Chapter 35: Genius, Idiot, Unlucky Guy
There is such a genius, and his discovery will not begin to be understood until decades later, and it will take nearly 100 years for the related inventions to be revealed. And his contributions continue to impact our lives today.
Color ultrasound, radar, and even the Big Bang theories are based on his discoveries, but unfortunately, he was not taken seriously when he was alive, and even lived a life of poverty.
He was born as the eldest son of a well-known family of stonemasons in Salzburg, Austria, and according to the family's tradition, he would take over the stonemason business.
However, he did not have the good stature of his father, and he was destined to be unable to engage in the traditional family business.
Although he could not inherit the family business, his family was very wealthy, and his father hired the best tutor for him, hoping that he would become an artist, but he was more interested in mathematics.
In 1822 he was admitted to the Vienna Institute of Technology, and in 1825 he was admitted to the University of Vienna.
At the end of his teaching assistant career in 1833, the University of Vienna did not consider renewing his contract.
He had to think about his future, and in March 1833 he applied for a teaching position at the Royal University of Prague, which he was confident of, having obtained several degrees and had many years of experience as a teaching assistant in the imperial capital of Vienna.
But his cover letter was like a stone in the sea, there was no news, anxious and disappointed, he had to continue his job search.
It just so happened that the Austrian Imperial Naval Academy in Venesia was recruiting teachers.
He felt that a group of navy bosses would definitely have no reason to reject such an excellent scholar as himself.
He rushed to the interview, only to be kicked out due to his emaciation.
Until 1834, when he left Vienna, he did not find a job.
I had to return to my hometown and become an accountant in a textile factory.
Bookkeeping in a dark factory was clearly not the life he wanted.
His younger brother inherited the family business, and when he learned of his brother's current situation, he offered to pay for his brother to go to the United States to develop.
Although his family is only a family of stonemasons, the people who can live next door to Mozart are definitely wealthy.
Soon, he received a large sum of money, enough money for him to leave the Austrian Empire and go to the United States across the ocean.
At the same time, he received two invitations, one from Bern and one from Prague, both inviting him to become a secondary school teacher.
He chose Prague, which was closer to him, and for which he studied Czech, but on his first day in Prague he found that all the people here spoke German.
He married the daughter of a local goldsmith, but the two did not live happily ever after, and the goldsmith's daughter soon ran out of money, so she often left him and his daughter at home and went home alone.
In a fit of rage, he took his daughter and went to Vienna to find a job.
Of course, his luck was still as bad as before, and he went to several universities in Vienna, but he was always rejected.
When he had only two Kreutz left in his pocket, he was kicked out by the innkeeper, and unfortunately his daughter had a high fever again.
He had no choice but to try his luck at the Royal Academy in Vienna, but the other party had no intention of meeting this commoner without a knighthood.
The fat, tooth-decaying gatekeeper shoved him out the door.
He was still holding his daughter and accidentally fell to the ground, but he still pleaded with him.
"Please, be merciful, and for God's sake, let me see Count Efate, my daughter is sick, and I need a job."
The gatekeeper spat on the ground.
"Phew! There are tens of thousands of college students in Vienna, who doesn't want to work at the Royal Academy, you don't even have a noble status as a hillbilly, you deserve it!? ”
He hugged the gatekeeper's thigh and pleaded.
"Sir, please be good, I am still a stonemason, I can help you."
The gatekeeper hesitated for a moment and asked.
"What will you do?"
He replied without thinking.
"I'll carve a tombstone."
When the gatekeeper heard this, he was furious and kicked him at him.
There were a lot of well-dressed gentlemen around, and they didn't even stop to glance at the man who was being beaten, but just talked and left, as if nothing had happened.
In order to protect the daughter in his arms, he hit his head and fell down the steps, but fortunately he was helped in time.
"What's going on? If I'm not mistaken, you're beating up a gentleman with a daughter. When did the Royal Academy of Vienna become an unregulated place? A little kid said with great displeasure.
"Where did you come from, little cub, stay there, you're not the bastard of this poor ghost, are you?" The gatekeeper said mockingly.
As soon as the gatekeeper's words fell, several figures pierced his side, two tall Praetorian guards held him down, and an officer-like man began to slap the gatekeeper without saying a word.
The officer was tall and strong, and his arm strength was even more amazing, and he knocked out two of the gatekeeper's teeth with just one slap, and slapped the gatekeeper's face like a pig's head in a few strokes.
Seeing that it was the forbidden army that beat the man, the gatekeeper immediately begged the forbidden army officer for mercy.
"Please, let me go, my lord, I didn't mean to hit you, my words are dirty, my blood is dirty, don't dirty your hands, oops." The gatekeeper lost his teeth, so his speech was a little leaky, but the general idea could still be heard.
The Praetorian officer shook his head and turned his head to look at the boy.
At this time, the gatekeeper knew that the young man was not an illegitimate child, and the only one with the forbidden army could only be the royal family, and he suddenly had the heart to die.
Insulting the royal family, this is the Austrian Empire, not France.
In France, Philippe Pong could insult the royal family at will, and he could do it with just a few fines.
Philippe Pon, a French painter, became famous for insulting Louis Philippe and called on all French painters to insult Louis Philippe.
But in Austria the crime can be big or small, and if it can get to the emperor, it will probably be an exile or expulsion from Vienna.
If it does not make trouble in front of the emperor, then it is very likely that he will be lynched by the forbidden army, and as for the gendarmerie or the secret police, I am afraid that life is worse than death.
The gatekeeper was about to speak, but the boy said indifferently.
"I ask you why you don't let this gentleman in."
"He's a civilian, and the old men in the academy don't think he's worthy of working here, so they don't let him in, and I'm just acting on orders, let me go."
The boy coughed impatiently, and the officer slapped the gatekeeper in the face.
"What the Grand Duke asks, you answer."
The gatekeeper nodded hurriedly, not daring to say more.
"Let me ask you again, did you assault this gentleman on your own initiative, or was it at the behest of someone else?"
The gatekeeper hesitated.
"He... I... I just wanted to get him out of the way, nothing else. Count Efate said he didn't want to see him again, so I..."
"Alright, you can shut up."
The boy turned to the Praetorian officer.
"Mr. Parrish, let him swallow all his teeth. Tell Count Efate that I don't want to visit him again today, so let's go to the manor. ”
The boy turned away and walked towards the man who was on the side, and did not go to see Mr. Parrish executed.
"Sir, if you don't mind, you can come to my manor, where there is the best doctor who can help you."
"Thank you, you are such a nice person, my name is Christian Doppler and I am a scholar." The man in the winter who was wearing only a single coat replied.
Doppler? Isn't this one of the three unlucky eggs in the history of the Austrian Empire? The other two are, Mendel, the father of heredity, and Tesla, the son of God.
The doorman just now actually hit the smartest head in Austria in this era, which is simply a violent thing.
But the doorman was quickly punished, and two janissaries broke the doorman's mouth, and Captain Parrish, who was very skillful, raised the butt of his rifle and smashed it, and after three blows, made up for it.
The two Janissaries wrapped cloth bands around the guard's mouth and straightened his body, and Captain Parrish slammed the butt of his rifle into his stomach, and after a few rounds, the doorman rolled his eyes up and lost consciousness.
The Praetorian Army moved quickly and settled the battle before the gendarmes arrived.
Parrish got on his horse and whispered a few words in front of the gendarmerie captain, who naturally understood what he meant.
"Don't look at it, don't look at it! This man disturbed the peace, polluted the public environment, and brought me to the gendarmerie. ”
Several gendarmes couldn't help but say, put black hoods on the doormen, and threw them directly into the wagon of the gendarmerie.
Franz invited Doppler into his six carriages and asked him what had happened and what he had come to Vienna.
Improvised, food was heated on top of the incubator, and Doppler's youngest daughter was well under Talia's care.
The little girl is not sick, but she is hungry and has no strength, coupled with the child's fast metabolism, blood sugar decreases, which leads to palpitation, sweating, and body fever.
The little girl stared at the soup in the pot, with many crumbs sticking to the corners of her mouth, and half a steak in her hand.
Doppler on the side watched his daughter get better, and his nervous heart was relaxed, and he swallowed saliva unconsciously when he saw the food.
"Mr. Doppler, if you don't mind, you can eat some too." Franz said with a smile.
"Excuse me, I'm not hungry."
Doppler said he wasn't hungry, but his stomach was screaming.
Talia on the side also smiled, she liked children very much, and she sympathized with the father with the child, and rummaged through the box next to her to find food.
With only a box of foie gras and a bowl of fish soup left, Talia looked at Franz, who nodded.
Talia poured foie gras over the bread and handed it to Doppler, and placed the fish soup on top of the incubator to heat it.
Doppler took the bread and ate it without caring about the image.
"Mr. Doppler, I would like to hire you as a professor at the Vienna Women's College."
Doppler nearly choked to death, and Talia nearly spit out the juice she had just drunk.
Caesars Grand Hotel, Vienna.
The ground was littered with shards of fine porcelain, and several of the servants had been smashed to their faces covered in blood, but they did not even dare to wipe them, for fear of arousing the wrath of the tyrant in front of them.
"Idiot! Idiot! Are you embarrassed to call yourself economists? Let a fool copy the bottom, I just hire a bunch of pigs to be better than you! Where's my money! What about my railroad! If the Northern Railway is still in my hands, the Austrians, the Prussians, the French, and all of Central Europe will look at my face! ”
Solomon Rothschild's forehead was bruised, and this time Austria's biggest loser was Rothschild Bank.
Solomon Rothschild was the first person in Austria to learn of the collapse of the London stock market, and in order to avoid danger and to be able to cut the leeks of the Austrian Empire like Nathan Rothschild, he sold all the stocks in his name to his partners.
He had lost the hot potato, but his faithful partners were not so lucky.
Solomon Rothschild's friends went bankrupt or had to sell their assets at a low price in order not to drown in the financial tsunami.
In fact, Solomon Rothschild also lost a lot of money, conservatively estimated at around 10 million florins, while his friends lost tens of millions of florins.
Solomon Rothschild still remembers that when he first arrived in Vienna, he used the public debt of the Austrian Empire to eliminate the opponents of the Rothschild family in Vienna at that time, and at the same time made 20 million florins, which directly led to the birth of the Austrian Imperial Chartered Bank.
At that time, Solomon Rothschild almost destroyed Vienna's financial industry, and a third of Vienna's banks went bankrupt as a result.
The 700-year-old Gjemüller went out of business, and David Parrish, the patriarch of the Parrish family, who had served the Habsburgs for fifteen generations, jumped into the Danube because of bankruptcy.
Later, a non-existent public project was issued, and a bond of 10 million francs was issued for the Duchess Marie Louisa, and Solomon earned 6 million francs.
Solomon Rothschild remembers that once upon a time he made money in the Austrian Empire, it was as easy as cheating candy from the hands of a child, how could he suddenly lose money?
And the loss of Solomon Rothschild's credibility is more serious than the economic loss.
Solomon Rothschild succeeded in taking out a large number of long-established banking and finance families while passing on the risk.
Had it not been for Franz's 67 million coinage to save the day, the Austrian Empire would have had a run on the stock as it has historically been, and the effects of the economic crisis would have lasted until 1838.
With Franz's intervention, the Austrian Empire not only quickly emerged from the shadow of the economic crisis, but also attracted some foreign investment.
Historically, the Austrian Empire was not closely related to trade with Britain and the United States, but it was the country most affected by the economic crisis of 1837 in the entire German Confederation.
A misjudgment by Solomon Rothschild led directly to a financial crisis that should not have been.
But in the capital world of the strong, Solomon Rothschild eventually became the winner, not only taking the opportunity to acquire a large number of excellent assets, but even forcing the Habsburg royal family to grant him permission to buy land in the inner city of Vienna.
(At this time, Jews in the Austrian Empire were not allowed to own land in the inner city of Vienna.) )
Historically, Solomon Rothschild took the opportunity to buy the Caesars Hotel, which he coveted for a long time.
But in this plane, he was just one of the many tenants of the Caesars Hotel, and the other tenants downstairs were very unhappy with his mistreatment of porcelain.
With the sound of a mop hitting the ceiling, there was a majestic "Sukabule!" "It's coming from downstairs.