Scrooge came to New York, not just to bring Dorothea to see Duck Castle, he actually had an important thing to do. It was here that they would carry out the world's first radio communication across the ocean.

However, the so-called first time is not the first time at all, the real first time is really yàn, and it was quietly completed half a month ago. However, at that time, first, Scrooge was still in the south, and second, the real first test was still uncertain about the effect of the experiment, so I didn't dare to find reporters and advertise anything.

The fact that the first realizations were almost perfect success proves that the idea of communication through guò Tianbo is entirely feasible. And the success of such long-distance communication naturally means that this new technology can enter the practical stage and can be used to build companies to make money.

In this case, the real-life demonstration of this technology must be as sensational as possible. So as early as a week ago, Scrooge had already had people publicize it in major newspapers. Therefore, on the day of the real yàn, the area around the originally scheduled real yàn venue was already crowded with people, including both the staff of the MacDonald consortium and the reporters of various newspapers, and of course, at any time, the number of onlookers who did not know the truth was always the largest.

Because there were too many people, when Scrooge took Dorothea to the actual location, he encountered a traffic jam, and in the end, it took another half an hour to pass through the crowd and enter the test site.

"Why are there so many people?" Dorothea said, "Are northerners so interested in science? "Well, since she saw the pool of gold coins made using optical principles in the duck burger, Dorothea has also become interested in such a fun thing as science.

"Ah, Dorothea, that's understandable." "You know, most of the so-called middle class people have a very boring spare time. For example, what can you do after work? The book is too expensive, buy one or two copies, read it all at once, flip it over and over, but you can memorize it, it's no longer interesting. Going to the theater? That's not something everyone can afford. In this way, there is something new, and a large group of people are watching, which is really too common. ”

At this time, Edison and Maxwell had also arrived. Scrooge walked over to greet Maxwell and introduce him to his fiancée, Dorothea.

However, Maxwell's mind is not here, not even on this reality. Because he had long known about the situation last time, this time he appeared here, completely advertising for the school.

"Oh, Scrooge, it's great to meet you, I've been having a problem lately about blackbody radiation. Hell, I don't think I have a clue. Maybe you have some ideas? Maxwell said.

"Ah, Mr. Maxwell, I don't know anything about it, and I can't help you with it." Scrooge quickly shook his head.

"Ah, that's a shame." Maxwell pulled out an envelope and said to Scrooge, "Well, by the way, knowing you're coming, I've written my questions and some of my thoughts in it, and you can go back and look at it, maybe you'll be inspired?" ”

"Okay then." Scrooge took the envelope a little reluctantly.

……

"You seem to be a little afraid of Mr. Maxwell?" When Maxwell was gone, Dorothea whispered beside Scrooge.

"yes, you don't know how terrible Mr. Maxwell is, and the thought of all his mathematical derivations makes me feel a little bigger in my head." As for Dorothea's statement, Scrooge honestly admitted it.

"But I think Mr. Maxwell must be a very kind man." Dorothea said.

At this time, Edison walked over and greeted Scrooge: "Hello, Mr. MacDonald. ”

"Ah, Mr. Edison, how about you, when does the real yàn start?" Scrooge asked.

"Right now, ah, you see, Mr. Macdonald, it's already begun." Edison said, pointing over there.

Scrooge looked over and saw a man flying a giant centipede-shaped kite.

"What is this for?" Dorothea asked.

"This is to make the antenna a little higher." Edison replied.

The kite rose higher and higher with the antenna, until it reached a height of several hundred meters. At this time, the huge kite looks like a small black dot from the ground.

"When the time comes, they should be ready for it." Edison said, "Let's start sending signals over there." ”

The so-called "their side" means, of course, Britain across the Atlantic. There's a bunch of people over there doing the same thing.

A telegraph operator used a wireless telegraph to shoot the following signal: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. "This is the Old Testament?? The first sentence in the Book of Genesis. Scrooge chose this chapter because he wanted to use it to show the significance of this reality to the greatness of mankind.

According to the actual setting, once the British side receives the signal, it will reply the corresponding message to the United States. Sure enough, it didn't take long for the telegraph here to start coming out of the sound of "tick tick tick", which was a call back from the Atlantic side. Almost in the blink of an eye, the call back was translated: "The earth is empty and chaotic, the abyss is dark, and the Spirit of God moves on the waters." ”

"Call them back again!" Scrooge ordered.

So the telegraph operator took out the last preset message: "God said, Let there be light, and there was light." ”

……

"And God said, Let there be light, and there was light."

On the other side of the Atlantic, in England, there were also large groups of people. When the final signal was confirmed, the crowd cheered.

"Your Royal Highness, the transoceanic communication is very successful." Knight Lawrence reported to Prince Albert.

In the original history, Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, died of typhoid fever at the end of 1861. However, in this time and space, although the prince also contracted typhoid fever at the end of 1861, he escaped from the hands of death by using sulfonamides in large quantities. Still, the near-death experience frightened Prince Albert and his wife, Queen Victoria. At the Queen's urging, Prince Albert reduced his involvement in political affairs, and the Queen couple have rarely been seen in the public eye over the years. On many occasions, they were replaced by their son, Crown Prince Edward, who would later become King Edward VII. Prince Albert has an unusual love for science, and after hearing the news about this reality, he is naturally very interested. However, it was not convenient for him to go and see the reality in person, so he sent Lawrence Knight to find out the situation.

"Lawrence, do you know what this means?" Prince Albert asked.

"This will bring great wealth," Lawrence said, "and real-time communication between the two sides of the Atlantic will make it easier to do business between the new Big 6 and the old Big 6." With that, our Mr. MacDonald doesn't know how much money he can make. Lawrence Knight replied.

"Lawrence, since your niece married into the MacDonald's house, you've become more and more obsessed with money every day." Prince Albert laughed, "When you think about anything, the first thing that comes to mind is money." ”

"Huh." Lawrence also laughed, "Your Royal Highness, you have to understand that people love money more and more as they get older. ”

"No kidding." Prince Albert said, "Can you tell what this means of communication to our country?" Well, Edward, what do you have to say? ”

"Father, I think with this, our control over those overseas territories will be greatly strengthened." "Overseas territories like India, in particular, are extremely important to the United Kingdom, but it takes a long time for news of what happened there to reach Britain, and by the time we make a decision," said Prince Edward, "and so on, it is very important to the United Kingdom, but it takes a long time for us to make a decision. For example, in the Indian rebellion of the past, if we had such technology at that time, we would have been able to react and suppress the rebellion as soon as it appeared. ”

"Well, that's a good point." The Prince of Alber nodded slightly, "Anything else?" ”

Prince Edward thought for a moment and said, "And the navy, if all the warships of the navy have this, we can mobilize the naval forces at any time according to the new information we have, even if they are thousands of miles away. It's so useful......"

"Well, that's a good point. Lawrence, you should already understand what this means to the United Kingdom. Now, we have to get our hands on its patents quickly......"

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However, not all of them were encouraged by this reality, and in the crowd of onlookers, there were also a few people whose faces turned pale.

"Field, what can I do?" One person asked.

"What else can I do? Our plan, our years of hard work, are all over. The man named Field said dejectedly. For many years he had been working hard to lay a cable across the Atlantic, and in 1858 he even succeeded in laying such a cable, which at first did not fail him, and a single word of the price of gold from England could benefit him by up to a thousand dollars (transoceanic telegraph cables were slow to deliver messages because it took one to two minutes to transmit a single letter of signal attenuation). However, the good times were short-lived, and after just over two weeks, the cable was no longer able to send any signal - investigations showed that more than 2,000 volts of voltage applied to allow the signal to travel thousands of kilometers had broken through the cable. All the qiē that he worked so hard to manage was soaked in the soup.

But that didn't knock Field down, he started from scratch again, working on a new cable plan, he contacted scientists, engineers, solved one technical problem after another, and now just when he was ready to fight again, there was such a real thing. Yes, it's just a real yàn, in order to be able to communicate with the other side of the ocean, they have to use a kite to raise the antenna to a height of hundreds of meters. Obviously, every time the time is scheduled, it is not realistic to raise the kite. However, Field understands that this is not a big problem, and that it is much easier to build a tower hundreds of meters above ground than to lay a cable across the Atlantic. Moreover, the degree of wireless telegraphy receiving messages was much greater than that of his cable. Perhaps he should be glad that his second cable had not yet been laid when the experiment was successful. However, in any case, the money he invested in it will never be rewarded, and in fact, from the moment Scrooge's real yàn succeeds, he has become a penniless poor man. Field turned his head in solitude, leaving the bustling crowd and preparing to go home. At this moment, a man stopped him.

"Are you Mr. Field, who used to lay transoceanic cables?" The man asked.

"yes, what's the matter?" Phil's asked.

"Mr. MacDonald is interested in your efforts and would like to talk to you."