Chapter 40: The Fountain of Time

"Never betray", which is for Lionel? Rothschild and the Marquis of Dalhousie, the Viceroy of India, satirized their attempt to disgrace the influence of the company's founders in the British Telegraph Company.

"Never fight because of the advantage of words", that was given to him by Downing.

The Knights of the Round Table was a huge success, with hundreds of cars being rented out every day, and newspapers pondering the implications of the brand's admonition. Tsk, who said that our great inventors are uneducated tyrants? The name of this Knights of the Round Table makes a lot of sense.

Downing used this self-evident way to show himself as a noble knight, which was quite artistic, ornamental and persuasive, and put great pressure on Lionel, who was preparing for the lawsuit.

Some people may not understand why a financier can have so much government influence and prestige. You must know that the Rothschild family has pan-European credit, the reason why the Duke of Wellington was able to defeat Napoleon the Great, the financial victory played a very important role, which mainly relied on the Rothschild family to raise gold in Europe This hard currency to gather global resources against Napoleon the Great, when fighting the European war, the currencies of various countries, including the pound, became bad, only gold is a hard currency. This family made the British Empire a super, at least for the moment, more important than Downing in the eyes of the British government at this time. Rothschild is a financial empire, a big family, controlling a considerable number of parliamentarians, and even the authority of the Anglican Church dares to challenge the bulls. And although Tang Ning's talent is outstanding, he is just a young man who has been alone all his life, and he may not even have a daughter-in-law and a mixed-race weirdo of Chinese descent.

In order to win back public opinion, Lionel began to command the newspapers of the partnership to hype up Downing's naturalization of Swiss nationality, accusing the baron, who was made by Her Majesty the Queen, of not knowing his patriotism and going to Zurich to run a large industry, not only to reprimand, but also to bring to justice. There are indeed many laws in the UK that protect technology from leakage, but Downing's case is a little different, he is his own technology, not the technology of the British, and it is really difficult to deduct the charge of commercial espionage on his head.

Downing still did not join the war of words, but took the prototype of the "Leica" camera to Windsor Castle to visit the Queen's family. By the way, they were presented to the Queen's family, including the royal husband, Princess Victoria (the same name as her mother, 12 years old), Prince Edward (Prince, 11 years old), Princess Alice (9 years old), Prince Alfred (8 years old), and Princess Helena (6 years old), a total of 7 Round Table Rider bicycles. Princess Louise is only 4 years old, so forget it. Pay attention to the birth interval of princesses and princes, Her Majesty the Queen can really give birth, no wonder she can become the "old grandmother of Europe".

Through a large number of newspaper reports, the queen's family has long been very interested in bicycles, but due to the big battle of travel, they have not got one for the time being, and this time there are 7 cars, and the queen's family, like all ordinary people, is very happy to learn to ride under the guidance of Master Tangning. For a moment, the castle courtyard rang with the sound of bells, as if Santa Claus was passing by on a reindeer sleigh. In this extremely joyful process, Downing secretly took out the Leica prototype and captured the touching moments of the warm family of the royal family.

Work secretly, don't shoot a gun. It is only possible in this era, because the preparation and phototaking process of daguerreotype photography in this era is extremely complicated and cumbersome, the equipment is heavy like a mountain, and the requirements for light are extremely high.

The Leica prototype with rangefinder technology was quite ingenious, but the prince noticed a certain baron's trick and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

A certain baron smiled mysteriously: "I'll tell you the answer tomorrow!" ”

Hey! It's kind of mysterious.

The Prince's Vice-Chancellor told Downing that his Fermat conjecture paper had been recognized and praised by the mathematicians at Cambridge University, and that the Vice-Chancellor could hire him as a professor of mathematics if he wished to do so.

Mathematics professor, what a noble position, of course to come one.

Prince: "So, do you have time to go to Cambridge to teach the students?" ”

Downing: "I can still have this time when I go to class for half a day to one day a week." ”

Prince Kiyuki: "That's good, I want to listen to your lessons, of course, preferably in radio and optics, you are the master in this area." ”

Downing: "Wait and see, I'm just as brilliant in math." ”

After Downing sent the Knights of the Round Table to the Queen's house, he did not stay to eat, and left in a hurry. And after he went back, he naturally wanted to test the interesting photos he had captured and wash them out in the darkroom. However, the next day, instead of going to Windsor Castle as promised, he went with the Prince to Cambridge University to meet his new colleagues.

Downing had been studying Cambridge for a long time, and only now became a professor, and finally got his wish, talking and laughing with the old scholars he admired. Among them, Babbage mathematics professor who studied mechanical computers talked the most, because Downing once boasted in front of the president that he wanted to invent mechanical computers, which was a job that Babbage was doing but was far from finishing.

Downing visited Babbage's spectacle of iron supercomputers, no, calculators, which were as large as dinosaurs, and were made by blacksmiths, and were extremely expensive. He looked at it for a full hour before he spoke: "Professor Babbage, have you ever heard of Legos?" ”

Babbage: "Well, I bought it for my grandson, and he loved it. ”

Downing laughed, "It's not just for children, I've heard that you have a lot of problems when you design a computer, because it's made of iron, and a little change will exhaust your blacksmith." I have an idea to build a lot of all the parts of your machine in the Lego building method, so that you can change it as you want until you optimize a more useful machine, and finally produce it...... In a month, I can build a little prototype and show you how much easier it is to make acetate parts than to use iron. ”

Babbage was amused: "Then wait for your good news." ”

Tang Ning took a pen and paper and took notes on the unformed bulky differential machine for more than ten minutes before Shi Shiran left.

It was not until the third day that Downing appeared at Windsor Castle, the most frequented place of the Queen's family, and as the royal power was transferred to the government and parliament after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the queen was the head of a country but rarely went to Buckingham Palace, and was the real nominal head of the United Kingdom.

Downing got out of the carriage with a beautiful gift box in his hand, storing small gifts for the Queen's family. Yes, he still sits in the carriage, because it is more spacious when he has something to carry, but the wheels of this carriage have of course been modified and pneumatic tires are used.

A small gift from the greatest inventor in the UK, I received a bicycle three days ago that made the children happy, and now I don't know what it will be.

It is indeed a small gift, three days ago Downing secretly captured the picture of the queen's family learning to bicycle, full color, innovative photo paper, 11-inch large photo.

The first is a happy picture of Princess Victoria grinning, Princess Sunshine, beautiful, very happy.

There are a total of 12 photos, and basically every member of the queen's family has a painting, and various expressions in the process of learning to drive happily are sincere and enthusiastic. This is an unprecedented color photograph, not only for royalty, but also for all of humanity. The photographs shown in Nature are static, but this time they are dynamic, marking a breakthrough in human photography.

Of course, the royal family is wealthy, and the world's largest diamond is not taken seriously, but such an epoch-making gift can only be given to them by the best inventors.

The children were amazed, and before they knew it, their pictures were filmed like this, which was amazing. Even the Queen's eyes are wide open, and this close-up capture is in place, and the image of the person is really like a clear blue wave of God's palm from the fountain of time. Realist painters can all retire.

Prince: "Wow, that's what you shot with that gadget that day?" It's amazing. ”

Downing: "Yes, I call it a Leica camera, and unfortunately, it's just a prototype, and it's not in mass production yet. ”

He knew that the principal would be interested in this thing, so he brought it with him, so he took it out and introduced how to use it.

It's just a small thing the size of a palm, and it can accomplish a feat that other people's broken cameras with the size of a footbasin can't accomplish.

Dual-light path rangefinder, variable exposure speed shutter, photosensitive film, mechanical automatic roll change, photo processing time only takes more than ten minutes, ultra-portable. All the parameters and solutions turned the daguerreotype into a pulp.

Downing explained the epoch-making nature of these moving images, saying: "I want to dedicate the honour of this portrait of the world's first moving photograph to Her Majesty, I wonder if it is appropriate for me to publish these images in the Telegraph?" ”

Her Majesty is so smart, Downing is advertising his bicycle, and if he agrees, he will become his advertising model! But refusal and reluctance, this is the world's first dynamic photo!

If he had asked His Royal Highness, he would have happily agreed, but the Queen had thought more, and now that the great inventor was in a lawsuit with several shareholders of the British Telegraph Company, if she had agreed to publish this photograph, I am afraid that the subjects of the British Empire would have felt that Her Majesty was on Downing's side. Lionel attacked Downing with "unpatriotism", and if the queen stood by Downing's side, Lionel's spear would immediately break. I'm afraid this is the original intention of this genius and all-rounder.