Speaking of which, although William found it boring most of the time, there was no point in such a life. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info but I can't quite say that, in some places, sometimes William still finds it valuable. I even said it was pleasantly surprised.

For example, in front of those guys who are not very famous, but can be seen at a glance as very good scholars.

Physicists, chemists, mathematicians, biologists, medical scientists, and some subspecies of the various scientists mentioned above. Some of these guys are speculators with little ability, but there are also many guys who don't meet talents. It was a surprise to be able to meet these guys in the salon of Frisia. And it is even more pleasant to be able to network these guys and teach in their own Russia.

It's just, of course, that these guys aren't what anyone wants to go.

Although the Hereford family rose to prominence, the Russian kingdom flourished. However, in the understanding of the traditional countries of the Old Continent, the large border areas are still poor mountains and bad waters, and belong to the wilderness. There would be no academic, or developmental, possibility in that kind of place.

So the vast majority of guys politely declined William's invitation. This discouraged William...... Although it is said that with Victoria, the large Briton corporation, and the support of the Continental Alchemist Alliance, he is not short of similar scholars to serve him. But these guys are not too loyal to themselves and to the Hereford family. These people are usually outsourced talents, or labor dispatch talents. These guys will return to their countries and forces after fulfilling their contracts and earning money, and few of them choose to stay.

In addition to this, although several universities were opened in the Russian kingdom, a number of talents were trained. But these talents are usually administrative and economic talents. Because this talent is easier to cultivate. On the other hand, those physical chemistry and mathematics ...... Or it's much more difficult to get people in geography, hydraulics, botany, and so on.

Maybe you can train some apprentices, some graduate school coolies or something. But to really train professional scholars, and even the masters of this industry, it is very difficult, but it is not something that William can solve by taking out his nine-year obligations and then taking out high school and university textbooks.

Therefore, William really wants to get a group of scholars and research teams who are sincere to him. It's just that at the moment, it seems that this idea is still going to be difficult to succeed.

"So, it's terrible. On that day, in Victoria's villa in Rotterdam, William was still drinking coffee, looking at the snow outside, and let out such an exclamation.

Although the time is only two months, such a leisurely day will still make people's bones weak after a long time...... Although they were all grateful to the noble ladies and ladies who threw them into their arms, the courtesans and so on, although they did not overeat. Even I still have the habit of training hard every day. But after two months, William still felt that his bones were a little weak.

"So, we have to find something to do...... William thought to himself.

There are still at least three months to go before the beginning of spring. In other words, during these three months, he needs to find something that makes him feel good both physically and mentally.

Of course, the "physical and mental pleasure" mentioned here has nothing to do with Victoria.

Rather, this guy is an important element that makes William feel unhappy.

There has been a breakthrough in the technology of the Britons. Yes, breakthrough progress. This progress is not like William's flintlock formation, flowering bullets, or even a major discovery in a single field like William's ironclad ships, which have made some progress.

Nowadays, though, Victoria only flaunts the invention to William as if he were showing off something new. But William believed that once the invention was put into practical use, it would certainly not be justified, and it would enhance the overall national strength of the whole of Briton. It even led to an industrial revolution similar to the steam engine frenzy again.

Difference engine.

The meaning of the so-called "difference" is to convert the complex equation of the table of functions into differential operations, and replace the square operation with simple addition.

In the history of William's original world, this "primitive computer" was created in 1812 at the age of 20 when Babbage was inspired by the jacquard weaving machine invented by the Frenchman Jackard.

The design of a differential machine is a flash of programmatic control—it can automatically handle the computation of different functions according to the designer's wishes. It took Babbage ten years to complete the first differential machine in 1822, which could handle three different five-digit numbers with an accuracy of six decimal places, and immediately calculate several tables of functions.

This kind of steam-powered large-scale computing instrument may go one step further, and then work this basis, it will be possible to build a machine with stronger and better computing power, and it is even possible to say that the computing power has reached the current level of electronic computers.

It is even said that in 1834, Babbage had already proposed a new and bolder design. The goal of his final sprint was not just a differential machine capable of tabulation, but a general-purpose mathematical computer. 巴贝奇把这种新的设计叫“分析机”，它能够自动解算有100个变量的复杂算题，每个数可达25位，速度可达每秒钟运算一次。

This machine surpasses the previous machines in terms of the range of calculations possible, the ease with which they can be performed, the reliability and precision with which they can be calculated, or the complete absence of human involvement.

巴贝奇把分析机设计得那样精巧，他打算用蒸汽机为动力，驱动大量的齿轮机构运转。 巴贝奇的分析机大体上有三大部分：其一是齿轮式的“存贮库“，巴贝奇称它为“仓库“（store），每个齿轮可贮存10个数，齿轮组成的阵列总共能够储存1000个50位数。

The second component of the machine is the so-called "arithmetic chamber", which Babbage named "mill", and its basic principle is similar to Pascal's wheel, using the meshing, rotation, translation, etc. of gears to perform numerical crunching. In order to speed up the calculation, he improved the carrying mechanism so that the operation of 50 digits plus 50 digits could be completed in a single spinning wheel.

The third part, Babbage, which is not specifically named, is used to control the order of operations with the "0" and "1" in Jaccard's punch card, similar to a controller in a computer. He even thinks about how to make the machine handle conditional transfers, such as multiplying if the first step is "1", and division if "0". In addition, Babbage conceived of mechanisms for feeding and retrieving data, as well as components that constantly transported data back and forth between the "warehouse" and the "workshop".

This very "advanced" design makes people can't help but think of a tool that is inseparable from all mankind at present, from military to people's livelihood, from daily entertainment to office.

Of course, that is, computers. In a way, Babbage's differential machine is too similar to a computer. The failure of the differential machine was not the failure of Babbage, but the fact that the level of process manufacturing at that time was completely unable to meet the requirements of large differential machines. It was not possible to manufacture overly precise parts, which made it impossible to continue research on differential machines.

In this case, Babbage's efforts failed, and his research on the differential machine was unable to receive any funding, leaving only a large number of design drawings and manufactured parts.

In 1991, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Babbage's birth, the Science Museum in London produced a complete difference machine, which contained more than 4,000 parts and weighed 2. 5 tons, its functionality is fully at the expected level. That is, this bastard with a hole in his brain is at least a hundred years ahead of humanity.

Of course, from a pragmatist's point of view, this guy's invention is useless. The result of being too ahead of its time is that it is too unscientific and too impractical. There is no fewest feasibility or practicality at all. For William, for Victoria, this kind of thing can rightfully be called "waste".

But that was in the original plane, not now.

Now it's the case, in this world, that the difference machine not only works well and can be used, but that Mr. Babbage even built the analysis machine he had envisioned. And its computing power and practicality are better than originally expected.

Although it is far inferior to Dr. von Neumann's first computer, as long as it takes time, the future will be limitless.

"So what the hell is going on?" William looked at Victoria, as if Victoria had said something wrong, and William would not hesitate to draw his sword and kill her.

Seeing William so surprised and out of shape, Victoria naturally showed a smug smile.

"It's because of the dwarves, the dwarves. Victoria smiled and replied, "Even the most sophisticated lathes can't make such materials, but dwarves can make parts that meet their specifications by hand." God knows how their carrot-thick fingers did that. ”

“...... Oh, yes. "In the face of Victoria, William couldn't react other than hehe. At this moment, he sincerely hoped, hoped, longed that there were no foul creatures like dwarves in this world. They are just so hateful.

Of course, after a while, Breton with a difference machine will reach a stronger level of productivity. At the same time, with the computing assistance ability of the differential machine, the opponent will have more advantages in the design and construction of machines, ships, artillery, buildings and so on. Under these circumstances, William could not imagine how he could compete and overwhelm the country.