Vienna, Austria.

With the development of Austrian industry, Franz already felt the need to develop electricity, but because the necessary theory of electromagnetism had not yet been perfected.

In fact, Faraday had already put forward the theory of electromagnetic induction in 1831, but it was not perfect and not enough to support the leapfrog development of electricity.

Franz had no problem improving some of the techniques, but he couldn't do anything when it came to coming up with systematic scientific theories. Even if I had learned it at the beginning, I would have returned it to the teacher a long time ago.

The bounty has risen from 10,000 florins to 150,000 florins, but it still hasn't improved.

Franz did make a turbine generator himself, but this thing was not a real turbine generator like later generations, just a steam generator full of steampunk style.

The performance is passable, but the failure rate is a bit high, and there is a certain chance of explosion. That's right, the big explosion, the girls' school next door is going to be closed again.

The generator that Franz designed was actually based on a Faraday disc and a Davenport motor, which was actually not very clever.

However, usually the voltage of Faraday discs is only a few volts, Davenport motors are only a few tens of volts, and Franz needs hundreds of volts.

However, there are always more ways than difficulties, and it is not impossible to increase the voltage, according to the conventional thinking, the first way is to increase the speed.

But it soon proved to be unfeasible, because too high a disc speed can cause overheating, or even due to too high a line velocity, and launching the disc is like a dart.

It's just that it's much more powerful than a dart, and Austrian scientists have made it a few thousand revolutions in the spirit of curiosity.

It is not clear how Franz got it, but the result was that the disc shot out like a cannonball, pierced the glass, and severed the neck of a horse.

Since increasing the speed will not work, then use the stupidest method to increase the diameter of the disc

As a result, Austrian scientists and craftsmen made a giant Faraday disc with a diameter of more than ten meters.

In fact, this kind of crazy behavior is usually stopped by the craftsmen, but the craftsmen of Austria seem to have long been accustomed to this kind of whimsical creation, after all, the analysis machine designed by Dr. Babbage (the priest) is no smaller than this generator.

However, it exploded again unsurprisingly, and the problem was still that it was overheating and could not operate for a long time.

Then the scientists pressed Franz's refrigerator again, but with the current technology, it still could not meet Franz's requirements.

Fortunately, Franz has a third way to go, which can increase the strength of the magnetic field and replace the natural magnet with an electromagnet, although it will consume some of the electrical energy, but the voltage will finally go up.

But there's still a chance that this thing will explode, or be a weird accident.

Although technology is constantly improving, people are disabled or even lose their lives every month due to accidents.

At this time, aluminum is more precious than gold, and electrolytic aluminum is the most efficient method, even if it is still used today.

Franz doesn't think that aluminum is worth more than human life, but at this time, even if he wants to stop, someone will continue to try, because of the drive of profit.

The proceeds of electrolytic aluminum can not only continue to support the experiment itself, but also provide a large surplus. Franz would use the money to perfect the technology and compensate the families of the warriors who gave their lives for it.

That's all he can do, if he really forcibly stops the electrolytic aluminum project, someone will definitely take a risk, because the temptation is too great.

And those people don't have the technology and financial resources of Franz, let alone security. At the same time, it will lead to a further diffusion of technology, which in turn will affect the development of Austria.

Rather than that, it would be better for Franz to bear all the blame, at least those people will enjoy it while they are alive, and their families will be taken care of after death, and the state will benefit from it.

In fact, Franz invited Faraday to Austria many times to continue his research, but this person was extremely uninterested in the aristocracy and the royal family.

Faraday was an Englishman and was highly regarded by the British government, especially Prime Minister Robert Peel.

Robert Peel, as Prime Minister, immediately applied for a special pension for Faraday, calling him "the greatest scientist among living Englishmen." ”

Before that, only politicians and soldiers, as well as the great nobles, could receive this honor, not even Sir Isaac, who discovered the law of gravity.

In the face of such praise and such generous treatment, Faraday sternly refused.

In the end, even if he was knighted, he never pretended to be like it.

When Franz's emissaries self-righteously spoke of those favorable conditions, they were doomed to failure.

Especially after Robert Peel took office, he attached great importance to the British scientific community, and he did not give Franz a chance to see the stitches at all, so he naturally had to give up and wait for the right time.

But Franz was not without success, as he found Zinab Gramm's name on the refugee list.

This dude is a typical example of crooked in human history, and his invention is more of a discovery than an invention.

In one of his exhibitions, he accidentally connected the wrong wire, that is, he connected the electricity generated by another generator to the current output of his own generator.

At this time, he was surprised to find that the current from the first generator entered the armature coil of the second generator, causing the generator to spin rapidly, and the generator became an electric motor.

Then it broke the bottleneck of human use of voltaic batteries and opened a new chapter in history.

There was a lot of luck, but it was also done a thousand times, and he was indeed very talented enough to modify the alternator (but it didn't take it seriously at the time).

This man would be on the list of refugees to make a long story, and his father was a Belgian civil servant who lived in the Jee-Bodne region (in Liège).

However, due to some changes in history, Belgium was partitioned after the Luxembourg crisis. Austria received a share of the Duchy of Liège, which had belonged to Belgium, and his father was laid off after a purge.

Franz did not want to make any major changes, but the top brass of the Austrian Empire were not at ease with the new territory, and various air commands made a lot of complaints.

The Great Replacement was just one of their maneuvers, and other things such as reforming the tax system, reforming the military system, and building military fortresses simply raised Franz's blood pressure, almost overturning his established strategy.

As a result, Gramm's father had no means of subsistence, but unexpectedly became adventurous, so he sold his family property to start a business.

Unexpectedly, the Gramm's family, who were deceived and had no way to return home, could only apply for refugee asylum and move their family to Austria, and even had to consider emigrating overseas.

Because Gramm's grades are very poor, his parents have difficulty having children, and he has no skills. The Austrian government would have been reluctant to leave such people to fend for themselves in the colonies or Hungary.

Fortunately, Franz has been looking for talents to work on generators, and has long made it a priority target. It was only because of his poor academic performance that Austrian intelligence agencies dared to report it to Franz after repeated confirmations.

The achievements of this scientist who can leave a name in history are really bad, so bad that it is hard to believe that he could be a scientist.

Of the fifty students in the class, he was ranked forty-nineth, and almost all the teachers rated him badly.

Franz looked at the family and could hardly find any reason to leave it behind. Just don't look for it, Franz will fund Gramm.

However, he had planned to see the talent in person before that, and his first impression was that the 17-year-old Gram was not as tall as the 13-year-old Franz.

Although I put on a clean dress, I always give people a very sloppy feeling. He didn't dare to look up at people, and he looked very cowardly.

Then began some simple tests, all of which were carried out by professionals, of course, but only for a small number of people.

As expected, this Gram was almost useless as his teachers had appraised, but he had some unusual talent in mechanical assembly methods.

A complex mechanical clock with hundreds of parts, seven or eight according to the drawings. But Gram had only seen the mechanic take it apart once and put it back together perfectly.

This talent caused a mechanic with more than 40 years of experience to exclaim, "Impossible, he must have disassembled this mechanical clock a lot, or worked in a watch shop for many years to achieve this degree." ”

So the master changed to a more complicated thing - the Babbage differential machine, although it is an early model, but the complexity is not comparable to ordinary clocks.

An hour and a half later, Gram assembled the improvised differential machine.

Franz could only sigh "This is genius, right!?" At the very least, this memory and associative ability are far beyond ordinary people. ”

Franz then showed Gramm the latest generator in the hope that he would give some suggestions.

This is, of course, a fool's dream.

However, Franz still extended an invitation to him to become a special citizen of Austria, enjoying free tuition and living allowance.

Graham was thrilled to receive such an invitation, after all, it was much better than going to Africa or Hungary to open up farmland.

But Gram seems to have a misunderstanding, he only wants to be a senior mechanic, he doesn't want to go to school, he just wants to stay with those masters as an apprentice.

Franz is full of black lines, if he just wants a skilled worker, does he need to go to such great lengths?

It's not that Franz doesn't think advanced mechanics are bad, but as the times progress, it becomes more and more difficult to change the world through pure technological innovation.

Theoretical knowledge is a must, and specialists with a lot of practical experience and a wealth of theoretical knowledge are what Austria needs in the future.

In short, Franz expects a lot from him, at least more than he has done in history.

As a result, Gram had to go back to school, but because his foundation was so poor, he was asked to re-enter junior high school at the suggestion of many parties.

Of course, in order to ensure that he would not deviate, Franz hired Gramm's father as a civil servant in Austria.

His only job was to supervise Gramm's schoolwork and two days a week of practical study.

At this time, Graham suddenly made a request, he wanted to have a competition with Franz. Because in the stories he has heard, the descendants of such great nobles are generally wine bags and rice bags, and they can only play tricks.

Gram wanted to see if that was true and if he could defeat the prince as easily as he said in his book.

As a result, Gram couldn't laugh at all, Franz was stronger than him in every aspect, even in terms of strength, and he was beaten at the age of seventeen and was powerless at the age of thirteen.

Especially when the two sides tested their weapons, the other party actually broke their shuriken.

"That's iron," Graham sighed.

Franz let out a disdainful laugh.

"The judges, the judges, and even the audience are all my people! What do you win with?! ”

Gramm, who just felt that he was a genius, was like being poured cold water, and went with his father to go through the enrollment procedures.

"The human heart is sinister!"

At this time, Austria is still enjoying the dividends brought by scientific and technological innovation, and even some industries can lead the world for a long time in the future, but Franz still has some faint worries, after all, the times are developing, and there are not many ways for him to take advantage of it.

The future will depend on the Austrian Empire's own hematopoietic function, but hematopoiesis is easy to say, but it may not improve for decades, and it may also go down the wrong path like Nokia.

Of course, as long as Franz is here, the general direction of history will not be too outrageously wrong.

At this time, Austria already had a first-mover advantage in some industries, but those who traveled a hundred miles were half ninety, and perhaps a little carelessness was just a momentary slack that could be overtaken by others, and eventually lead to the bitter fruit of failure.

Franz had heard too many stories of losers, and no matter how poignant and passionate, he didn't want to end up on the banks of the Danube.

In contrast, Franz prefers to be a winner, even if he wants to be a hero, he wants to be a living hero rather than be remembered.

September 30, 1843.

St. Louis City, Missouri, USA.

At this time, the largest military camp in the United States, Jefferson Barracks, came with an uninvited guest, a graduate of the West Point Military Academy, but his grades can be said to be ridiculously poor.

(Historically, only two regiments were stationed here, but at this time there were nearly 20,000 troops from three divisions.) After all, the situation facing the United States at this time is much more severe than it was in history. ）

Except for equestrianism, the results of artillery, infantry, and cavalry are very poor. And the young officer actually signed up to be a cavalry commander in Kansas, Wyoming, and Idaho, where he faced the Mexicans and the French.

But his results did not reassure the officers of any of the above-mentioned districts, and he became an infantry colonel.

After all, who made him a graduate of West Point and a dad who is mayor?

It's hard to believe that this seemingly loose and weak man in front of him will become the bloody butcher who turned the tide in the American Civil War - General Grant.

I'm sorry, but there have been some things late, and the update is relatively late. Forgive me.

(End of chapter)