Chapter 424: The Appearance of Clocks (1)
The development of electricity and the emergence of electric lights have changed the lifestyle of many people.
First of all, the time when the Fangmen is closed at night in Chang'an, that is, the time for curfew is extended to midnight. In this way, for some playboys, they began to live a day and night out.
Naturally, some places have also extended service hours, such as restaurants, brothels, gambling places, and even various shops. Similarly, the people working here have also extended their working hours accordingly.
In addition, some factories have also started working hours in two shifts, one day shift and one night shift. However, it has not reached the point of working in three shifts. However, this kind of thing is also very fast. As long as the production task requires, there will be a factory and mine that will immediately appear.
And now the only thing that keeps going day and night is the only trains on the railway. They basically have no stop time and are running on the railway. Although the road is more than 200 miles or less than 300 miles, it is not very long, but there are still many goods that need to be transported by railways. In addition, the transportation of materials and passenger transport services of the railway itself make this railway very busy. Who made this railway near Chang'an City?
Under such conditions, the tool for timing is strongly needed. Why? It is like working day and night, during the day, when there is sun, and at night, on a fixed date, you can see the sky knowing the time, but on cloudy days, or on some moonless nights, professional personnel need to understand the time, and even if you understand it, it is not very accurate.
This problem should have been solved for Yang Heng long ago. It is the other time travel predecessors. After traveling for such a long time, they don’t know how much they can sell watches, clocks, and pocket watches, and they don’t know how much money they have earned. But Yang Heng gave up almost every time he was preparing for manufacturing. So, this is really not a thing that is the focus. Well, then this is solved. Since it is urgently needed, you will definitely sell this thing at a good price and will be sold in large quantities.
As the manufacturing of clocks, in the past life, Europe still needed to check the timing, or even draw a chart, and find the precise timing tools needed to find the waterway. Now, for work needs, there must be a timing tool that is not very accurate. However, for some stargazers, accurate timing tools are still needed.
"Yang Ming, Yang Qiang, you two are doing advertising designs and advertising in some places, saying that I want to seek extensive advice and what kind of timing tool to create." "Yes, Alang." The two went out together.
"Aming, do you think we are Jiang Lang's talent? How could he let us post advertisements for comments?" If Yang Heng heard Yang Qiang's question, he would be amused and crying. Jiang Lang's talent was gone. This is a simple thing. However, Yang Heng needs to let some people think carefully and cannot rely on themselves for everything. Moreover, the things in his mind may be almost exhausted. Next, maybe, there are some things that he doesn't know how to create, so it is a serious matter to let people think in advance, and it is not, and it starts with this small matter. In Yang Heng's eyes, this clock is naturally the simplest thing. But in people's eyes, it is a very complicated thing. Timekeeping is such a difficult thing.
"Aqiang, how could you have this idea? You didn't see it. After hearing this news, Alang did not take it seriously. That proves that he actually has a draft, but he just doesn't want to take it out directly. Look, how many things are there, Alang draws the drawings directly or says his ideas, and makes people make them, and some are even made by him. Can you have so many ideas? No, we can't even think of one of them. Okay, don't say more, Alang really doesn't know. That's not because he can't do it, but because we are incompetent. We can advertise quickly. Look, Alang also has a lot of bonuses. A truly practical idea of 100 taels of silver, an idea of related ideas, fifty taels of silver, a part idea, ten taels of silver, or even a prompt, there will be one tael of silver."
Yes, Yang Heng just wants to use high rewards to make people think.
"You said, what will that kid do this time? He actually offered a public reward for ideas." Naturally, the news soon came to Li Er's ears, because now, even in Chang'an City, people often go to Yang Heng's mansion to express their ideas and get bonuses, but not much, most of them are one or two silver taels.
"This, Your Majesty, I can't say it well, but according to my subordinates, his two clerks said this," so he told Yang Qiang and Yang Ming that when did Li Er's spy come to Yang Heng again? Fortunately, they can only hear these people talking, and they still can't get close to Yang Heng.
"Oh, when did you arrange the staff to that kid again?" "Hi, Your Majesty, this is not around him, but these two kids are avoiding what the prince consort said, a little far away from the prince consort. This is my greatest ability. Now the prince consort is very powerful, and it is difficult to get close to him."
"What, the reward of fifty miles has come out, what kind of idea is it?" Just as Li Er was talking, he really had a high bonus, what kind of idea is it.
This is an idea proposed by a train driver. "Boss, I think the disk of this timing tool is a disk like a pressure gauge, so that a pointer can rotate on such a disk. A large scale is an hour, a small scale can be a quarter of an hour, and even this timing tool can be processed with some copper gears."
This is an idea that comes out with emotion, which extends through the pressure gauge. Naturally, the first prize is impossible, so it is the second prize. Moreover, Yang Heng made a big announcement, and even the prizes issued by the public, five white ingots, were taken away by people, which really made many people jealous.
After this inspiration, someone quickly gave three pointers, this one was a bonus of ten taels, while the others were some irrelevant statements. However, Yang Heng would not let them come in vain, so he would naturally give them one tael of encouragement. Of course, not everyone has encouragement rewards. For some people who are purely here to cheat the bonus, they would directly bombard people, and some bulls who are not right, they really used their brains. Yang Heng was not stingy with the bonus of one tael.
Yang Heng's several bronze smiths and even gold and silver craftsmen did not come to receive the award, but made watches based on the things announced by Yang Heng. They wanted to give Yang Heng a surprise.
"What do you think about this power? The gears and these three pointers have been made, but there is no power to make them rotate. You can't use human power to push them all the time, right?"
"Hey, I have an idea. Look, if you want to lengthen this shaft and turn a lot of ropes on it, it is like the hoist made by Alang, and then put a heavy object on a section of the rope. In this way, when the heavy object descends, will it cause the gear to rotate?
Well, they have entered the regular thinking route, and even the working principle of the most primitive heavy objects falling and driving rotation has been designed.
They didn't want to get any bonus, but just to help Yang Heng, because Yang Heng has always given them a good salary. In addition to designing some jewelry appearances, they were just to process some things Yang Heng painted. They really felt ashamed. They couldn't help Yang Heng any of them, but they just played the role of a handicraft worker. This job can be said that as long as the apprentice who knows how to process gold and silver can do it.
Chapter completed!