Splitting a good train into two pieces has always been a fantasy for Chen Muwu before.

Except when ferries cross the Qiongzhou Strait, this is not the case anywhere else.

But in this day and age, it is commonplace.

Among them, the most representative are the two stations in Qihai, the North Station and the South Station.

Whether it was the General Administration of Roads and Mines in the last years of the Qing Dynasty or the Ministry of Communications in the early days of the People's Republic of China, in that chaotic era, the ability to control the railways nationwide was very limited.

Except for a few railways close to Jingshi or Jingzhao that can be supervised by the government, the construction of railways in other places is basically a joint effort between local governments and squires, such as the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway, one of its local shareholders is Xu Zhimo's father, Xu Shenru.

Anyway, after a long period of tugging between the central government and local people, a tacit understanding has been formed, and no one will take the initiative to break this balance.

The only exception was the intervention of the Qing government, which was short of money and urgency, and wanted to nationalize the Sichuan-Han and Guangdong-Hanzhou railways, which had been confirmed to be commercial, which became the fuse, which directly led to the outbreak of the Kuichang Uprising, and the Qing government itself sent itself to the guillotine.

It is precisely because of this slightly deformed method of railway construction that the road construction agency of each railway has its own independent work and arranges the location of the station in order to meet its own best interests.

The Shanghai-Nanjing Railway to the north chose the starting station in Zhabei close to the northern boundary of the public concession, while the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway to the south chose the starting station in the prosperous commercial place south of the old city of Chenghai.

Because these two stations are one in the south and one in the north, they are distributed at both ends of the entire Qihai, which is not very convenient for people who can afford to take the train inside and outside the concession.

So after the situation settled down a little, the Shanghai-Nanjing Railway and the Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Railway jointly established the Two Railway Administration, which was where Chen Muwu worked before.

The first task of this administration after its establishment was to build a liaison station between the north and south stations of the sea around the concession area, connecting the two railways.

Since then, in the history of the China-China Railway, there is finally the first major artery that can connect the north and south, and a person can take a train from Shaojing, or Harbin and Manchuria, to Lingzhou.

The original plan for the link was to run over the concession via viaducts, like the London suburban railway to Greenwich.

However, because the Ministry of Industry Bureau of the Public Concession and the Public Board of Directors of the French Concession did not agree to this method, they had no choice but to take a long detour.

After the connection line is repaired, and then from Qihai to Lingzhou, passengers can freely choose whether to take the train at the North Station or the South Station.

There will be two trains departing from both stations at about the same time, and the train from the south station will pick up at the new Longhua station behind the train at the north station.

The same is true of the train from Lingzhou to the north to the sea, the passengers who go to the north station sit in the front carriage, and the passengers who go to the south station sit in the rear, and when they arrive at the new Longhua station, they are still split into two sections, and they use two locomotives to reach the two stations.

This way of riding the train continued until 1937.

Not because the two railway bureaus optimized the railway travel, but because in this year, the Hainan station was blown up by the army, and the station has since been erased from the map and reality, completely disappeared.

When the train stops at the platform of Milan Central Station, it can be considered early in the morning of the day.

Most of the people in the same train are still asleep, only Chen Muwu, who is still not used to taking the train for several years, can wake him up from his sleep with a little wind and grass.

Chen Muwu got out of the box, intending to stand in the aisle, to move his tired muscles after a few days of traveling, and to look at the natural scenery of the southern foothills of the Alps through the car window.

It is only more than 50 kilometers from Milan to Como, because this is a special train for physicists, and it will not stop at any station during the period, so it will theoretically only take another hour or so to reach the destination of this trip.

But Chen Muwu had no hope that the train would reach Como on time, even though Italy's propaganda machine was running at full capacity and the newspapers were frantically preaching that "under the rule of the great Prime Minister His Excellency Mussolini, trains throughout Italy are never delayed."

After experiencing the bumpy road conditions of this tourist special railway from the big city of Milan to the scenic resort of Como, Chen Muwu no longer doubts whether the car will be delayed, but is asking the gods to bless him not to have any accidents such as train derailment.

It didn't take long for someone from the other compartments to come out, probably just too tired of the bad condition of the train passing through Milan.

Chen Muwu, who heard the movement, turned his head to look over and found that it was still his old acquaintance.

Once people get older, their sleep time will only get shorter and shorter, and Planck feels that he has gotten up early enough, and as a result, Mo Daojun is early, and there are even more people who come early.

After less than half a year, Planck met Chen Muwu again in Paris yesterday.

He also wanted to find an opportunity to chat with this motivated young student, but Bohr was the first to board the platform, and after getting on the train, Planck, like everyone else, was stopped in the box by physicists from all over the world and took turns to greet him, so the matter was put on hold.

"Professor Planck, we meet again. I wanted to say hello to you yesterday, but ......."

Chen Muwu is thoughtful.

Planck smiled and beckoned: "It's all old men who have retired, and they are no longer professors."

"Dr. Chen, since before the New Year, Albert has been running to my editorial office from time to time and asking him what he is doing, only saying that he is waiting for your paper.

"I have to say that the machine you developed, as well as the experiment you did on this machine, have made a great contribution to the development of physics.

"Albert has been complaining to me for a long time, and even more so after reading your latest Cambridge paper. He complained that I said why I didn't recruit you to the University of Berlin in the first place, and gave up such a good genius to Cambridge in vain.

"Albert is understandably affectionate, so I'm not in a position to talk to him.

"But in fact, I also have my own difficulties, after the end of the war, the German economy has been so bad that even if you go to Berlin, I estimate that the financial resources of the university will not be enough to support you to carry out those experiments and research, let alone build such a large experimental equipment as the particle accelerator. Now that I think about it, I'm even a little glad that you didn't go to Germany. Otherwise, won't it slow down your achievements in physics?

"Oh yes, Dr. Chen, how much does that machine of yours cost? If it's appropriate, I'll see if I can get a bridge out of it and buy one for the University of Berlin. ”

Although Planck has just modestly said that he is retired and no longer a professor at the University of Berlin, he still has a lot of affection for the school where he has worked for decades.

He paved the way in his words for a long time, and even did not hesitate to self-depreciate to praise Chen Muwu, but in the end, he tried to be poor and revealed his true purpose.

Chen Muwu came to participate in this Como conference, in addition to being invited by the organizer, he was also burdened with the task assigned to him by Rutherford:

That is, to try to sell to physicists from various universities and institutes as much as possible the particle accelerator that the Cavendish laboratory has just developed to study nuclear physics.

After being poor for so many years, it's finally our turn to be wide!

And selling this particle accelerator is just a one-shot deal.

Rutherford knew that the principle of this accelerator was not difficult, and its core content was even based on Lord Kelvin's drip accelerator decades ago.

It's just that the Cavendish laboratory is too mysterious and too high-minded, and apart from them, the other physicists in the world have just not been able to lift the veil that covers it.

As long as everyone realizes that the core of a particle accelerator is so simple, it is only a matter of time before imitation and piracy appear.

As for the fact that the patent has already been applied?

The broken thing to prevent the gentleman and not the villain is almost like a dead letter in this era.

And even if you take the patent to the court to fight a lawsuit, the final interpretation right belongs to the court.

In the mid-to-early 20th century, the U.S. Supreme Court fought several well-known patent cases, including who was the first person to discover and apply for a patent for television, but the most famous is the radio patent dispute between Marconi and Tesla.

In some marketing accounts on the Chinese Internet in later generations, they often like to publish false news without verification, such as "After Tesla's death, Marconi admitted that he plagiarized Tesla's inspiration and technology, and preemptively applied for a patent for the radio before Tesla." Accordingly, in 1945, two years after Tesla's death, the U.S. Supreme Court re-ruled that the radio patent was reassigned to Tesla."

There are too many slots in this network segment.

It is estimated that in order to write this fake news, the marketing accounts should have deliberately checked the date of Tesla's birth and death, and also deliberately arranged the date of Marconi's conscience discovery and the re-pronouncement of the US Supreme Court to two years after Tesla's death.

It's just that these marketing accounts checked Tesla, but they didn't bother to think about it, and continued to investigate Marconi, the other side of the lawsuit.

Marconi was already one step ahead of Tesla in 1937, so how did he admit that he had plagiarized Tesla's technology eight years later?

Could it be that Rocky and Doyle are correct, and the spiritism that can communicate with the dead really exists?

Historically, the U.S. Supreme Court did reopen the patent dispute, but not in 1945 but in 1943, the year of Tesla's death.

They did award some of the patents that originally belonged to Marconi to other people after the case was reopened, including not only Tesla, but also the aforementioned Lodge and John Stone Stone.

The reason why the U.S. Supreme Court made these moves was not because they had a conscience and wanted to justify Tesla, a great scientist who had been stigmatized for a long time, but because Marconi's radio company filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court to claim compensation from the U.S. government because of the large patent fees caused by the use of radio communications in World War I.

The Americans didn't want to pay such an astronomical sum of money, so they took another way to steal the day, and directly awarded the slightly controversial patent that originally belonged to Marconi to others.

It can be seen that an empty patent certificate has no effect in the current era.

As long as the other party doesn't want to pay this patent fee, they can always come up with 10,000 ways.

Before arriving in Como, the meeting had not yet been held, and I didn't expect the first customer to be unable to sit still, so he sent himself to the door.

"Professor, how much does this particle accelerator cost?"

Chen Muwu pondered for a while, he was embarrassed and couldn't say it directly, the cost was only twenty pounds.

No, it seems to be more than twenty pounds, including the newly made charge conveyor belt, and the proton source and so on, all added up, the cost of a hundred pounds is always there.

The cost of materials alone is 100 pounds, plus the cost of transporting these things from England to Germany, and the labor cost of going to Berlin with the materials to help install them, Chen Muwu thinks it should be quite appropriate to ask Planck for 5,000 pounds, right?

Although the other party did help him a lot, it is still necessary to distinguish between public and private, and it is still necessary to distinguish between public and private.

Even if there is so much difference with the cost price, when the other party asks, Chen Muwu is not afraid.

Just ask, and he will answer that it is the value of knowledge.

"Reader" and "Yilin" always like to publish that kind of philosophical short stories, and often flaunt their craftsman spirit.

And every time the spirit of craftsmanship is mentioned, the famous circle of 100,000 yuan is indispensable:

There was a problem with the machine in a Chinese factory, no one could find the problem in the whole factory, and in the end there was really no way, the factory director had to contact the manufacturer of the machine, and invited an after-sales engineer from the country of origin, about the maintenance fee of the machine, the other party asked for 100,000 yuan.

As a result, when the engineer arrived at the factory, after inspecting the machine, he just drew a circle on it with chalk and told the factory that the problem was here.

The engineers of the factory dismantled the machine suspiciously, and sure enough, after a few simple tinkering in the circle, it was restored to operation.

The Chinese factory felt that the 100,000 yuan was spent too quickly and too wrongly, and wanted to bargain, but I said that drawing a circle might only be worth one dollar, but knowing where the circle was drawn, it was worth 99,999.

It's doubtful whether this story actually happened, but the protagonist is certainly not himself.

At least Chen Muwu had heard of this in English folklore now, except that the engineer had been replaced by his good friend Kapitsa.

Drawing a circle on the machine turned into smashing the bearing of the hydraulic press with a hammer, and the remuneration also appreciated from 100,000 yuan to 1,000 pounds.

The reason why I say appreciation is because the purchase of 1,000 pounds in 1927 was worth as much as 70,000 pounds a hundred years later.

Chen Muwu also personally asked the parties to verify whether such an incident had really happened.

As a result, there was only a big roll of his eyes and a rather humorous Russian complaint:

"If I really earned this thousand dollars, I would have changed to a new car a long time ago!"

Happy National Day!

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