Halfway through, Helton wanted to stop by Persia, which could also be a potentially important customer.

The Russians seized millions of square kilometers of land from the Persians in three wars, but did not fulfill its intention of gaining a permanent temperate outlet to the sea. The British did everything to stop the Russians, even going into battle themselves. They know very well how much trouble it will cause to the Russian bear to dominate its maritime supremacy if it is allowed to run out to sea.

By this time, Persia had been completely divided between Britain and Russia, and according to the agreement, the Russians controlled the northern part and the British controlled the southern part of Persia, and the Anglo-Russian game made the declining empire fortunate to survive.

Captain Hansel promptly dissuaded Lechelton from this unrealistic idea, and the security of the Kaja dynasty could no longer be described as bad, and it was said that even in Tehran, no one dared to take to the streets at night.

But this was not the main reason, according to legend, King Naser-al-Din had about 2,000 wives, but he could not afford to arm his army, and even had to borrow money from the British and Russians to survive. On the other hand, the British had already acquired almost all of South Persia prospecting rights, and it was not easy to buy them from the British, and King Nasser al-Din could not be the master of this.

Heldon would obviously be a little disappointed, but there was nothing he could do.

After leaving the Gulf of Aden, the warship continued towards Malacca.

Lechelton met Major Rotzner in the warship's reading room, and the two soon became friends.

Rozner was the first officer of the Apal, and Helden was reading an interesting article on the application of steam turbines written by a Frenchman in the German magazine Naval Lookout, so he sat down in a leather chair and read it with great interest.

At this time, it happened that Mark. Major Rozner walked in, and he was looking for an article in this magazine, so the two men talked.

A graduate of the Royal Second Naval School of Mechanical Engineering in Bora, Rozner worked as a naval architect in the Naval Shipbuilding Division, which was of great interest to Lee Hayden.

The two involuntarily turned to the Austro-Hungarian protective cruiser "Empress Elizabeth", which was being built by the Austro-Hungarian Parliament, and the development of the Austro-Hungarian Navy had been slow due to lack of funds. Although the Imperial Navy once won the first naval war in the age of steam ironclads, the time is gone, and now the weak Imperial Navy is far behind the old enemy Italian Navy.

As early as 1882, the Italians built two "King Umbato" class ironclads with a displacement of more than 13,000 tons and two 343 mm guns, which reversed the decline caused by the defeat in the Battle of Lisa in one fell swoop and became an important force to be reckoned with at sea.

Rozner was quite dissatisfied with the performance of the "Queen Elizabeth", at a time when the British had already begun to build "Sovereign" class battleships with a displacement of more than 14,000 tons using all-steel armor, while the Austro-Hungarian Navy was still struggling with the budget for building a 4,000-ton protective cruiser.

"If we encounter the Italian Navy again, it is estimated that our fleet will not even have the strength to fight back." Lehedon said with a wry smile that he didn't have any deep feelings for the Imperial Navy, but it seemed that with a strong navy, it was easier to get orders from abroad. You know, the sale of warships is a large arms business, and it is very profitable.

"Since the fools in the Magyars council are unwilling to allocate more money to the navy, we will have to use our brains a little more on the technical side." "In fact, because we rarely build new warships, we are on the verge of falling behind in naval technology." ”

"I believe that new technologies and inventions are built up by numbers and mistakes, and without enough practice, it is impossible to build advanced warships based on imagination alone." LeHayton nodded, then lit a cigar, in fact he had a clear idea of the future direction of the capital ship. Since the appearance of dreadnoughts, overnight, all the main warships of the world will become obsolete, in fact, Austria-Hungary still has time.

Now it seems that the current slow development of the Imperial Navy is not a bad thing.

What needs to be done now is to prepare for a rainy day and start research in advance, and perhaps the Imperial Navy may become the first country to be equipped with such a new type of capital ship with overwhelming superiority.

A battleship with a unified caliber of "all-heavy main guns"? LeHydon didn't want to come up with this concept so early, thinking that more than 40 capital ships built by the British and more than 20 capital ships built by the French and Italians at great expense had all turned into defective products overnight, and Lechelton couldn't help but want to laugh.

Turning the subject to the magazine he was reading, Rotzner's specialty was actually marine power, that is, the manufacture of boilers and steam engines, and to his surprise, Rotzner also studied electric motors and steam turbine engines.

Before the invention of the steam engine, the main source of power in the textile and flour processing industries was the water turbine, and the windmill mills that can be found all over Europe are an ancient wind turbine. The oldest steam turbines were built by scientists long before the invention of the steam engine, and of course, it was just a simple device that allowed steam from the nozzle of a kettle to turn the blades.

The modern concept of steam turbines appeared in the seventies of the nineteenth century, but due to the problem of rotational speed, it could not be put into practical commercial application until the invention of the generator. The high speed of the steam turbine was perfectly combined with the requirements of the generator, and in fact it was even more than 100 years later, when the steam turbine remained the main power plant in thermal and even nuclear power plants.

Lee Haydon's "Steyer. Mann Power itself was building some steam turbines to power the generators that his electrical company made, but no one had been able to put them on board yet, although there were quite a few who wanted to.

"What's the difficulty?" Lehydon asked.

"In terms of speed, the speed of the steam turbine is 1500 to 2000 revolutions per minute, while the speed of the marine propeller needs to be low to increase the thrust, usually 120 to 360 revolutions, otherwise the power attenuation is too great." Rotzner said.

"It's not a big problem, and it can be achieved with a guò reducer."

"Here's the problem, it's very difficult to process high-precision gears, and it's hard to find a ship to do it, even if it's a small boat, it takes tens of thousands of crowns, and ordinary researchers can't afford it."

"If you're interested in this, I'd love to help." LeHayton smiled and said that it was several years before the Englishman Parsons put the steam turbine on the ship, and now his Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company has not yet been established.

Perhaps, there will be no more of that famous "Transnia" in this era?

Anything that disgusted the British was something he was willing to do, and he enjoyed it.

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