But Fulton was not discouraged because of this failure and the fact that everyone was ridiculing and laughing at him. In fact, in this strange human world of ours, the people who can really reach the end of success are often those who are different.

, and even someone who can silently bear everyone's ridicule and ridicule. Of course, Fulton is exactly this kind of person. He will not give up at all. In fact, according to our ideological point of view, he has succeeded, because the ship is not without

Instead of moving, it moved and then stopped. This shows that his idea is completely correct, but there are some problems in some other aspects. Then the next thing to do is to correct these problems. After all,

The concept of success originally emerged from the experience summarization and improvement of countless failures.

So Fulton continued his research. He asked for help everywhere and even found Napoleon. As a result, Napoleon thought Fulton was a liar and just wanted to defraud him of his money, so he kicked Fulton out. In fact, this was simply

It was a great opportunity for Napoleon, but Napoleon did not seize it. If Napoleon had seized this opportunity, his future would be bright. Think about it, a ship can be driven by a steam engine. What is the concept? In a naval battle, could Napoleon still lose?

? Even transportation is driven by steam engines. What is the concept of this for the army? You can imagine, this is actually crazy! But Napoleon did not seize this opportunity.

After Napoleon kicked Fulton out, Fulton found the top leaders of the United States. The top thoughts of the United States are completely different from those of other countries. We have analyzed this matter before. Americans do not have past tense ancestral precepts.

Ideological constraints, and the United States is a country with free thoughts. They will focus on a problem from a developmental perspective and conduct multi-faceted analysis and thinking, instead of using limitations, solid old ideas, or even old ideas.

They use historical events to judge a matter, because they have no history and no old solid thoughts. What's more, their thoughts are brand new and are not subject to any limitations.

So after hearing Fulton's words, and then looking at his drawings and so on, the top executives in the United States felt that this was indeed feasible. At this point, the top executives in the United States and American entrepreneurs began to invest in Fulton.

This means that American high-level officials and even American entrepreneurs fully recognize Fulton’s theory. But why would American high-level officials and American entrepreneurs invest in this kind of thing? In fact, it is very simple. First of all, Fulton

What changes is the kinetic energy of the ship, which is really scary, because the ship has always been powered by human power or wind power. If a steam engine is used, this will be a qualitative leap!

So now that Fulton has funds, he has nothing to worry about, so he devotes all his energy to research. After every failure, he always told himself: Once the steam engine ship

If successfully developed, this will be one of the greatest inventions in the history of world ships. I can definitely do it!

In 1807, Fulton tried again on the Hudson River in New York, USA. This time the steamship was named the Claremont. This steamship was larger than the last one.

The ship is forty-five meters long and four meters wide. Moreover, the ship has no mast, no oars, and no sails. It has only a large chimney and a large waterwheel-style wheel on each side of the ship. In fact, from here we

It is not difficult to see the ambitions of American senior officials and entrepreneurs. They are preparing to use large ships to transport goods first. In short, the vision of Americans is completely different from that of normal people and even senior officials in other countries. They see it more clearly.

Far away. But ordinary Americans watching on both sides of the Taiwan Strait still call this ship Fulton's Folly. This actually reflects that ordinary Americans do not seem to have a very high level of vision.

But under the gaze of countless spectators on both sides of the strait, the Claremont left the pier at a speed of nine kilometers per hour, leaving the dock with billowing smoke. The spectators saw Fulton's idiot traveling at a speed exceeding that of an ordinary sailing ship.

As it moved forward, there was a roar of cheers. Fulton, who was operating it personally at the stern, saw the current scene and shed tears of excitement.

But within a short while, the Claremont stopped moving again. Fulton, who was sweating profusely, hurriedly took the tools and repaired it quickly. The Claremont's machinery made a huge roar. At this time, a man on the shore

The lady screamed: Oh my God! That stupid thing moved again! The Clermont, which had eliminated the minor fault, began to move forward through the waves again.

At this time, the total distance from New York to Albaba, a small town on the upper reaches of the Hudson River, was 240 kilometers. An ordinary sailing ship would take two days and two nights, even if there was a tailwind, but the Claremont would take two days and two nights regardless of whether there was a tailwind or not.

, it only took thirty-two hours. Later, Fulton was called: the father of steamships!

At this point, you can already see that Fulton's steam engine ship has been successfully developed, and it only needs to be improved later. In fact, the ships we have today are all evolved from steam engine ships in terms of technical essence.

power system, so everyone must understand the greatness of Fulton, and it is not just that, because if ships can be used, then other means of transportation can also be used. This is simply an incredible expansion.

It's like Fulton pointed out the way for any other means of transportation with steam engines and ships, so Fulton is definitely great.

Of course, we cannot ignore the greatness of Americans’ forward-looking thinking, which is why the United States is developing so fast. Let’s take a small example, like Fulton’s steamship

, the top leaders and even entrepreneurs in the United States do not believe in the feasibility of this kind of thing, so Fulton will not have the funds to continue research. If Fulton can never find someone with broad vision and money to support his research, this will be the end of the world.

Steamships may not appear, and our entire world today will be completely different. Why do we have to make such a judgment? In fact, it is very simple. The engine principles of all transportation vehicles are related to steam engines! This

Just like the creation of Chinese characters, no matter what changes the form of Chinese characters undergoes in the long history, the concept of writing must first appear before all subsequent improvements can be developed.

Let me talk about another topic. In Germany, the influence of the church was relatively strong at the beginning, and people's minds did not seem to be very open. Therefore, Einstein was a lunatic in Germany. We can definitely think that the Germans thought that

Einstein was just a fool, but Roosevelt, a broad-minded American high-ranking official, didn't think so. It was Roosevelt, a high-ranking American, who used his unique point of view to think that Einstein was a genius. That's why our physics books today are so thick.

There are also fission bombs. In fact, fission power stations are also expanded from the principles of fission bombs. Anyway, everything related to fission is expanded from fission bombs. You can imagine how terrifying this is.

Then let's take a negative example. I also watched a movie online. It was a domestic film made in China. I forgot who made it. I only remember that the name of the movie seemed to be "Tai Chi". In this movie

There is a small plot in it, which tells the story of a person who returned from studying abroad. He wanted to electrify the countryside and install electric lights. He used the wheel power of his bicycle to generate electricity and then lit the electric lights. However, some accidents happened in the middle. In short, the village

Everyone in the room didn’t believe that the light could be turned on, and they all mocked and ridiculed the international student. In fact, it is not difficult to see from this that we Chinese people are not open-minded, and our logical thinking is completely thorough.

The solid-state model is too conservative. In fact, our senior officials in the Qing Dynasty in China were also like this. In short, they were unwilling to believe in our own ignorance. We always thought that we already knew everything, so we rejected all foreign ideas and even technologies. This is actually the right thing to do.

This is the biggest reason for the slow development of the Chinese people. What is the reason? It is that we are unwilling to admit our own ignorance, that is, we are unwilling to admit our weakness. If we are unwilling to admit it, it will be impossible to carry out forward development.

Okay, let’s end the above topic here. Before, we were talking about the so-called steam engine, which is also a steamship. At this time, Fulton’s steamship has been completely tested successfully, so this has changed almost all transportation of our entire human race.

The current status of tools has begun to undergo certain changes. After this change, there has been a qualitative change and a leap forward!

Continuing from our previous topic, the successful navigation of steamships greatly stimulated people's enthusiasm for invention and creation. Since steam engines can be used on ships to increase the speed of water transportation, if they can also be used on land

How great would it be to increase the speed of transportation? In other words, Fulton had already brought the concept to us humans at this time. This concept is very important, so many people began to study how to use steam engines.

on land tools.

In 1781, George Stephenson was born into a poor mining family in England. When he was fourteen years old, Stephenson became an apprentice stoker. He liked this job very much and often

Scrubbing the machine very carefully and cleaning its parts. After many times of disassembly and assembly, he gradually mastered some knowledge of the machine's structure and drawing. After a busy day, he had to go to night school to improve himself.

cultural knowledge. Later Stephenson also devoted himself to the research of steam locomotives.

In 1814, Stephenson built a steam locomotive that ran on the railway. However, the structure of this steam locomotive was very simple, the vibration was severe, and the speed was very slow. Someone drove a carriage and raced the train.
Chapter completed!