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Chapter 176 Beginning to Multi-Rivet Steamed Steel

The [-]th birthday of the Grand Duke of Mainz is over. On the surface, it looks lively. The owner celebrated his birthday. One of his granddaughters will marry the grandson of the Grand Duke of Bayern next year. The reorganized army is the prey It is the sum of the Duke of Bain and the Duke of Wessen.

Under the table, the upstream regional cooperation organization reached a preliminary agreement on training the new army. The Duke of Wesson promised to send troops to help defend the territory of Baron Wessen and others in the spring. The Grand Duke of Mainz secretly warned the Helvetia Federation envoy not to After making trouble for Duke Wesson, the flag died down, and Grand Duke Byrne purchased a large amount of grain and canned food at a cheap price.

Frederick stayed for a few more days, then said goodbye to Maria, and returned to Wessenburg in a hot air balloon.

The foreign troubles in the territory were resolved, the marriage was settled, and as long as the internal affairs were in the general direction, Frederick suddenly felt a lot easier.

As soon as people are free, they will start troubles. He has already thought about it, and he will order the tractor out this winter.

Just after the Harvest Festival on November 11, Frederick summoned his elite troops to Benz's carriage workshop.

Benz is in his 30s this year. His family was already a well-known local carpenter when Frederick's great-grandfather came here, and later began to produce carriages for the Wesson family in the era of Frederick's grandfather.

After the bearing came out, Benz made a fortune by modifying the carriage and producing new carriages. Later, he built a new factory with Frederick's investment. The double-horse steel-framed carriage developed last year became the standard equipment of the Wessen Army, so Received a medal after the Six Day War.

This morning, Frederick looked around the crowd in the meeting room. Besides Benz, there were more than a dozen young people who had made their mark in the mechanical field in recent years, including Schmidt and Liebherr, as well as Becher's younger brother. Daughter Katharina.

Seeing that the principal was going to do something new again, and seeing that the battle was still a big move, everyone was gearing up for a big fight. Only Katharina, who appeared on such an occasion for the first time, was a little nervous.

She also found that only herself had no thermos in front of everyone present, and then further found that Benz's thermos had the words "Six-Day Defend War Commendation Conference" printed on it, and Schmidt and many people's cups had "Celebration The 100th steam engine completed", and the Liebherr cup only has a hot air balloon and a date printed on it.

That day, Becher mentioned that her youngest daughter wanted to take up a teaching position at Weissenberg University, and Frederick agreed without thinking about it. After asking her research direction, he decisively let her join the tractor research group.

At the beginning of the meeting, Frederick said: "Today, what we are going to study is a machine powered by a steam engine that can replace mules and horses to plow the land!"

"The design principle of the new agricultural machinery we want to develop can be summed up as 'multi-rivet steamed steel'."

He raised a finger and continued: "The first requirement of the machine is 'multiple'. In order to improve the efficiency of the machine and form a leapfrog development, it must be installed with more plows and more automatic farming machines than the existing farming machines. The seeder must have as many functions as possible."

Then he stretched out his second finger and said: "In order to reduce manufacturing costs and technical requirements, this machine uses rivets to connect, and only a few places that require frequent maintenance use screws."

Then he stretched out his third finger, and after seeing that everyone else had finished taking notes, he said: "To achieve the first goal of the machine, you need to use a steam engine. Start with a 20-horsepower steam engine, and gradually increase the horsepower. It spans 20 to 30 horsepower in three years, and finally reaches 100 horsepower."

Finally, he stretched out his fourth finger and said, "Such a machine must be very expensive, and it won't only be used for a few years. Therefore, in order to improve its strength and service life, the main structure of the entire vehicle is made of steel."

After he finished speaking, he opened the cup without any logo or pattern, took a sip of hot tea slowly, and asked his secretary, Vanessa, to distribute a document to everyone.

This document is a sketch and schematic diagram of the steam tractor as a whole and its various systems. He carefully drew it with a stylus on beeswax paper, then mimeographed it and bound it.

Everyone took it very seriously, especially Katharina, who quickly saw from the catalog that she was responsible for improving the efficiency of the steam engine boiler heating magic circle elements.

In the description, a principle of improving the efficiency of the use of magic elements is mentioned. It is not written here, but it is pointed out to find a certain book in the castle library. There is also a note issued by Frederick on this page to allow borrowing .

Frederick quietly waited for them to finish reading the materials, otherwise he could only talk empty words.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he looked back at the problems encountered in the production and development of steam engines so far.

The biggest problem encountered by the steam engine is the lack of basic theory. Schmidt and others recorded a large amount of data, such as the change of steam pressure and temperature in the cylinder, the energy loss of steam with different pressure and flow rate in different diameter pipes, and the switch of steam valves. The situation is related to the pressure and flow rate of steam, etc., but it is currently impossible to derive a theory from these data that can guide the design.

The reason why such problems are encountered is that the development of mathematical tools is seriously lagging behind and cannot provide help for research, and the Carnot cycle, which is the most important for the study of steam engines, will not be able to appear for a while.

According to the triad theory of "science-technology-engineering", the current development of steam engines can only be regarded as "I'm thinking" engineering, and there is still a long way to go before the emergence of corresponding scientific principles.

To upgrade mathematical tools, first throw out calculus. For this reason, he started to prepare last year, and plans to concentrate on writing a book on the history of mathematics next year, and put calculus in at the end.

It's just that although he had good grades in high mathematics in college in his last life, it was a bit difficult to copy all the textbooks, so he had to try his best to remember.

And even if he does it, it's hard to say how many people will be able to learn it and be able to master it proficiently, and how long the process will take. There are quite a few people who fail high math courses every year.

After about an hour, everyone read the information carefully, and Frederick asked, "What do you think?"

For most of you here, especially Ogilvy's students, propelling a car with mechanical power is to be expected.

When he was in Constantbul, Ogilvy began to study golem puppet horses, hoping to replace expensive war horses. After all, war horses with one or two hundred gold coins are easy to die and become disabled. The robot horse broke four legs and came back to find it. Just replace it with a new one after sale.

It’s just that the technology was just starting at that time, and the speed of the robot horse was too slow, so it could only pull a cart. However, because the amount of magic crystals consumed per [-] kilometers converted into currency was much higher than the grass consumption per [-] kilometers of ordinary pack horses, it was not sold.

After the appearance of the magic reciprocating machine, many people used it to drive the car, but the heat dissipation problem was not solved and it was not very easy to use.

Now the steam engine is used as the power, and the most prominent is a large horsepower. Based on the performance of the recent steam engine, the feasibility of using it to drive vehicles is not low.

But judging from the data, there are still many problems that need to be solved, such as transmission, steering, clutch and brake, etc., which can only be finally determined after a lot of experiments.

Everyone had a preliminary understanding of the tractor in their hearts, and problems naturally emerged, and it was time to solve these problems next.

(End of this chapter)