Berlin Electric Power Company.

Located in Berlin's Ostpole, this small location is a transitional zone between the city and the countryside, and a gray-and-white building is the office of the Berlin Electric Power Company.

After the completion of the castle, Ernst returned to Berlin because the first results of the Berlin Electric Power Company came out.

At Ernst's reminder, Berlin Electric Power has been focusing on one thing: experimenting with wick materials for electric lamps.

Ernst remembered the example of Edison improving the electric light and experimented with many materials, and finally chose carbide cotton fiber, and later switched to bamboo fiber, so it provided some convenience for the staff.

Ernst walked into the company, questioned the employees, and knew that Karl von Linde was in the laboratory, and Ernst came to the laboratory door and pushed the door open.

The laboratory was littered with tugging wires and all kinds of experimental equipment were arranged in a haphazard manner, and Ernst cautiously crossed the various equipment to see Karl von Linde sitting upright in his chair drawing drawings.

Ernst did not dare to disturb Carl von Linder, after all, the imagination of genius is the most precious, and if he accidentally interrupted Carl von Linder's precious train of thought, he would lose a lot.

Ernst quietly found a chair and sat down gently while Karl von Linde finished his work.

In such a quiet laboratory, you can only hear the ticking of the clock and the rustle of pencils rubbing against the paper.

After some time, Ernst was about to doze off, when the sound of sorting paper was heard, and Karl von Linde bothered himself and yawned.

It was only then that Carl von Lind, who had finished his work, noticed that there was an extra person in the lab.

"Your Highness Ernst, I'm really sorry why you came, because I was too focused on my work to pay attention to your arrival!"

Ernst got up and moved his muscles and said, "Why doesn't Mr. Lind be called to clean?" The lab is too messy, will this affect your research? ”

Carl von Linde explains: "Well, I'm a person who can only organize my thoughts better when I'm alone, so I don't usually let anyone else into my room. Moreover, these instruments and tools are part of the experiment, and there are too few people in the company who understand this area, or they are not professional enough, and I am worried that they will mess with the instruments and cause some of my experiments to be destroyed.

Of course, I also wanted to work in a neat environment, but scientific research work is like this, and from time to time inspiration and some experimental verification, so that there are more and more instruments and wires, and then I simply gave up the plan to tidy up the laboratory. Carl von Lind explains.

"I see!" It dawned on Ernst that the world of genius was unusual, and that some people were simply lazy.

"Mr. Linde, if you need anything, you can tell me in advance, of course, I came here today mainly to see the electric light!" Ernst preached.

Carl von Linder heard Ernst say this and began to show the results to Ernst.

"Your Highness Ernst, please follow me!"

So, guided by Carl von Linder, the two walked up the stairs to a laboratory on the ground floor, where several staff members were refining things in a furnace, and Ernst guessed that they were refining materials.

Carl von Linde came to the shelves and took down a box full of oval spheres made of glass, and inside the balls were strangely shaped wicks, all handmade.

"Mo Gengsi, come and demonstrate!" Carl von Linde beckoned a staff member.

Employees show the working principle of the ball in front of Ernst.

"Boss, this is the socket, the bottom of this bulb is the plug, we directly plug this bulb into the plug, and the current passes through the wick inside, and it can emit light......"

As he spoke, he plugged the bulb into the socket, and the bulb in front of him immediately lit up, and the wick burned red, emitting a dazzling light yellow light.

After a while, the lights did not appear abnormal, and the staff breathed a sigh of relief.

Ernst asked, "How long can this lamp be on?" ”

"About six hours!" The staff replied.

Karl von Linder explained: "Your Highness Ernst, it is the case that after you have provided us with the right ideas, we have indeed made a finished product, but some hardware is not yet possible with current scientific developments. ”

"For example, this bulb, its wick needs a completely vacuum environment to be used effectively, but the vacuum technology of the current era cannot do this, and there are no instruments and patents on the market that can achieve this purpose, so we can only do it."

Ernst asked, "Is there a solution?" ”

"That's what I'm about to say, I'm currently working on improving the existing vacuum technology in the market, and I've been working on it for the past few days, but I haven't made any substantial gains."

Ernst pinched his chin with his hand and thought about it carefully, although Carl von Linde had many achievements in the field of electric applications, but when it came to precision instruments, Lenovana and his gang studied the internal combustion engine all day long, and the airtightness and reliability required by the internal combustion engine were extreme, and there could be no mistakes, and the study of machinery was more professional.

So he opened his mouth and proposed: "Why don't you do this, Mr. Linde, vacuum technology has very high requirements for equipment, and you also know that I have an energy and power company under my name, and their researchers have been dealing with machinery for a long time, and the precision and quality requirements of machinery are very high, we can ask if they have any solutions for this!" ”

Carl von Lind agreed, after all, it was too difficult to do it alone, and it was still an area that he was not very good at.

So Ernst and Carl von Linde took a horse-drawn carriage to the headquarters of the Berlin Energie Power Company not far away, and it was already afternoon, and Lenoir and the others had not yet left.

"Monsieur Lenoir!"

Ernst called over Lenoy and the others.

"Your Highness Ernst, do you have anything to tell you about the company today?"

"That's ......"

Ernst told Carl von Linde about what happened to Lenoir and others, and at the same time introduced the top management of the two companies to get to know each other.

"Is that so?" When Lenoir heard this, he found a piece of paper and drew it, and after a while, asked, "Can Monsieur Linde lend me your drawing?" ”

Luckily, Ernst and Linde arrived with Linde's research papers, which they handed to Lenoir.

Time passed with the hands for a second, and it dawned on Lenoir.

"This idea is very good, Mr. Linde, this method is feasible, but we need to adjust the direction, and now the breakthrough point of the problem is not in the structure, but in the research and development of materials, which I happen to have some experience."

So two bigwigs in different fields happily argued, and Benz and others also joined in, and with the heated discussion of several people, the drawings were overturned and redrawn again and again.

Before I knew it, the group of people had been chatting until the evening, the moon was already hanging high in the sky, and Ernst, the scumbag, could only call a cup of coffee and wait for the big guys to finish their discussion.

“…… This last problem is solved, Mr. Linde! Lenoir said excitedly.

"Great, the biggest obstacle to improving the electric light has been solved, thank you so much, Monsieur Lenoir!" Linde also said excitedly.

In the end, Lenoir and Linde concluded that the improved vacuum technology would take at least three months of experimentation to turn the principle into reality, and the two parties reached a brief cooperation.

The patents for the new technology are jointly applied for by all the researchers, and the ownership is in the Heixingen Bank, and they will enjoy a 20% share in the future.