Seventy-seven Steam turbines
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Can you not gnash your teeth?
When he returned to Hawaii a few days ago, Li Mo thought that Tesla would surprise him. Unexpectedly, as soon as he came back, he saw him digging a well by the sea with a large group of people. Of course, even if he digs a well, he actually put a steel pipe in it, saying that he would conduct a resonance experiment!
Let's it! This is not New York! It's Hawaii, it's Oahu!
Resonance!! If this causes an earthquake and a tsunami, it will not let people live!
Regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one, Master Li directly stopped the experiment, pointed at Tesla's nose and scolded, and Tesla, who was confused, looked around, patted his head and replied: "I forgot that this is an island!" ”
Li Mo crashed directly! If he hadn't come back and knew the power of this experiment, Oahu might have become a dredging island at this moment.
Before the aftermath of the resonance experiment had subsided, the guy proposed to build a 20-meter-high tower at the two farthest ends of the Hawaiian Islands, plus Midway, for long-distance radio transmission experiments.
Radio! This is a good thing and must be supported, but Midway is still occupied by the United States, so Li Mo helped Tesla change the requirements, put the third transmission point in San Francisco, USA, and asked Duan Fei, who was there, to find someone to be in charge of this matter.
As long as the transmission tower can be built, Tesla will not care where it is! Anyway, the farther away the better, so I agreed. But the tower has only been built for a few days, right? And more money! Does this guy treat the young master as a sheep!
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"Five-megawatt steam turbine!"
"What's that?" Du Dazhuang, who accompanied the young master to Li's Electric Company, heard the young master shout before he could react from Tesla's words! The corners of my eyes twitched! It's like looking at a monster, looking at Tesla.
Can you not scream? This guy asked the young master to come and proposed to build two steam power stations in Hawaii, which is expected to require 100,000 pounds of engineering funds.
100,000 pounds is fine, and power stations powered by steam turbines are not new, at the beginning of the twentieth century, there were so many such things, and later generations even appeared steam turbines with a single power of tens or hundreds of megawatts, but now it is 1892!
Parsons' ten-horsepower reactionary steam turbine only appeared in 1884, and as for the megawatt class, it was not until 1897! Your boss opened his mouth and asked me to provide you with a five-megawatt steam turbine, and the workers here didn't even understand the reciprocating steam engine, so they wanted to get on the horse steam turbine?
I'm an idiot!
Of course, people Tesla is not unreasonable, people say it, it's okay if you don't! Provide a million pounds of research and development funds, and he will do it himself!
"A million pounds! You go rob the bank! ”
Li Mo threw a middle finger directly to Tesla, I've seen shameless, I've never seen such shameless! Climb up the pole, this girl buys land, builds a laboratory, builds a radio tower, buys equipment, buys materials, spends money like running water, and now dares to speak? Dare not spend your money!
There are no doors, and the young master came out of the steam turbine factory. "It's finally useful!" Young Master Li sang to the sky.
After directly rejecting the high R&D funds, Li Mo decided to personally use the knife to be self-reliant, and said that the steam turbine is the housekeeping skill of Master Li, and the one who is more powerful than him in this world has not yet been born! His own existence is the biggest bug in the world of ship power!
There are not many problems in the design, and the big deal is to draw a scoop according to the gourd. But manufacturing? Li Mo's head is big, those workers in his factory have just started to produce reciprocating steam engines, or are they groping for that level of production, and now let them get megawatt steam turbines all of a sudden?
Refuse?
Li Mo shook his head, looking at Tesla's fierce eyes staring at him, he knew that this guy was definitely playing for real, and if he refused this time, maybe this guy would run away, not to mention that once the steam power station is built, it will also be of great help to the research of new boilers and large marine steam turbines, and once the technical reserves are mature, they can also be used when building ships by themselves in the future.
After weighing the pros and cons, Li Mo finally gritted his teeth and conditionally agreed to Tesla, and this condition was that Tesla would take the lead and use the improved reciprocating steam engine for power stations first. And he personally took charge, set up a steam turbine research team, and limited to three years, and guaranteed to come up with a five-megawatt steam turbine for his Tesla boss after three years!
Considering that Li Mo has just started here, Tesla nodded and agreed, and after getting the 100,000 pounds of power station funds, this guy couldn't wait to start work with a lot of assistants, and Li Mo returned to the room, rummaging through the boxes and cabinets and finally found the design drawings of the water-tube boiler and steam turbine that he drew when he was fine.
Fortunately, Li Mo was an expert in steam turbines before the crossing, and his memory was not as chaotic and lacking as that of a semi-time-traveling person like Tesla, and for him, an engineer who had participated in the large-scale steam turbine project supporting the nuclear power plant in his previous life, and also had contact with the steam turbine configured in Russia for the modern level, all he needed to think about was how to turn the drawings into real things.
Truly! There were no problems with the design, and Li Mo even completed the preliminary design in only half a month.
But he couldn't make it!
Because it is 1892, not 1992, even Britain, which has the best manufacturing technology at present, has no ability to process megawatt-class steam turbines in terms of technology and technology, otherwise the construction of the Dreadnought class would not have been delayed until the beginning of the 20th century.
Fortunately, the agreement with Tesla is three years, which is enough time. After completing the preliminary design, a team called Li's Power Laboratory was also established, in addition to dozens of Chinese students, Li Mo also asked Chen Ping to recruit dozens of experts in this field in Europe, especially when Laval and the Rong brothers also agreed to come to Hawaii, he almost jumped into the sea.
These three, but the originators of the steam turbine industry, are now being found by themselves, can you not be happy? However, that Parsons was favored by the British Navy because of the research institute where he was located, so Chen Ping didn't dare to knock on the door.
But Britain has Parsons, and Hawaii has Master Lee!
With the recruitment of steam turbine talents in place, Li's power laboratory has also been officially established, after these big-headed monsters from all over the world got together, it was not admirable, so Li Mo and the Chinese students really saw what it means to contend!
Spread out the blank paper, the sample drawings were not drawn, but the public said that the public was reasonable, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was reasonable, and in the case that no one could convince anyone, the young and strong directly started to fight, and the older ones like Laval spat on the spittle, and finally even Tesla thought it was funny, and came in and sprayed saliva for two days!
This made Li Mo stunned, this is the master he found?
What about demeanor?
Fortunately, this is a steam turbine, and the people who surpass Li Mo in this world have not yet crossed over, and when he took out his preliminary design drawings, all the voices were gone, and there was only an old man who admired him and wanted to hug him, the old rabbit!
"The young master is not Lala!" After the angry Li Mo threw the drawings to these people, he took it as a shake and mastered it, not that he didn't want to get a megawatt steam turbine as soon as possible, but he wanted these people to play freely, after all, science can't always rely on gold fingers to pull out seedlings, it needs to be down-to-earth step by step, especially in the manufacturing industry, he can't do anything! So what he has to do is to draw a frame and push it when he sees someone crooked, instead of doing everything himself, so it's no wonder if he doesn't get tired to death.
What's more, Young Master Li has other important things to do at this moment.
Just when a big-headed monster in the power laboratory was worshipping with the design of Master Li, he had already gone around to the United States and quietly came to Europe, this time the purpose was not to enclose land and dig gold mines, but to see his warship!
Roosevelt's pressure on Li Mo was too great, and seeing that Dole's wings were gradually plump, it was false to say that he was not in a hurry, so he temporarily decided to come to England for a walk! What's more, according to Chen Ping's letter, the first two Determination-class armored cruisers, the Determination and the Courage, have completed sea trials and will be delivered soon.
Place of delivery, Portsmouth