Eastern Han Dynasty has a poem in "The Fu of the Machine Woman": "The slender and quiet woman, the meridian of the meridian, shakes and tosses, and pitches up and grows."

To weave different patterns, you only need to change different flowers.

Hanamoto is made of foot threads representing warp threads and ear threads representing weft threads. In the view of programmer Sun Yi, this is to convert the pattern information into a two-dimensional machine language, which is no different from the principle of later CNC machine tools.

According to the literature, the Qing Dynasty had 30,000 Yunjin Flower Towers dedicated to the royal family in Nanjing!

――With such a light industrial machinery base, what can a layman do?

Sun Yi and the stuffy man unknowingly walked to the crop field outside the camp.

While he was pondering something, the sullen man went to a puddle and pressed a long wooden pole to water the cornfield.

The long pole rests in the middle of a standing log, with a bucket tied to one end and a large stone to the other. The stuffy man lowered the end of the bucket by hand to get water, and then used the weight of the stone to lift the bucket full of water, and shook the wooden pole to send the bucket to the distant canal to emptie it out, which seemed to be effortless at all. - The perfect lever principle.

Sun Yi borrowed water and washed his face.

Sun Yi commented: "This thing is very ingenious! ”。

Stuffy introduced: "This is called orange tree." ”

Tangerine water intake has been quite common as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, which has lasted for thousands of years, and is a common water lifting appliance in rural China.

Another ancient water-intake device was invented in China more than 1,100 years ago. By the Spring and Autumn period, it had become popular and was still widely used in rural China in the 1970s. In the industrial aspect, there are also those that use ox power to drive the wheels, and then install other tools to dig wells or draw brine.

The orange trees and rollers are perfect examples of engineering, with simple construction, low cost and easy maintenance.

Ancient Chinese water conservancy machinery representatives also have overturned cars and cylinder cars.

The dumper, also known as the keel waterwheel, was the most famous agricultural irrigation machinery in ancient China. The overturning car can be hand-cranked, pedaled, ox-turned, water-turned, or wind-turned. The keel blades are used as chains, lying in rectangular long grooves, and the body is inclined to the river or pond. The lower sprocket and part of the body were submerged in the water. When the sprocket is driven, the blade rises along the trough and sends the water out to the upper end of the long trough. In this way, the continuous circulation can transport the water to the place where it is needed, and the water can be continuously taken in, with high efficiency, easy handling, and the water intake point can be transferred in time. The principle of chain drive is the same as that of bicycle and tank tracks.

The cylinder is a wheel-shaped water lifting machine made of bamboo or wood. The bamboo or wooden tube is filled with water, and when the wheel turns to the upper part, the water automatically pours into the water tank and enters the field. The water cylinder of the water drum car is integrated with the water wheel, which is not only the driving component of receiving water power, but also the working component of lifting and pouring water, the mechanism is concise and compact, and the design concept is ingenious.

Through the water mill and wind mill that boasted in the novel that made the jaws of the ancients drop their jaws, if Sun Yi took it out as a treasure, it is estimated that the jaws of the Ming Dynasty people would not be shocked, but laughed.

According to the literature, in the Ming Dynasty, there was a kind of eight-sail car ship in the Yangtze River, which was fixed on an octagonal column by eight vertical sails, which could automatically adjust the angle of the sail to the wind, and the incoming wind from any direction could drive the column, and then it was transmitted to the pulp wheel to push the ship forward.

- Wind Turbines!

-- This is the level of machinery that can be used in the Ming Dynasty!

In terms of mechanical technology, Sun Yi really can't get involved.

As long as he could simply provide an environment in which these existing technologies could be developed, the Ming Dynasty would be able to revive themselves!!