At the request of Britain, France, and Russia, Arthur sold them more than 300 old first-generation military aircraft from the inventory of the Aeronautical Research Laboratory, and sold them complete first-generation military aircraft technology.

Although the technology was transferred, it was not a loss at all for Arthur. Based on Australasia's current pool of aerodynamics and aircraft manufacturing professionals, it is unlikely that a single country will be able to catch up with Australasia's progress in terms of aircraft.

A few years ago, Australasia was home to nearly a third of the world's talent, and now it's only going to grow.

Unless the remaining European specialists can unite, Australasia's superiority in aircraft will not be compensated for in a short time.

Without Australia's intervention and participation, it would have taken at least about a decade for European countries to develop a military aircraft at the current level of Australasian fourth-generation aircraft.

Australasian aircraft can also be updated at least twice in this decade, and as the performance of the aircraft becomes better and better, the gap between Australasia and other countries in terms of aircraft will only get wider.

This is actually the benefit of talent pool. Knowing this, Arthur used the Victoria Award to buy a lot of top talent around the world for his own use and that of Australasia.

At present, Australasia's talent pool is already very rich, and the top talent pool of some industries is not inferior to that of European powers.

According to rough statistics, by 1915, Australasia had excavated at least 1,000 physics and chemistry experts from Europe, at least 100 internationally renowned experts, and countless well-known experts in the industry.

Although the Royal Australasian Society for the Study of Physical Chemistry uses at least $5 million a year in research funding, the results of these experts have led to significant progress in all aspects of Australasia.

As a result, the Victoria Prize is still being held as usual in Europe, and the brutal war in Europe has not affected the awarding of what is already considered to be the highest award in academia.

Of course, it's not yet time for the Victoria Prize to be presented in the new year. But Arthur's efforts to woo talent will not stop at any time.

On July 1, 1915, Barty, the head of the Royal Security Intelligence Service, reported to Arthur the good news that there were many talented people in the new round of 200,000 Russian immigrants.

Although Russia is not as good as the top powers such as Britain, France, and Germany in terms of scientific research, this does not mean that there is a shortage of talents in the wider Russia.

On the contrary, there are many talented people in Russia, but a considerable part of them are not reused by the current Russian government.

If Russia did not have talent, the Soviet Union would not have quickly become a superpower alongside the United States.

It took some time to investigate the 200,000 Russian immigrants, but that time was nothing compared to the reports that followed.

The new batch of Russian immigrants included talents in agriculture, industry, physics, chemistry, and even aerodynamics, airship and aircraft construction.

The most notable name is undoubtedly Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who is not famous in Russia.

Arthur was also familiar with this famous name, and in later generations, Tsiolkovsky was known as the founder of modern cosmonautics and the father of astronautics.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was born in 1857 and is currently 58 years old.

Tsiolkovsky was born into an ordinary peasant family in the Ryazan province of Russia, and because of the poor family living environment, and because Tsiolkovsky had a severe cold at the age of ten, which led to scarlet fever, and eventually almost completely lost his hearing, he was not sent to Moscow until he was 16 years old.

Speaking of which, we have to mention European education during that period. Unlike the unified college entrance examination, which was known in later generations, most of the education in the West at this time was based on the application system, and universities conducted examinations according to their own enrollment conditions, and the best students were enrolled.

Of course, Tsiolkovsky, who received his education at the age of 16, naturally could not enter the university to study. In order to learn more, Tsiolkovsky spent three years completely immersed in the library, taught himself analytic geometry, advanced algebra and calculus, learned about physics, chemistry and mechanics, and was very fond of astronomy and magazines.

The 16-year-old boy, who had no education, taught himself advanced algebra and calculus and had to praise Tsiolkovsky's intelligence.

After returning from school, Tsiolkovsky passed the exams of the village high school and became a mathematics teacher in a small city middle school.

On the premise of teaching and educating people, Tsiolkovsky set up a laboratory by himself, and began independent research while teaching.

During this time, Tsiolkovsky published dozens of papers, which were not only frequently sent to the Physics and Chemical Society in St. Petersburg, but also praised by the famous Russian scientist Mendeleev.

Later in his research, Tsiolkovsky shifted his interest to airships and proposed the idea of an all-metal rigid airship.

The St. Petersburg government was so pleased with this idea that it hired Tsiolkovsky as an airship specialist.

In fact, before the outbreak of World War I, Tsiolkovsky had already lived a petty bourgeois life. As a Russian airship specialist, he receives a salary of about 1,200 rubles a year, which is not much, but it is quite sufficient.

But the good times didn't last long. After the outbreak of World War I, Tsiolkovsky's overseer airship was put on the battlefield and was quickly destroyed by Germany and Austria-Hungary.

Although Russia also destroyed airships from Germany and Austria-Hungary, the news of the failure of a large investment in airships made Russia quickly abandon the entire airship research laboratory, and Tsiolkovsky, as an airship expert, also successfully became a vagrant and lost his golden job.

Although Tsiolkovsky was able to return to the middle school as his own ordinary teacher, the seeds of Tsiolkovsky's spaceflight had already been planted when he was an airship expert, and it was impossible for him to stop researching at this time.

It's like taking off his pants halfway but the other party says that relatives are coming, Tsiolkovsky scratches his ears and cheeks in a hurry, and finally chooses to look for new research opportunities abroad under the persuasion of his family.

Australasia became Tsiolkovsky's first target. For no other reason, a friend of Tsiolkovsky's joined a university in Australia, and at the invitation of his friend, Tsiolkovsky decided to submit his resume to a university in Australasia in search of an opportunity to become a professor at one of them.

Tsiolkovsky had already published a number of papers on rocket theory and space flight in scientific reports, and it was these well-known papers that made Director Batty quickly notice Tsiolkovsky and report to Arthur.

As an expert in rocket theory and space flight, Arthur is undoubtedly very welcome.

What's more, the other party still voted with his family, and for such an expert who has no background and is dedicated to scientific research, Arthur can be said to be the one who does not refuse.

In early July, Arthur met with Tsiolkovsky at the Sydney Palace and had a long and pleasant conversation with Tsiolkovsky about rocket theory.

Tsiolkovsky, who was later praised as the founder of modern cosmonautics and the father of aviation, had undoubted his abilities and many ideas.

It is these unique ideas that have laid a solid foundation for the future of astronautics and astronautics.

Arthur was pleased with Tsiolkovsky's ideas and abilities, and immediately promised to give Tsiolkovsky an honorary professor at the Royal Military College of Sydney Aviation College, and to be named at the Royal Australasian Society for the Study of Physical Chemistry.

After all, Tsiolkovsky is 58 years old, and Arthur's greatest hope is to recommend the foundations of Australasian cosmonautics and astronautics, and by the way, study and study rockets.

The purpose of the attachment to the Association for the Study of Physical Chemistry was to allow Tsiolkovsky to receive more research funding and access to more advanced research laboratories.

As for his position at the Royal Military College of Sydney's School of Aeronautics, Arthur also hopes that Tsiolkovsky can train more talents for Australasia and promote the development of Australasia's aerospace and aerospace industry in a more practical way.

This can be regarded as a layout for the future, although it is impossible to develop a rocket in a short period of time and realize space travel.

But at least it can lay a solid foundation for the future and be one step ahead of other countries in this regard.

After all, at this time, other countries were still busy with the First World War, and the simplest basic military aircraft was already the pinnacle of their current aviation.

Other countries are researching aircraft, Australasia is researching rockets, which is already leading on a huge level.

Tsiolkovsky was also very satisfied with Arthur's arrangement. He came to Australasia only in search of an opportunity, an opportunity to continue his theoretical research in rocketry and astronautics.

Unexpectedly, when he first came to Australasia, he was appreciated by Arthur, and not only successfully entered the Royal Military College of Sydney, the top university in Australasia, but also entered the Royal Physical and Chemical Research Association of Australasia.

Of course, Arthur's reward to Tsiolkovsky did not end there. A property in Sydney, as well as the work of Tsiolkovski's family, were settled by Arthur in one sentence.

Even Arthur promised that as long as Tsiolkovsky made good progress in theoretical research, the aviation laboratory would be handed over to Tsiolkovsky in the future, and he would really devote himself to aviation research.

At present, the main business of aviation laboratories is to research and manufacture aircraft, and as the importance of aircraft increases, it is necessary to build independent aircraft research and manufacturing plants.

The Aviation Laboratory is a good place to divide the aircraft and aviation aspects, with the aircraft business setting up a new aircraft factory and the aviation laboratory being engaged in aviation research.

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