Steam hammer?

What is a steam hammer?

"A steam hammer is a machine hammer driven by water vapor. The hammer head and the cylinder's piston rod device can move up and down... who are you?"

It was all because of his quick talk that he caused trouble. For more than an hour, Zhu Guoqiang was like a teacher, constantly explaining the steam hammer to Chen Zhihuan, a scholar who appeared from nowhere. But Zhu Guoqiang was surprised.

It's not because they came out of there, but because they were curious about steam hammers and machines.

This kind of curiosity is completely different from those conservative scholars in the late Qing Dynasty. Far from resisting these new things, they were fascinated by the "machines where big iron blocks were forged like dough under the forging of steam hammers."

"Steam, can steam really move a hammer?"

Not to mention Chen Zhihuan, even Ge Shizhen was full of curiosity about this. Looking at the curious expressions of the two of them, Zhu Guoqiang thought for a while and then said to them.

"How about we do an experiment?"

"test?"

"Yes, it's just a test. If you don't conduct a test, isn't it just empty talk?"

While joking, Zhu Guoqiang led them into the laboratory. Looking at the exquisite glass testing equipment in the laboratory, the two of them were dumbfounded.

"My lord, what are these for?"

Looking at the exquisite glassware, even Chen Zhihuan, who has a rich family, did not dare to act rashly, for fear that if one piece was broken, he would not be able to pay for it. It was not that he could not pay for it, but he was worried that he would not be able to buy it even if he had money.

I have a few Western glassware at home, which are rare items worth hundreds of gold, but they can't compare to the transparency of these glasses.

Even when Chen Zhihuan saw the prince take out a glass tube as clear as crystal, pour water in it, plug the mouth of the bottle with a cork, and then burn the bottom of the tube with fire, he became even more nervous.

"Your Majesty, please be careful, in case you get burned..."

Instantly, a feeling of wastefulness arose in his heart. The prince actually dared to burn such a crystal tube!

As for Ge Shizhen, who comes from an average family background, even though he doesn't know how valuable these crystal-like glassware are, he can guess that these things must be very expensive and definitely not something ordinary people can own. But if you put them here with the prince,

It was actually just "burning and playing" with fire.

"If it's burned out, just replace it with another one..."

The prince's answer made the two of them speak at a loss, so that's okay... This, this clan is really rich and incomparable to the country!

Of course, Zhu Guoqiang didn't know what they were thinking. The equipment in this laboratory was originally used by him to try to make mercury fulminate. After all, artillery paper was not easy to buy. The reason why he brought them here now was entirely because of the two of them.

Due to the curiosity shown by people, he took advantage of changing clothes and went back to another world to check on these two people. Although he did not find any information about Chen Zhihuan, he found Ge Shizhen. If nothing else happened,

He will be the second-ranked candidate in next year's examination. A person who won the second-ranked examination by relying on eight-legged essays is actually full of curiosity about steam hammers and science. This is completely beyond his imagination.

In fact, Zhu Guoqiang had no idea that the scholars of the Ming Dynasty were completely different from the scholars of the late Qing Dynasty. In Matteo Ricci's books, he has recorded more than once that the scholars of the Ming Dynasty had a strong "curiosity" about science and Western knowledge.

He even reached the point of "going crazy". When he arrived in China, there was an endless stream of visitors from all over the country. Even Juzi from Shaanxi came to visit this Western scholar. They came to visit him.

I want to know about Western things.

Even in Juzi, Yunnan, on the southwest border, there are people who have heard of his name. Because they are too far away to meet him, they communicate with him through letters. He receives many letters, and some people do not know him at all.

In the letter, he discussed various topics such as Catholicism and science and technology with him, especially knowledge in science and technology and mathematics, which was the center of their discussion.

It is the most valuable thing for a nation to have such a strong curiosity. Even if it were not for Matteo Ricci's records, how could future generations know that the scholars of the Ming Dynasty in this era would be so curious about science. After all, all this has been lost in history.

, Not only that, many people even directly use the late Qing Dynasty to view the Ming Dynasty. When the scholars of the late Qing Dynasty faced foreigners, trains, telegraphs and other new things, they harbored panic, hostility, and ignorant rejection. They took it for granted that the Ming Dynasty

The same is true for scholars.

But what they couldn't imagine was that both Matteo Ricci and any missionary who came to China in the Ming Dynasty used a lot of words to record the curious and studious Ming Dynasty. They recorded how those smart Ming scholars enthusiastically

Foreign languages ​​and characters were learned so that they could learn Western science, even music and fine arts. But all of them were lost in history.

When the scholars of the late Qing Dynasty used a conservative and resistant mentality to fight against science and technology and progress, Zhijiao people wondered why they were like this? This detail can tell people that under the rule of the Qing Dynasty for hundreds of years, the Chinese people

How much has the quality declined?

Of course, Zhu Guoqiang didn't know either, otherwise he wouldn't have been surprised by the two scholars' eagerness to learn and curiosity about science, and then personally conducted steam experiments on them.

As the alcohol lamp heated up, there was a sudden "bang" sound, and the cork flew away. At the moment when the cork flew away, Ge Shizhen and Chen Zhihuan stared at the glass tubes, without speaking for a long time, and

Chen Zhihuan even murmured to himself.

"Steam...a machine hammer driven by water vapor...the hammer head, cylinder,...piston rod...can move up and down..."

While chanting these words, he was completely immersed in some kind of imagination. Although Zhu Guoqiang did not explain anything to him, in his mind, a simple idea had even been formed, and he even went as far as

In front of the alcohol lamp, he touched the glass test tube with his fingers and said to himself.

"This is the cylinder, and then it needs a piston. The cork just now is the piston, but it bounced off. How can I prevent it from popping off..."

"So vent it!"

Ge Shizhen reminded from the side.

"Yes, to exhaust, just let the air out, cork, no, the piston will not bounce off, and then..."

"But now that the breath has been released, how do you move?"

Listening to the two of them talking to themselves, Zhu Guoqiang was almost dumbfounded. The previous experiment made these two dumbfounded, but now, their reactions made him dumbfounded. They could actually do this... shouldn't you?

Are you a scholar who always talks about "Zhi Hu Ze Ye"?
Chapter completed!