Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1080, Manufacturing a machine that calculates time
Inside the Beijing School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhu Houzhao, who was all dirty, looked at Liu Jin, and asked in surprise, "Old Liu, why are you here?"

"I heard that His Highness has researched a lot of new things recently, so I came here to take a look."

Liu Jin said with a smile.

The Zhu Houzhao in front of him, although he is very young now, he is only 13 years old, but in the field of machinery, he is already a master figure, and he has won the title of professor of the School of Machinery.

Like Daming Medical College, all the colleges founded by Liu Jin have classified the occupational grades of teachers and relevant practitioners, and all need to obtain relevant professional qualification certificates, and professors are the highest-level professional titles.

Zhu Houzhao was able to obtain the title of professor at a young age, which shows that his talent in this area is definitely a genius, and he is very obsessed with researching machines.

The team led by Zhu Houzhao has already researched many machines, such as steam engines, steam tillage machines, steam harvesters, etc. He is also participating in the research of steam ships and steam locomotives.

Once these two things are successfully studied, the significance will be extraordinary. Once the steam train and steam ship come out, history will enter a new era.

"Haha, how do you know that I have made a breakthrough recently?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he couldn't help but smiled triumphantly, and then took Liu Jin to his laboratory.

"Uh, I've heard people say that too."

Liu Jin froze slightly in embarrassment, that's all he said, but he didn't expect that Zhu Houzhao actually researched something new.

"Come on, come on, let me show you my new baby."

Bringing Liu Jin to his laboratory, Zhu Houzhao pointed to a machine tool and said, "Guess what is the use of this machine?"

Liu Jin took a closer look at the machine tool. It was not very complicated. It was mainly a stick-like thing driven by a steam engine, and the tip of the stick seemed to be very sharp.

"Is this a milling machine or a drilling machine?"

Liu Jin looked carefully, this should be a kind of machine tool, but he was not familiar with all kinds of machine tools, so he didn't know these things.

"Haha, don't you know?"

Zhu Houzhaojian and Liu Jin next to him didn't know its function, so they smiled smugly.

"This is called a drilling machine, and it can be specially used to build seamless parts."

"Well, this thing took me a lot of thought to research. Don't look at it, it seems very simple, that is, a steam engine drives the drill to rotate and cut the parts that need to be processed."

"But it contains extremely high technical content. For example, if the power output of this steam engine can be guaranteed to be stable, so that the cutting can be stable."

"Another example is this drill bit. Don't underestimate this drill bit. It is very sharp and cuts iron like mud. It can easily cut steel into chips."

"Also, it gets hot when cutting. How to solve this problem also requires technology."

"Hum~"

"Although it is inconspicuous, it seems that it is not as huge as a steam cultivator or a harvester, but its role is very huge. With it, we can use the entire casting to process seamless parts."

"Using it to process the barrels and barrels of guns and cannons can not only improve the power of guns and artillery, but also improve the service life, and can hit farther, more accurately and faster."

"Using the cylinders processed by it has directly increased the power of our steam engine several times, and now the most powerful steam engine produced has reached a power of more than 100 horses."

When he said this, Zhu Houzhao raised his head proudly, as if he was waiting for Liu Jin's praise.

"Amazing~"

"It's really amazing."

"With such a machine, we can manufacture all kinds of powerful machines in the future. This can be regarded as the mother machine of many machines."

When Liu Jin heard it, he couldn't help admiring immediately.

This drilling machine is actually one of several main machine tools. As long as there are several main machine tools, it can basically be processed into various complex machines.

Liu Jin didn't expect that in just a few years, Daming would be able to manufacture a drilling machine, even though this thing doesn't seem to have much technical content.

But anyone who drives a machine knows its important function. With it, it is not a problem to process various parts, and then to manufacture various machines.

"Haha, it's Lao Liu, you know the goods, unlike other people, although they all say that they are amazing and amazing, but they can't say anything about it."

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he laughed happily.

It's still Liu Jin who knows the goods and knows the usefulness and importance of this drilling machine.

"Your Highness is amazing. If you can invent such a machine, my Ming's mechanical technology will surely take off in the future."

Liu Jin continued to flatter.

"Haha, that's right, don't even look at who I am."

"I'm the youngest professor in the School of Mechanics, and I'm not only good at machinery, I'm also studying metallurgy and shipbuilding recently, and I'm going to be a professor at the School of Metallurgy and a professor at the School of Naval Architecture."

"Hmph, I'm a genius!"

Zhu Houzhao was not humble at all, and he was elated and elated when he heard Liu Jin's praise.

This guy is like this, he is extremely intelligent, he can learn everything very quickly, except that he is not suitable to be an emperor, in fact, he can do anything and can achieve something.

"By the way, Old Liu, you must have something to come to the School of Mechanical Engineering, right?"

After being proud, Zhu Houzhao looked at Liu Jin, thought for a while and asked.

Liu Jin is very busy, and he knows it. He used to have time to travel around with him, but now he is busy going around. He must have something to do here.

"There is indeed something~"

"I came to the School of Mechanics this time mainly to entrust the School of Mechanics to make a machine that can be used to calculate time."

Liu Jin smiled and nodded to express his purpose.

"A machine that counts time?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard it, he was taken aback for a moment, thought for a while and said, "Aren't there many machines for calculating time now?"

"Such as hourglasses, water leaks, sundials, louvers, etc. Isn't that enough?"

"Not enough, far from enough~"

Liu Jin shook his head slightly and said: "These time-calculators can only be regarded as tools, not machines. They can only roughly know the time, but it is difficult to be accurate to a very small and detailed point."

"Just like now, we can roughly know the time in Shen, but can you know how long until You time?"

"Moreover, our division of time is as short as a quarter, and there is no precise subdivision. This is obviously not possible, especially when your highness is studying these mechanical technologies, if you can accurately know the time, you can Calculate a lot of things out."

"For example, if the drilling speed of this drill is calculated in one hour, the number is very large. If we divide an hour into [-] equal parts, it can be calculated relatively easily, and then continue to divide. We know the passage of time almost exactly."

"In addition, these tools for calculating time are affected by many factors and are not accurate. We need to use machines to create a machine that can accurately calculate time, so as to accurately calculate the time of day."

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but nodded after thinking for a while.

"I found out about this a long time ago."

"Many units of measurement in our Ming Dynasty are very large and inaccurate, and it is more troublesome to calculate. For example, when calculating weight, the smallest is two, followed by catty. There is no smaller unit than two, which is very unfavorable. The exact calculations we're doing in our research."

"There is also the unit of length. In this regard, the School of Naval Architecture has done a good job. It has carried out precise division and definition, and can carry out accurate calculation and measurement."

"The calculation of time you mentioned is also something that has always given me headaches."

"The length unit, weight unit, volume unit, etc., you have already had people subdivide and unify them, and many industries and schools under your command have also promoted and used them."

"Only the calculation of this time, because there is no accurate timer, is also for us to study, which adds a lot of trouble."

Zhu Houzhao also has a deep understanding of this matter.

Daming's technology has developed very fast in recent years, especially with the appearance of the steam engine, which has driven the development of the textile industry, and machinery has continuously entered more and more production areas.

Like the textile industry, almost all of them have begun to use new spinning machines and looms, and some have even been used to tidy spinning machines and looms.

All of these played a role in driving the technological development of Daming, because the development of machinery inevitably requires the support of various technologies.

In the process of technological development, researchers like Zhu Houzhao, who are at the forefront of research, naturally gradually realized many things that limit technological development, including these most basic weights and measures.

"So, let's see if you can create a machine that can accurately calculate time?"

Liu Jin said with a smile.

"Of course, there is something that can be done to me."

Zhu Houzhao patted his chest and said confidently: "Isn't it just a time-calculating machine, it will definitely not trouble me, and I want to make the most accurate machine."

"Your Highness, this time-calculating machine is not so easy to make. Otherwise, I'd better talk to Ren Siheng and let him arrange someone to do it."

Liu Jin said with a smile.

"Who do you look down upon~"

"You wait, it won't take a month, I will make it for you."

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately said angrily.

(End of this chapter)