Chapter 82: Cannons and the Future
The beginning of the parts manufacturing work was more difficult than Dong Chen imagined, his design drawings were meticulous, scientific and reasonable, and simple and crude, which should be very easy to manufacture.
However, after visiting some factories and blacksmith shops, he had to revise his blueprints several times, and finally changed to a straightforward alien version of "28 Augment".
And in the process, he had to stop and stop because he had to wait for the manufacturer and the blacksmith to finish the parts he needed.
Some parts need to be built separately, there are steam-powered machine tools in large factories, and blacksmiths can also use exquisite technology to create small parts, and he can only buy some small machine tools with manpower, so most of the parts need to be customized and purchased.
And the order of parts is not only for him, the demand for inventions in this world is very strong, but only some powerful scientific researchers have their own invention workshops, which are fully equipped and have many employees.
And for these "retail investors", there are special departments in each factory to accept this kind of order, so he needs to queue up.
While waiting, he sorted out the relevant bicycle patents and derivative patents, and at the same time thought about improving some machine tools to make them more suitable for the production of bicycle parts, in preparation for mass production in the future.
Of course, patents for machine tool modifications also have to be applied.
The elementary books he purchased were detailed in all the scope and steps of the patent application, which can be said to be extremely friendly to newcomers.
But unfortunately, some newcomers basically don't need it.
In other free time, he also started his literary creation, saying that he wanted to be a science fiction writer, and he also wanted to make some of the scientific and technological products written in his own books, which must have works.
Originally, Dong Chen planned to follow the sages of the earth and write the first book from the creation of life, but after he showed Xia the first article he wrote about "artificial man", he directly startled Xia and quickly threw the manuscript into the furnace to burn it, and warned Dong Chen not to write such a thing.
Dong Chen was also taken aback by Xia Ya's reaction, but after Xia Ya's explanation, he understood the reason, which was that he underestimated the impact of the "creation myth" on people's thoughts.
Come to think of it, those completely shadowless myths on the earth can be believed by so many people, not to mention the real "creation" facts on the other side of the planet.
The right to create life always belongs to the "God of Technology", and the only people who actually do it are those "God of Life", and they who are created do not have that right.
However, there are also those who do not believe in evil, but those people are rejected by the entire Terran camp, so those people try their best to go to the Western barbarian camp during the war, and those who do not leave also hide in the shadows and conduct their own experiments in secret.
Once it is known that they have the intention to create and transform life, then they will not only be regarded as shameless thieves who "steal the divine right", but they will also be supporters of the Western barbarian camp, enemies of the Terran camp, and will be burned to death.
There was a reason for the deterioration of the relationship between the Terran camp and the barbarian camp in the first place, the barbarians thought that they were taller, bigger, stronger, and the darling of the god of science and technology, so they let the god of life create the barbarians so strong.
After being expelled, they thought that if they became stronger, they would definitely be able to return to the arms of the god of technology, so they were very keen to study the life sciences.
But the first life ...... Science, that is no different from killing lives, and can even be defined as "torture and killing", which is simply cruel.
And it's not enough to study yourself, you have to study all the races, but their own IQ is not enough, fortunately, there are people from other races who are curious about the meaning of life, and they are also helping them study, which also leads to the final big rupture.
Several tribes joined forces and gradually drove the barbarians and those accomplices to the western continent.
However, it stands to reason that the united tribes were also unable to defeat the barbarians and accomplices, but they were driven away, because the history is a bit old, and the records are not detailed at the time, so many people attribute this to "God's will".
But since then, the taboo of transforming and creating life has been set, which incidentally leads to the development of treatment methods here that are somewhat biased, and the use of natural medicine for treatment has been somewhat similar to the development of medical techniques in Huaguo.
In fact, there are a lot of miraculous natural drugs in this world, and the development is not bad, but they have less understanding of the human body, and the invention of the microscope has given them some understanding of the nature of the world, but if they want to operate on the inside of the human body, it is absolutely not allowed.
Knowing this taboo, and being told to him by the locals in righteous words, Dong Chen stopped trying to challenge authority by himself, and immediately changed his writing direction.
Life can't work, then come to the mechanical, it just so happens that the other side of the planet is the steam age, Dong Chen borrowed from several early science fiction novels on the earth, and then came a super steam cannon.
Decades later, the Terrans won the war against the Western barbarians with countless steam cannons and airships, in order to commemorate the role of the steam cannon, people built a huge steam cannon, using a huge steam boiler to connect the super cannon, and then flew to the moon on a super-large hollow cannonball, and placed a statue of the steam cannon on the moon, so that the eternal moon could witness the victory of the Terrans.
Steam can propel the train forward, then the steam cannon can make the projectile shoot far away, adhering to the "big is beautiful" concept of "not enough kinetic energy, make up the size", as long as the cannon and boiler are made large enough, with enough steam pressure, then the cannonball can be launched to the moon.
In the book, Dong Chen not only wrote about the victory of the Terrans, but also depicted the beautiful life of the Terrans decades later, including writing that without walking, you can easily walk ten times as far as before on a bicycle.
The steam train will be freed from the railroad and transformed into a small steam car, speeding at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour on a flat road.
The airship will turn into a super-jumbo, carrying dozens or hundreds of people in the sky......
There is a story content related to the earth to learn from, and he also knows that there will be a general development trend in the future, plus some characteristics of this world, as well as a little selfish misdirection of his own, a novel came out like this.
In addition, Dong Chen can also draw himself, so he also drew some beautiful illustrations, including the huge steam cannon, the internal structure of the flying cannonball, the towering buildings and the huge airship, etc.
When Dong Chen showed Xia a part of the manuscript again, she finally calmed down and finished reading it, and after reading it, she asked Dong Chen curiously, "The kind of steam car you said can really drive at a speed of 100 kilometers?" ”
"Is this possible? For a steam car to drive at this speed, the steam engine used is larger than the front of a train, and you have to pave all the roads with thick steel to bear its weight. ”
"Of course," Dong Chen said confidently, "Although the current trains can't run so fast, and they are very cumbersome, but when the technology is more advanced in the future, it will definitely be realized." ”
"It would be great if it could be realized, and then I would have to drive around in a steam car, and I would have to drive a hundred kilometers too!"
It can be heard that Shia is full of yearning for steam cars.
And Dong Chen: "......"
Is this the first female car driver?