Big Food Country, Quicksand City, the second laboratory, that is, the mechanical laboratory.

A rather complicated-looking machine sits on a workbench with several thick cables attached to it.

There was a strange sound inside the machine, and a piece of paper placed on the copper tray slowly spit out.

Zheng Fuguang carefully picked up the copper plate and glanced at it, and then turned to Zhu Jingyuan beside him:

"Your Highness, the reaction has been completed, and the effect can only be said to be very good, and the speed is also very fast, and the clarity is acceptable.

"Your algorithm is really good, and you can fax the photos provided for the newspaper in the future, as well as important document reports.

"Fax is theoretically perfectly synchronized, with exactly the same information from the initiator and receiver, and can even be used as evidence."

Zhu Jingyuan picked up the piece of paper and looked at it, and it was a black-and-white photo of the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry of Beijing.

At first glance, it looks like an ordinary photo.

But if you look closely at it, you will see that the images are not whole, but are made up of small dots.

The different dots have different color depths, and the result is a very realistic photo.

Dot matrix image fax.

Zhu Jingyuan's new invention.

After the principle exploration and practical verification completed by the Beijing Normal Engineering Department, the prototype was completed and the experiment was successful, and the data was sent to the mechanical laboratory of Dashiguo.

The mechanical laboratory made the same machine, and then connected with the Daming Jingshi Ministry of Engineering to receive this photo fax test.

Fax technology already exists in this world, but it is more cumbersome and expensive to use.

Imaging is a chemical mode similar to that used by a camera to wash a photo, transmitting and printing all the contents of the entire frame.

It is only used when it is particularly important information and it is necessary to send images.

For example, the photo of Zhu Jingyuan's first appearance at the Western Cape was sent back to the newspaper office by traditional fax.

Although Zhu Jingyuan wondered why his photos could be regarded as extraordinarily important information, they did so.

Other ordinary messages are basically text telegrams, explaining the problem in words.

The "dot matrix" design provided by Zhu Jingyuan appeared in the twenties of the twentieth century.

By separating images and text into dot matrixes, the amount of data that actually needs to be transferred is reduced.

The most important thing is that complex images and words with information about human intelligence can be turned into simple and regular mechanical data.

Mechanical data is converted into electrical signals, which can be sent directly to the other side of the world via cables, and then reproduced in its original form with similar equipment.

Dot matrix technology is the basis for the real popularization of fax equipment, and it is also the basis for all kinds of automatic printers in the future.

and even the underlying technology of all subsequent text-image devices.

The dot matrix design runs through the entire fax age, as well as the entire information age.

From now on, in the era when Zhu Jingyuan can think about it, this kind of design cannot be outdated.

All the information I saw in my previous life, as long as it was printed or displayed on the screen, was basically processed through a dot matrix. ….

The most rogue patent that Zhu Jingyuan knew in his last life was "displaying text and images on an LCD screen through dot matrix".

Zhu Jingyuan looked at the photo in his hand and nodded slightly:

"The problem of images is thus solved, and the processing and transmission of words can be derived from this.

"According to a standard, the commonly used Chinese characters are dotted into a matrix.

"Words are much simpler than images, and the correct text can be represented with very few dots.

"In the future, the cost of sending text faxes should be able to be further reduced.

"Use an electrical signal to transmit text dot matrix data to the other end, and print out the text directly at the other end.

"So you won't have to write by hand with a telegraph operator...... No...... Forehead ......"

Zhu Jingyuan's words are here, and he has already discovered the problem.

The telegrams that Zhu Jingyuan often saw were written directly by the telegraph operator, not printed out.

Zhu Jingyuan subconsciously felt that this was handwritten by the telegraph operator after receiving the code, and the translated code was written by hand at the same time.

Therefore, Zhu Jingyuan subconsciously thought that after having text lattice fax, after reducing the cost of text fax, he could not let the telegraph operator manually translate.

Connect the fax signal directly to the typing machine and let the machine print out the content directly according to the signal.

However, the use of code plus translation is first and foremost for encryption.

Then, even if a mechanical computer could be made to directly decipher it, there was no machine that could directly print Chinese characters in this era.

Finally, even if there is a machine that prints Chinese characters or other characters, it is not dot-matrix.

The traditional mechanical typewriter is essentially an instant movable type printing press.

In essence, they are all printed with one-word seals.

The standardization of the dot matrix of Chinese characters is actually a high-level requirement that will only appear in the computer age, even after the emergence of laser typesetting, or when the display is made.

Before that, just to type out the text, there was no need to engage in the standard dot matrix of Chinese characters.

In addition, this linkage plan or the idea itself, this kind of planning that will be taken for granted by later generations, in the current era, every link is whimsical, and at the same time, there are old and difficult problems.

In addition to the difficulty of linking these devices, the automatic typewriter alone is a huge problem.

Typewriters were not popular in the Ming Dynasty, not only because the literati preferred to write, but also because Chinese typewriters were too difficult to make.

Among the imperial court and large enterprises, mechanical typewriters have been basically popularized in the last ten years.

Most of the countries in Tessy use alphabet scripts, usually only twenty or thirty letters in total.

Each letter is made on a metal bar, and a metal bar is connected to a button.

It's like a piano key, press a key, and the corresponding metal bar is raised.

The head of the metal strip, smash the ribbon on the white paper, and you can print a letter like a seal.

Twenty or thirty letters, twenty or thirty keys, twenty or thirty metal bars can solve the typewriter problem.

The structure of the typewriter of the alphabet is so simple that a mature typewriter can even be made "portable". ….

Kanji are ideograms, and each single word is actually equivalent to a word made up of multiple letters.

There are also thousands of commonly used Chinese characters, and there are tens of thousands of standard Chinese characters, and if you count the various variants, no one knows how many.

The number of words is also very large and growing.

Even if these Chinese characters are commonly used words, they can't be as simple as the Tessie alphabet on a typewriter.

In the history of Zhu Jingyuan's last life, the inability of Chinese characters to be made into typewriters was once a reason for some to call for abandoning Chinese characters and switching to the Latin alphabet phonetic script.

This incident made European and American cultural people at that time ridicule, and drew all kinds of cartoons to ridicule.

This may have made the masters of certain eras feel inferior.

However, the Ming people of this world don't seem to care about this matter.

The unique Chinese characters can better reflect the uniqueness of the Ming cultural personality.

The richness of meaning and usage, as well as calligraphy as an art, are highly prized by Tessie intellectuals.

Even if it is inconvenient for someone to occasionally criticize Chinese characters on mechanical printing, there is no need for the Ming people to justify and match the line themselves.

Tessie's intellectuals who like Ming culture can withdraw from the circle of scolding this kind of person.

"If you don't think it's good, it must be an appreciation that you don't understand."

According to Zhu Jingyuan's experience, a relatively flexible Chinese typewriter can actually be made.

Before the advent of laser phototypesetting technology, after the electronic computer came out, it was necessary to use a meter

The computer controls the Chinese characters directly, and it is necessary to make a structure for printing the Chinese characters.

This structure was also purely mechanical in its early days, and he himself was a mechanic kanji typewriter.

It was made in the late '40s, just after World War II.

Make this structure independently, and design a set of encoding rules similar to the input method to type.

When connected to a mechanical computer and a fax machine, it should be possible to type out the fax parsed by the computer.

But given the complexity of the entire system and the difficulty of achieving these functions purely mechanically......

Zhu Jingyuan feels that the whole system may not be able to run smoothly for ten or eight years.

So Zhu Jingyuan himself stopped when he said this.

Zheng Fuguang and the craftsmen here were also obviously stunned for a moment, as if they were trying to digest Zhu Jingyuan's idea.

"Your Highness, this idea of yours is really imaginative, and if it is realized, it will indeed be very convenient.

"However, the difficulty of achieving it ...... Now it seems undoubtedly very high.

"This requires automatic decryption by computer, a fax machine linked to a typewriter, and a controlled automatic typewriter......

"This kind of project, we craftsmen probably can't solve it.

"The suggestion of my subordinates is to let the Ministry of Rites take the lead, cooperate with the Ministry of Works, and organize a special department to do it slowly."

Zhu Jingyuan also nodded lightly:

"Well, I'll go back and write a relatively simple plan, make a Chinese typewriter and a mechanical computer that are flexible enough, and let the Ministry of Rites cooperate with the Ministry of Industry to toss it out."

Zheng Fuguang and the other craftsmen had strange expressions, and at the same time began to look forward to it.

If someone else, even a more advanced craftsman, suddenly says that he wants to make a mature and simple design in a completely new field, and it is obviously an extremely difficult field, then most people will laugh it off.

But the boss of his own family, His Royal Highness the Prince of Great Food, cannot be said to be a genius, but can only be said to be a genius at the level of the heavens.

There is basically nothing he can't do in the past.

Although not without failures, let's say assault rifles were not accepted by the troops.

But that was actually limited by the production process, and the things designed and produced did not meet the standards of His Highness.

The submachine gun, invented at the same time as the assault rifle, has proven to be a very useful weapon.

Even under the pressure of a high supply of bullets, the Governor's Mansion has begun to order on a large scale.

They are very useful in the eastern and southern parts of Mozhou, as well as in the rainforests of Nanyinzhou, in relatively close combat.

In the accepted Tessie colony, in the camp where the aborigines lived, it was also an absolute weapon in indoor combat.

When encountering an enemy in a small space, the enemy has already been killed with a submachine gun when the long rifle cannot be turned around.

Now His Highness wants to make faxes, mechanical computers, and electronically controlled Chinese typewriters, and no one doubts that he can't do it.

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It's just curious what he can do, what level he can achieve, and whether he can use it quickly.

Prince Void