I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 1060 Accumulation
The Talent Committee took only two hours to complete the acceptance of Whitney's first phase results and readily approved the second grant of 3000 francs.

At the same time, Whitney's research and development site was moved to the National Laboratory under the French Academy of Sciences.

Well, there are even more security personnel here. Whitney even saw guards wearing the French royal emblem.

The next evening, Whitney and his assistants held a simple celebratory banquet and returned to his villa in the University Palace, a little tipsy.

As soon as he entered the room, the maid Renée came up to him and gestured to the drawing room, "Master, Master Perret has brought these two gentlemen to visit you. I will let them go in first."

By the time Whitney handed the hat and coat to Rene, Perret and two men, one tall and one short, had stood up from the sofa and bowed to him.

Ten minutes later, Whitney looked at the two strange men. She was so surprised and happy that she forgot what to say for a moment.

Just now, Perre told him that the two major shareholders of Blythe Steel Company hoped to cooperate with him.

Specifically, he used the new milling machine he was developing to acquire a stake in Blythe Steel, and then used this equipment to participate in the bidding for the "medium and large casting finishing project" of the French Union Steam Engine Company.

Yes, the Talent Committee not only provides inventors with funding and laboratories, but also helps them contact suitable large companies for investment and production - it is impossible for the French government to invest in all technologies, and the government does not have so much money. In addition to some strategic technologies, the industrial revolution still depends on private capital to advance.

After a long while, Whitney finally calmed down and asked cautiously, "Mr. Perret, I have already signed an agreement to give the priority authorization qualification of the rotary milling machine patent to the Talent Committee."

Yes, the French government certainly cannot fund research and development for nothing. The patent naturally belongs to the inventor, but the French government must have priority in patent authorization at the same price. Otherwise, what if you use French funds to complete the research and development, and then turn around and sell the patent to the British?
Perret smiled and said, "Don't worry about that. Blaise Steel is a company certified by the French Engineering and Technology Association. The government will transfer the patent license to them."

Generally speaking, the French government acts as an "angel investor" and then sublicenses new technologies to high-quality companies for mass production.

Complete the R&D-investment-production cycle with extremely high efficiency.

Seeing that Whitney didn't say anything, Pere thought he was worried about being at a disadvantage, so he explained: "The entire cooperation process is carried out under the supervision of the Talent Committee. If Blythe Steel Company fails to fulfill its investment commitment or damages your interests, the committee will step in to help you protect your rights.

"Of course, if you fail to achieve the R&D goals on time, you will have to return the company shares you obtained.

"What do you think, Mr. Whitney?"

Whitney was startled and nodded quickly: "Okay, okay, I'd love to!"

In fact, he was distracted just now because he was too excited.

Bryan Steel promised to give him 5% of the shares. According to Perret's introduction, the market value of Bryan Steel was more than 200 million francs.

That means these shares alone are worth 10 francs!
In addition, there is income from patent licensing and the salary the company gives him...

In other words, once the rotary milling machine is invented, he will become a super rich man in an instant!
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Eastern Southern Netherlands.

In the alloy steel experimental workshop of the Royal Ironworks of Namur, intermediate technician Jacques Lenoir walked towards the scrap pile with difficulty, holding a large piece of metal scrap.

“There’s less than a year left,” he sighed, shaking his head and muttering, “There’s still no progress on my brother’s side.

"I should have stopped him from borrowing so much money. Now, the factory left by my father may not be able to be saved..."

His family started with his grandfather, who opened a workshop to make automatic watchmaking equipment. Under the careful management of his father, Pierre Etienne Lenoir, it developed into a factory with more than 90 workers. Today, the factory is handed over to his brother.

More than half a year ago, his brother Philip Lenoir heard that the United Steam Engine Company was bidding for equipment that could complete the finishing of medium and large steel parts, with a minimum purchase quantity of 25 units, so he decided to take a gamble on this big business.

Philippe mortgaged his family's factory for 7 francs for research and development, but soon discovered that his previous plan to enlarge the equipment for processing watch parts was simply unfeasible.

When the equipment size increases to a certain extent, the processing accuracy will drop sharply.

At present, Philip has spent more than half of the loan, but the milling machine he designed can only achieve an accuracy of 2 mm.

This is more than ten times short of the United Steam Engine Company's requirement of 0.15 mm.

Jacques Lenoir came to the scrap heap and threw the piece of metal in his hand into it with force, but in the process, he accidentally kicked something hard.

He looked down and saw an irregular piece of metal at the edge of the scrap pile. The protruding edges had pierced a hole in the boots he had just bought last year.

"Damn it!" He touched his boots with heartache, picked up the black waste angrily, and threw it into the garbage heap.

There was a crisp sound of metal colliding.

Lenoir, who had taken revenge, was about to turn around and leave, but was suddenly startled, then slowly turned around, staring into the scrap pile with wide eyes.

The iron block just now hit the metal scrap that he had discarded earlier, leaving a noticeable small hole in it.

He knew very well that what he had just thrown away was a piece of high manganese steel. That thing was so hard that it could be carved like wood using ordinary high carbon steel.

And that piece of black waste actually made a hole in the high manganese steel!

This shows that its hardness has reached an incredible level.

He hurriedly entered the scrap pile, carefully picked out the piece of iron, then compared it with the place where it was discarded and quickly returned to the experimental workshop.

All the waste was discarded in chronological order, so he quickly determined that the thing was thrown away the afternoon before yesterday.

A total of 12 experiments were conducted the day before yesterday afternoon...

Soon, Lenoir excitedly took the experimental batch he had found and came to the chief technician Wandell: "Mr. Wandell, I have a new discovery!"

After he explained the situation, Wandell looked at the experimental records and shook his head, saying, "If I remember correctly, this is an experiment on high manganese steel containing 0.3% manganese, but the silicon impurities in the raw materials were not cleaned up. Although it is very hard, it will become brittle."

Lenoir nodded. "It's not suitable for making bearings or pressure-resistant pipes, but it should be very good for making knives. I want to do some in-depth research on this. Is that okay with you?"

"Knife?" Wandel was a little confused.

"Things like milling cutters and turning tools have a wide range of uses."

(End of this chapter)