Downing had a special preference for transportation as a medium that brought humanity to freedom. In wild Africa, he also had to design a special vehicle for it, and it would be unique. This time, the goal is to bring Africa, which is very closed to traffic, to the sky of infinite freedom. In order to make this tool cheap enough, he also copycat a French powered paraglider.

It's cheap enough, but it's good enough to beat any terrain. His goal was to make a ten-pound powered paraglider that was safe enough to be used as a means of daily transport. Ten pounds was also a lot of money for Africans, and in the early days of the terror only chiefs could afford it, so it was simply named "Chief's Wings".

The French power paraglider has several problems: first, its propeller is too loud. The French made it the size of a big fan, and in order to have enough thrust, they must have to turn it so hard that it was annoying, and if the street was full of such noise, it would make people feel strong enough to knock it down with guns. So the first one is to solve the noise problem. Haven't you ever seen a windmill make a terrible noise? That's because it's big enough. Downing wanted to design a propeller for the Chieftain's Wing, which was large enough, about two meters in diameter, and you wouldn't find it noisy at full speed, about 50 kilometers per hour. In order to achieve a relatively low weight at such a diameter, this time a new material carbon fiber composite material will be used.

The diameter of carbon fiber is many times smaller than that of human hair, it is a high-grade variety of chemical fiber, and the reinforced plastic made of carbon fiber is strong and light, resistant to high temperature, radiation, water and corrosion, and the petrochemical plant in Singapore has long been developing it, because its properties are very suitable for making windmill blades, helicopter fuselages, etc.

The second problem with French paragliding is that the propeller is located at the bottom of the large canopy, which can easily get out of control when accelerating. Downing's design will place the propeller's thrust center of gravity in the middle of the whole, and it will smoothly propel the paraglider as a whole.

French paragliding is still a crappy design that relies on the human body to run wildly to achieve take-off, and the chiefs are not young, okay? Unable to withstand such a toss from the French, Downing designed a similar self-balancing uniwheel system for paragliding. When in town, the paraglider can be used directly except for the huge propeller that gets in the way, but it also has an extra steering wheel.

With the system, it is very convenient to take off, and for the sake of safety, its take-off acceleration curve is fixed, and even a beginner who can't drive it is easy to maneuver the Chief's Wings to take off. In the same way, its deceleration and descent curve is also fixed, and anyone can land safely on flat ground, which is the most important part of the safety of the Down paraglider compared to the French paraglider.

In the air attitude, if the pilot does not give the landing command, it will automatically maintain a certain speed when it is fully fueled to allow the paraglider to glide in the air, and there will be no crash for no reason. Ten minutes when the fuel is about to run out, there will be a red light flashing on the steering wheel that the pilot will not miss.

The Chief's Wings can fly at speeds of up to 50 km/h3. Five hours, or a maximum range of 175 kilometres, allowed the chiefs to soar freely within the economic circle of 150 kilometres, which is probably more than most chiefs' "domains".

The aircraft can often take the owner to unexpected places and encounter unexpected dangers, therefore, it has a radiolocation system and can send out a distress signal, which is divided into two types: one is red, which represents danger; The second is yellow, which means that you need help, but there is no danger to your life for the time being. The African Development Bank's patrol airship will be responsible for rescuing pilots in the event of an accident.

The development of this aircraft was in Munich, but the production plant was gloriously located on the shore of Lake Victoria in the middle of the East and West Rift, a city called "Kampala" (Uganda), where British colonists had visited, and was selected by Downing as the first port city to be developed.

To promote Chief's Wings, it offers a free trial machine for each tribe, and there is also a discount of just £5 for the first year for purchasers.

Kampala is blessed with spectacular scenery and an abundance of wildlife, but the most terrifying thing is the venomous snake that often burrows into the homes of ordinary people. To this end, the city planning centering on the headquarters of the African Development Bank has developed a fully concrete plaza without a landscaped garden, and a wire fence with dense mesh holes has been built around the city. It is very difficult for venomous snakes to climb through dense web fences, and even if they do, they are easy to spot. Windsor Hospital is even more anxious to find the species of venomous snakes, so as to research life-saving antivenom as soon as possible.

Downing's story of building a loose factory in Africa attracted the attention of a large number of lazy workers, who broadcast to the newspapers that working in a factory was too tiring and not as good as an African. In particular, the two countries of the Qing Dynasty and Italy would like to see their own countries have such a comfortable way of working, and it is not that they are completely the same as Africa, at least they can choose another way of life when the factory situation is not low.

This makes sense, in any case, Downing has decided to try to reform the high-intensity assembly line, the first step is to transform a single type of assembly line workers into three types, roughly speaking, workers take turns to play three roles throughout the day, one is to stand and work, one is to sit and work, and the other is to watch the machine like a supervisor. If possible, you can also use one mainly with your hands, another with your feet, and the third with your eyes. Each of the three types of work is done for a period of time, which greatly improves the quality of life of the workers.

In fact, mastering three kinds of work is no different from one, it is just a little more learning, so it is theoretically feasible and has been unanimously praised by the trade unions. Soon after the Downing experiment began, the Soviet Union introduced laws mandating workers to work in three positions, which was protested by many factory owners during the hearing, saying that some small factories really couldn't find three positions. In the end, the Soviet law was amended to provide at least two, one standing and one sitting, which is always okay, right?

The traditional assembly line also has a very hated place for workers, which requires workers to work at the same speed, otherwise the workers in the next process will fall into a state of no work to do, and when the capitalists are desperately pursuing efficiency, this forces workers to work at high intensity, which is very inhumane. Downing's next goal was to transform it into a loose one, where multiple workers upstream of the production line could provide products to multiple workers downstream at the same time, and the workers could work at their own discretion, with more wages for more work and less pay for less, learning from their comrades in Africa. Factories can also implement a system that guarantees wages within a certain range, which is more humane.

Downing also expressed a request to the designers of IKEA: ask them to design a very light chair that can be tied to the waist and hips, so that workers can sit down at any time, and some of the original high-intensity standing posture jobs can also be changed to "half standing and half sitting". The product was later so popular with Soviet factory owners that it seemed that such a chair would satisfy the demands of the demanding government.

What the workers love most about this big capitalist is that Downing not only implements policies in his own factories, but also exerts influence on upstream and downstream factories, but where the working conditions of workers are improved, their products will be purchased by Windsor companies first, and downstream manufacturers can get better prices. The Windsor consortium is doing this more efficiently than the government. Workers at the upstream and downstream manufacturers of the Windsor consortium quickly felt the huge impact of this reform. The working-class members of the British Parliament can only pay lip service but not such a strong force for reform, so Downing's Labour Party is more affectionate to the workers and is once again more likely to be in power in next year's election.

On the one hand, friendliness to the general staff has to keep up, and once again learn from the African factories, starting with the middle management, adding one and a half days a week to working from home, i.e. Monday and Tuesday mornings. This is because most people have Monday syndrome, so give a day and a half of working from home time to get employees into the work mood. Whether it's lazy at home or not, the company doesn't care. The entry-level of the LCD telegraph has now been reduced to £40 per year, which basically meets the needs of the management to meet at home.

There are also benefits for designers and engineers, and the company will allow them to use the company's equipment to start a business in their spare time, and the results will belong only to them, and the company will not have any requirements. As long as you invent something good, maybe you won't have to live a hard 9-to-5 life again, how can you not be motivated?

Soon, this benefit was in full swing, and the employees of Faraday Power Company invented the Lego brick socket, which could be layered on top of each socket and expanded, so that more and more electrical devices could get neat, stable electrical entrances, and they were so beautiful that only inventors who worked for themselves could use their greatest initiative to do such things.

Lin Fei herself likes this socket very much, and she also personally did marketing in Daqing, mailing "trial packs" to customers who have opened telegram payment, using them first, and if they think they are good, they will stay and pay later. This kind of gadget is very cheap, and the vast majority of customers who try it end up becoming paying users, and it doesn't cost a lot of money at all, do people who use telegraphs care about that little money?

Faraday Power was a pioneer in innovation, and soon, another engineer invented the solution of integrating Lego brick sockets directly into the plugs of electrical equipment, and he was also a citizen of the Qing Dynasty. Now you don't even need to buy extra sockets, every time you use the socket, you will add a socket, as long as you use the appliances of this scheme, the socket will be used more and more.

There is no doubt that both inventors relied on patents to live a happy life of slave owners who did not have to work and enjoyed their success, and encouraged by them, more and more people felt that being an engineer was happier than being a manager.

The concept of Lego was so used by Faraday Power's engineers that the engineers of Lego itself could not sit still, and an employee from the lowest level of the Qing Dynasty came up with the idea of designing the cheapest housing in history for the poor, and it was the building block method to build the house. In the rural areas of the Qing Dynasty, a large number of peasants bought bricks and tiles to build their own houses, and their construction level can be imagined, which could not be lower. Every time this project returned to his hometown, he saw those small houses that were very poor in appearance and solidity.

After meeting a brilliant engineer who graduated from the Daqing Architectural Guild School, they decided to work together to design the first LEGO building in history, aiming at a small self-built home of 10 to 60 square meters. Their innovation is mainly in the bricks themselves, imitating the style of building blocks, and farmers without any construction experience can also cobble together a house according to the appearance of Lego models, which is a structure designed by professionals, which is much more reliable than the previous houses built by farmers themselves. They also specifically modeled the name of the "Chief's Wing" and named the scheme "The Chief's House".

There are only three types of structures in the Chief's House: floor tiles, wall tiles, and roof tiles. All of them can be spliced, the size can be adjusted arbitrarily, as long as the length and width are determined, you can do it. These materials are almost as cheap as ordinary materials, but the design is different, and the hollow structure can be reinforced with steel cables, leaving room for water pipes, sewage pipes, and electrical wiring. The cheapest 10-square-metre Chief's House doesn't even need any of this, it's just the cheapest place to stay, so cheap that it's the price of buying a few bikes on the market.

This kind of ultra-cheap house won the grand prize of the Daqing Architectural Association School, and Tang Ning also noticed it, but he didn't expect that the people of the Daqing Dynasty could also create zào ability. It just so happened that the co-inventor in charge of the construction plan was also an employee of the "Great Wall Construction Company" (the real Great Wall builder) who worked for the Great Wall of Sand, and Downing even instructed the Great Wall Construction Company to make cheap loess bricks for this invention. They worked desperately to reduce the cost of bricks in order to create sturdy and cheap bricks, a match made in heaven for the House of the Chief.

The inventors of the Qing Dynasty, who used their ingenuity, actually built a building that was cheaper than the "thatched hut" invented by Tangning for Africans. After making a fortune because of the patent, the two inventors did not stop, continued to work hard, and further lowered the threshold of architectural art, inspired by the Lego company has an architectural model, which can be folded in a rectangle, which usually looks like a rectangle, easy to package, and can be opened directly to become a large model with three times the volume when appreciating, this process should be carefully considered.

The idea of being ready to use once opened sparked the enthusiasm of the two inventors, and what a wonderful time it would be if their Chief's House could be dropped off the truck and opened and ready to use.

Downing had already invented the building of a modular building that could be transported by truck, but it required huge trucks and cranes to install, and the folding house invented by these two invented only needed ordinary truck transportation, and the concept of simplicity and convenience was applied to the extreme, which seemed to be more convenient than buying a piece of furniture from IKEA, which is amazing. （http:／／.）。

This innovation boom with Downing's low participation continued to ferment, and a company that originated in the Qing Dynasty and whose business plate was no less than that of IKEA and Japanese mortise and tenon construction was born. Big cities like Shanghai and Guangzhou are home to a large number of young people who only need 30 to 50 square meters of space to live well, and they are the main consumer group of IKEA, and now they can even assemble the house itself.

Based on the needs of urban youth, starting from Shanghai and Guangzhou, there is a kind of real estate developer who only provides sorted land, and they directly sell or rent the appreciated land to urban youth who assemble small houses, and the business is quite prosperous.

The Qing Dynasty has shown signs of leading the world trend, and major cities around the world have emulated the "postmodernist architectural concept" of separating land from housing. As it turns out, it doesn't take rich countries to be at the top of the trend. The poor have the way of the poor, and as long as they live in freedom, their ability to innovate will not be suppressed. Beechcraft Tip: How to quickly search for the books you're looking for

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