The Bohemian mines, Solomon was reluctant to take over because he naturally wanted to wait for the government to make concessions, but Franz did not want to wait, and Austria's industrial development could not afford to wait.

A banker named Artiice showed great interest in this, and although he had less than a tenth of Solomon's wealth, there seemed to be no better candidate for him.

The Bank of Artiice was one of the top 10 banks in Vienna (at the bottom of the list), and the banker was a converted Jew to Catholicism, so he could be said to have stacked the attributes of the back, and I am afraid that the Jews would not be on his side at that time.

However, this is the kind of person that Franz and the Austrian Empire needed at this time, and it was impossible to think quickly and well, without bearing any sinful karma.

Of course, as far as Franz is concerned, there is no reason to give up without trying.

The first is to ban small coal kilns, which at that time did not have the possibility of potential safety hazards, but some safety in the danger.

The protective measures are almost zero, the miners can only bring their own canaries to judge whether there is danger, mining tools can only be purchased by themselves, and what is even more terrifying is that they have to rely on ladders or ropes to enter and exit the mine.

That's right, a person has to carry a wicker basket and load more than a hundred catties of ore inside, and then climb a ladder more than twenty meters long, or wrap himself and the basket with a rope, and let the guy above turn the winch to pull himself up.

Adults have to bend down to pass through the narrow lanes, which is why a large number of children are employed.

It is said that 40% of the miners of this era will die in the first year, or be incapacitated. After that, another 40 per cent were eliminated in the second year, the same in the third year, and only 6.4 per cent were still alive by the beginning of the fourth year.

This is still a relatively formal "big mine", and it is really unimaginable that there is no record of "small kiln".

There is a legend that whenever a child laborer dies in a mine, people bury his body near the mine and plant a small flower.

Therefore, when people see flowers all over the mountains near the mines, they should not admire the wonder and magnificence of nature, but should be in awe of the spirits of the dead under those flowers.

In addition to safety, the efficiency of small kilns is also very low.

The Austrian Imperial Industry developed rapidly, and it was certainly not possible to rely only on people's backs and pickaxes, and only people as the driving force would eventually be eliminated.

The first thing Franz had to solve was the access problem, and that was the lift. Since Babbage can build a lift seat several meters high, it will not be difficult to make a lift more than ten meters high.

In fact, there were already steam hoists in this era, but this thing was still a bit too backward, and there was also a great danger.

(There are more advanced ways to use it in the UK, but it hasn't been spread on the continent yet.) ）

Some mineral museums in Germany and Poland still have this simple machine, consisting of two huge wooden stakes with handrails and hooks, which are actually steel nails embedded in them.

The steam machine above drives the stake to move, and all one has to do is to hold on to the handrail and fix the body to move with the stake until the position he wants to reach and then jump off the stake by himself.

(The so-called mineral museum is actually an abandoned mining area, which is actually called mine tourism by the locals.) ）

The danger may not be understood by the above description, but in fact the machine was not controlled by humans at the time, and the steam engine was constantly running.

And except for the lowest layer, in fact, there is a distance between each layer and the stakes, you need to jump up and down, as long as you are a little careless in the pit more than ten meters deep, if you fall down the result can be imagined.

Mine hoists are not very complicated, they have been used by the British since before the introduction of the World Expo in 1851.

The experts of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Vienna quickly came up with several options, and in the end Franz chose the hydraulic lift, because this was the most historically appropriate and Austria was the world leader in hydraulic technology.

Then there are the railroad tracks, and now Austria's steel production is rising, but it is not enough to produce it without consumption.

In the past, due to cost issues, few people would choose to lay rails in the mine, after all, the labor cost is so cheap.

But now that Austria's iron-making and steel-making technology has developed by leaps and bounds, the increase in production has led to a shortage of raw materials, and the price of minerals has also risen, so it is desirable to increase production efficiency.

And at the same time, it can also make those miners suffer less.

At the same time, a large number of safety lights and helmets have also been developed, which can be sent to the mine for rent by miners and can also improve their survival chances.

Moreover, the safety lamps made by the experts of the Royal Academy of Sciences are obviously stronger than the latest invention of the British.

Days discovered that the flame could not pass through the small holes in the fine gauze, which meant that the flame inside the gauze did not ignite the gases in the atmosphere outside the lamp.

Days was one of the most famous scientists of his time, and his invention became the basis for most subsequent flame safety lamps.

Later, the rest of Europe followed suit and developed a whole bunch of different types of safety lights, but in the wrong direction, they only looked at how to make the lights brighter and cheaper, not safer.

In fact, after the widespread use of safety lamps (around 1860), the probability of explosions did decrease, but almost every year there were several 100-person mine disasters that shocked the world.

There was also a "gas inspector" job that would lead to the creation of a "gas inspector" who would normally pack himself in a water-soaked sack and explore the mine with a burning candle attached to it on it, proving that the mine was safe if it did not cause an explosion.

The opposite is dangerous.

It's a good method, but it's a bit of a waste.

Naturally, everyone at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Vienna will not also play this low-end product, and there is Franz grasping the general direction, and the real safety of the safety lamp can be warned.

So the Austrian version of the Claus hydrogen lamp was born at this time, the biggest feature of this safety lamp is that it will suddenly turn bright and warn after encountering methane.

The price is relatively high, but the miners praise it and would rather rent the lamp at a high price than buy other kinds of lamps made in other countries at a low price.

After all, no one wants to die if they can live.

The advent of this new type of safety light has led to a sharp decline in mining accidents in Austria, after all, most miners in neighboring countries do not even know what safety lights are.

At the same time, various mining machines such as splitters, excavators, and cutting machines are also being developed, after all, before 1860, the only mining tools in the world were pickaxes and shovels.

Franz's heavy investment in the extractive industries would later pay off handsomely for the Austrian Empire.

In fact, there were many mining universities in the Austrian Empire, but these universities still used the textbooks of the British decades ago, so no matter what kind of talent they absorbed, they were all stupid donkey horses.

Franz naturally did not let this happen again, and under his impetus the University of Mines underwent a comprehensive overhaul and made practice one of its most important assessment items.

Instead of becoming a scapegoat for the Austrian Empire, the banker Artiace turned into a mining tycoon.

(End of chapter)