The beautiful melody sounded in the room, as if there was a symphony orchestra playing here.
Where did this music come from?
What about the orchestra?
Where is the orchestra?
For just a moment, Lincoln and the others looked left and right, trying to find the band hidden somewhere.
But they heard clearly - the music was coming from the record player. There was no way there was a symphony orchestra hidden in this room.
Since it's impossible to hide a symphony orchestra, who is playing the music?
What they can be sure of is that it is definitely not the sound coming from a music box or something like that, because this is simply a band playing the most beautiful melody there.
How is music produced?
"Mr. Lin, what is this?"
After being surprised for a while, Lincoln asked curiously and surprised.
"The record player is a machine recently invented by the Ming Dynasty. It can retain the sound. What you hear is the performance of the Imperial Symphony Orchestra."
Lin Weinan didn't think there was anything strange about their stunned looks. After all, when he first heard the music from the record, his look was not much better than theirs.
But now looking at the dumbfounded looks of these people, he was filled with a certain kind of pride deep in his heart. This pride was born from the Ming Dynasty's advanced science and technology, because they always gave people too many surprises.
Even when he exited the room, Lin Weinan still had a faint smile on his face. This smile was both proud and proud.
Of course, it was also like showing off, he was just showing off, just like these foreigners showing off how advanced Ming Dynasty's technology was.
Of course, it is human nature to show off like this. After all, in the past few years, the most fundamental reason why European and American countries are so proud of themselves is because of science.
Once upon a time, they used science to define civilization and claimed to be a civilized country!
But what about now?
Now the science of Ming Dynasty is far more developed than theirs. This kind of leadership is not just a certain industry or a certain aspect, but an all-round leadership.
Even now, Ming Dynasty has become the founder and leader of the second industrial revolution, but what about them? They have only just knocked on the door of the second industrial revolution.
With such advanced technology, if we don’t show it off now, when will we show it off? After all, in this land, new inventions are born every day.
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This...whose invention is this?
Edison, who was in the cinema, stared at the moving photos. Although it had no sound, the funny actions on the screen made people in the cinema laugh out loud from time to time. It was like a joy here.
It was like an ocean, and everyone was laughing there because of the funny actions of the male protagonist.
Although every expression and movement of the actor can make people laugh uncontrollably, Edison's eyes were not on the film at all. He just looked straight at the movie machine behind and the picture projected on the screen.
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"This, this is really a great invention!"
When Edison sighed like this, he did not know that in another world, the movie machine was invented by him. To be precise, it should be improved by his laboratory and eventually promoted to the whole world.
Even in another world, the rise of Hollywood was precisely because Los Angeles was far enough away from New York that people who wanted to escape Edison's patents would choose to shoot movies in Los Angeles.
That’s right!
Hollywood, which keeps talking about protecting intellectual property rights, was actually born to avoid paying for intellectual property rights.
Of course, now, the Menlo Park laboratory can no longer appear in this world. Because Edison brought his family to Ming Dynasty, in December last year, the research work of Edison's synchronous transmitter was nearing completion, and Western Union
It promised to pay Edison $5,000, offered $25,000 to purchase its patent, and paid him $233 per day as a fee for each line using this equipment, but Western Union failed to fulfill its promise.
Just when Edison was on the verge of bankruptcy because of this invention, the Ming Telegraph and Telephone Company finally purchased the patent for the synchronous transmitter for US$30,000, allowing him to tide over the difficulties. At the same time, the Ming Telegraph and Telephone Company also sent him a job
Invite, invite him to come to Daming.
Of course, for Edison, he was not willing to succumb to others, but he did not refuse the invitation because this was his only chance to enter the Ming Dynasty.
"This is a palace of invention! The world's most outstanding scientists and inventors gather here."
In the past few years, in the face of countless new inventions of the Ming Dynasty, newspapers and scientific circles in Europe and the United States have used similar tones full of jealousy and envy to describe the Ming Dynasty.
In the eyes of many European and American politicians and observers, in the past few years, Ming Dynasty has been using very generous treatment and conditions to attract scholars and inventors from all over the world, thereby using their intelligence to serve their industry and commerce
.
But some experts and scholars said it in a heartbreaking tone.
"The rise of the Ming people in this land was not because they were smart themselves. It was because they made full use of the smartest people in Europe. They were like harvesters, waving the banknotes in their hands.
European countries harvest the intelligence of the entire Europe to serve them. In front of almost every outstanding scholar, there will be a Ming man there who will say to him, come on, come to us, we can give you treatment you can't imagine.
Just like the Turks in the past, they used silver to seduce the weak-willed scholars and technicians. In the end, it was those Europeans who achieved everything they had. Their inventions and innovations were entirely based on the knowledge of European scholars.
On the harvest.”
Of course, these are the few people talking nonsense there, and they have not paid attention to the fact at all. Those scholars and experts who were introduced to the Ming Dynasty were not taken seriously in European countries, and even
Because they were also ostracized by mainstream academia, they were forced to leave their country.
[To be honest, I have been using Yeguo to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. www. Android and Apple are available.]
Only the Ming Dynasty in the world can provide them with the most generous treatment and research conditions. For those experts and scholars, they prefer the latter. After all, not only will it provide them with a better research environment, but also the academic environment here will be better.
The atmosphere is more intense.
This is of course also the reason why those scholars and experts are sad, because they watched helplessly how Ming Dynasty used talents from all over the world to serve them. Even in their view, it was precisely because Ming Dynasty bought those experts and scholars with silver that it allowed Ming Dynasty to use its talents to serve them.
They became the leaders and founders of this industrial revolution.
But for those experts and scholars who came to Daming, the reason why they were happy to come here was because it had a better scientific research environment.
This is of course also the reason why Edison came here, because there are far more excellent technical personnel here than he imagined, and they are even better.
So for this reason, he came to Daming. Of course, as a foreigner, it was not easy to enter Daming. The Daming Telegraph and Telephone Company gave him a job invitation and allowed him to obtain a work visa to enter Daming.
"This is truly a magical place."
It has to be said that the spread of technology in this world is limited and of course slow, although as early as a few years ago during the "Los Angeles Incident", a famous figure threatened the President of the United States with a movie.
but?
It was not until now that Edison saw a movie for the first time. This was not because of the problem of technological dissemination. The most fundamental reason was that... Ming Dynasty’s industrial production must first meet its own needs. As early as December 1872, Ming Dynasty’s
When the movie was released for the first time, even though the movie theater could accommodate hundreds of people, there was still a sea of people in front of the movie theater. People were all proud to see the "movie".
Because of this, investing in movie theaters has become a popular industry in the past year - because it was not until last year that Ming Dynasty solved the film production problem and was able to provide cheap enough film. So far, Ming Dynasty has only provided films to certain countries.
They just gave away some movie machines.
Even some European countries have successfully copied movie projectors based on the "gifts" given by Ming Dynasty, but they do not have cameras or film, such as the United States, or even countries like France, because Ming Dynasty gave cameras to the royal family.
, some "smart" French people successfully imitated cameras, but they were unable to produce film, at least they could not produce film that was cheap enough to be produced on a large scale. Because of this, films are still only available to a few people in European countries.
Entertainment. It is also because of this that watching movies has become an entertainment activity exclusive to the people of the Ming Dynasty.
This is why in the past few days, Edison has always been in the cinema, not only because those funny movies make people laugh. The most important reason is that this invention is so surprising.
Already.
At least, before coming to Ming Dynasty, he had never seen such a fascinating invention. In the past period of time, he had seen too many new inventions, from movie players to record players. These were unheard of and unseen.
The new invention completely subverted his understanding of the world.
So much so that Edison even felt a sense of frustration, because as an inventor, he discovered for the first time how insignificant he was in front of these new inventions. It could even be said that he was not worth mentioning.
Sometimes he really wanted to ask out loud what kind of person invented these new inventions?