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"Mr. MacDonald, the military has made an order for our wireless telegraphy. There are specific requirements for this. Elizabeth, Scrooge's new female secretary, put a copy of the paper on Scrooge's desk, "In addition, there has been great progress in the transformation of the motor in the Dashi yàn room, well, the relevant report is also here." ”

Elizabeth was originally Anna's assistant, well, yes, female secretaries also had assistants. Now that Anna is suddenly on vacation, Elizabeth naturally rises to the top and becomes Scrooge's female secretary.

Why Anna suddenly went on vacation, Elizabeth didn't know very well, but she could guess some.

In this era, daughters will be asked to come out to work as secretaries for others, and the family situation is generally quite poor. For example, Anna's father was originally a coal miner, and although the income was small, he was able to support his family. She even had the foresight to send Anna's brother to read some books, and it was at that time that Anna had learned twenty-six letters with her brother, barely able to read the old newspapers used to wrap things. But then, my father suddenly suffered a mining accident, and a long section of the mine suddenly collapsed, well, and then, my father was gone, and he didn't even find his body. There was no compensation, no compensation, not even the towels that my father had brought to the mine from home. So, of course, Anna's brother gave up his studies halfway, and he had to find a place to work - to work as a porter on the docks. As a result, the so-called disaster is not a one-way street, three months without pay (yes, you read that right, it is without pay. This is an agreement reached in an absolutely free free market, absolutely free, reasonable, and without any exploitation) Before the probationary period expired, he was broken in an inexplicable gangster brawl and became completely disabled. All of a sudden, the whole family was almost to the point of jumping Lake Erie en masse.

In order to save the family and support her mother and brother, Anna is even ready to be a despicable street girl. Fortunately, at this time, Anna, who was also somewhat literate, saw an advertisement for a female secretary at MacDonald's Infantry Weapons Company. So, like a drowning person who sees a straw floating on the water, Anna went to the interview with enthusiasm, and to her surprise, she was selected at once. In fact, this is normal, in this era, there are not many women who can read, and among these few people, there are even fewer who need to come out to find a job to support themselves and their families. That amount is probably less than the black and white bears that have sold cuteness for Sichuan and earned foreign exchange for the motherland in later generations. So although Anna could barely recognize a few words, she was chosen.

Elizabeth's story is not as tragic as Anna's, at least she doesn't have to think about who to feed. And she was educated even more systematically than Anna. Her problem was that she was legally a fugitive. Yes, Elizabeth's father was a white man—the butler of some Southern slave owner—but her mother was a black slave, and the slave's children were slaves, even if she had white skin.

Because of this white skin, Elizabeth still received a little preferential treatment, that is, she was given a certain opportunity to be educated. However, this is only an investment to sell her to a brothel for a better price in the future. Later, Elizabeth found an opportunity and fled to the north. It is said that his old master also hired a bounty hunter to capture her, and she later joined the MacDonald Infantry Weapons Company and worked as Anna's assistant to be safe.

"Elizabeth, you're from Mississippi." Scrooge asked.

"Yes, Mr. MacDonald." Elizabeth looked at Scrooge quizzically.

In fact, in terms of appearance alone, Elizabeth is not below Anna. Her eyes are not as big as Anna's, so blue, but they are just as divine, her facial features are also very delicate, plus she is waist-length maroon, and she is tall and tall, she is really a rare beauty. I just don't know if it's because of the lack of love when I was a child, so when I interact with others, I always unconsciously put on a posture of rejecting people thousands of miles away. Especially when faced with men. Now, for example, if Anna were to deliver the materials, she would definitely be standing at a foot or so away from Scrooge's desk, but Elizabeth was not like that, she always had a habit of taking a step back after putting down the text, and the distance between her and Scrooge was close to three meters.

"Maybe it won't be long before you can go back to Mississippi." Scrooge smiled, "The war won't last long, and the South is finished." How about it, do you want to go back and see it? ”

"I don't think very much," said Elizabeth, "the South doesn't make any good impression on me. I don't want to see that place again at all. ”

"Ah, yes, you know? In the coming period, the Mississippi will be struck by a devastating blow, 'the earth will be turned up like a potter's wheel, the robbers will become masters of wealth,' the plantations of yesteryear will be burned to ashes, and the history of knights and ladies will be lost with the wind. So, even if you go back, the Mississippi will no longer be the Mississippi you remember. Scrooge said.

"If so," said Elizabeth, "then I would be very eager to see it." It's just Mr. MacDonald, what are you going to do there? A rare smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

"Oh, since someone is destroying them, someone has to rebuild them. Of course, I'm going to rebuild the South. There's a big deal here. "I need an assistant who knows a lot about it." ”

"Yes, Mr. MacDonald. But it's been a while since I left Mississippi, and a lot of things may have changed. Elizabeth thought for a moment and replied.

"I know a lot more than I do." Scrooge smiled and said, "Miss Elizabeth, go make me another cup of strong tea." ”

"Okay." Elizabeth turned and walked out.

Scrooge opened the text and began to read it......

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"Elizabeth is beautiful, isn't she?" Anna asked with a smirk.

"Where can we compare to our Anna?" Scrooge walked over to Anna, sat down, and reached out to gently caress her slightly bulging abdomen.

"Come less!" Anna stretched out her hand and gently patted Scrooge's hand, "If you don't tell the truth, there must be a ghost in your heart!" ”

"Woman, what a ...... If you say that Elizabeth is pretty, then she will definitely be angry that you dare to praise other women for being beautiful in front of her, but if you say that you are not pretty, she thinks that you are deliberately covering up something. Scrooge thought this and shook his head.

"Okay, don't shake your head, seriously, Elizabeth is indeed a big beauty." Anna smiled, "You can walk with me." ”

……

"Mr. Edison, how's your motor doing?" Scrooge asked Edison.

"Mr. MacDonald, you see, I've made a prototype." Edison proudly showed Scrooge a new motor.

"It looks a lot smaller." Scrooge said.

"It's smaller, but it's actually a lot more efficient. Now the output current of this motor is stable after running, and the current strength and stability can almost be compared with the battery pack. It is much more convenient to carry and use than a battery pack. Edison said as he gently stroked the motor as if he were a child of his own.

"So what's going on with the announcement, especially how has the problem of communication distance been solved?" Scrooge asked. After the newspaper reported the success of the wireless telegraph test, General Grant and General Sherman almost immediately realized the military significance of this Ming. Immediately a request for equipment was made to the government. However, at present, the wireless telegraph is actually very immature, and in order to sell it to the army, it must also solve a series of problems including communication distance, mechanical reliability, mechanical weight, etc.

"We've tried to drive it with a new motor, and we've used a longer antenna, and we're now able to deliver a steady signal over a 20-mile range without blocking. However, there are still many problems in terms of miniaturization. Even," Edison looked embarrassed, "some means of increasing the transmission range have also caused the further expansion of the volume of the telegraph." For example, the antenna or something is much larger than the last time it was realized. ”

"So can you modularize it?" Scrooge asked.

"Modular?" Edison looked puzzled.

"It is to design the whole machine to be disassembled at any time and put together several pieces at any time. When you usually want to move, you will break it up into several pieces, and when you want to use it, you can connect them with a few wires to form a whole machine. Scrooge said. In fact, the so-called modular design of later generations and what Scrooge is talking about now are not the same thing at all, but with the productivity of this era, Scrooge is also impossible to play real modularity. At this time, in order to meet the requirements of portability, this pseudo-modularity is also a solution.

"Mr. MacDonald, this is an interesting idea of yours, very interesting." Edison looked at each other, rubbed his hands, and walked back and forth in the real room quickly. Then he stopped abruptly, and then quickly took out a large number of blueprints and blank drawings from a drawer, as well as a series of pencils, erasers, and other things, and began to write and draw on the blank drawings, as if he had completely forgotten about Scrooge.

Scrooge wasn't annoyed by Edison's ignorance, and the harder Edison tried, the better it was for him. So he waved his hand at the others, motioned for them not to disturb Edison, and quietly left the room.