If the technical backbones of the industrial group headed by Zhang Feifei had machine tools, it would be possible for them to make a steam engine.
But without machine tools, they are like beggars with a broken hand, unable to even reach out and ask for money.
Zhang Feifei and others even speculated that Mr. Ma had the ability to manually build machine tools!
To be honest, before time travel, such an ability would have been at the level of a craftsman from a great country.
After all, the industrial mother machines with the highest precision are actually built by hand, because other types of machine tools require industrial mother machines, and industrial mother machines cannot be built by other machine tools.
"Yes, the tentative name is Pier Type 1."
Fang Xiaoyue swallowed the bun, took a sip of the porridge, and answered with a smile.
Taking the lead in building a steam engine was one of his carefully considered plans.
First build a steam engine to provide a power source, and then those coal mines and iron mines can use the steam engine to save manpower and improve efficiency.
After all, given the current situation in the dock area, human resources are extremely scarce.
When the coal mines and iron mines are developed and a large amount of high-quality coal and iron ore are transported back to the dock area, with energy and steel, then the industry in the dock area will be able to take off in a real sense, instead of the use of buckles and soso as before.
With the materials brought by time travel, even a rifle production line dare not let go of its operation.
Generally speaking, after time travel, various problems will occur in the prototype steam engines produced due to technical problems.
But what surprised Zhang Feifei and others was that the steam engine hand-made by Fang Xiaoyue actually ran continuously for seventy-two hours before it was shut down because it needed to be stopped for inspection, not because there was a problem.
Fang Xiaoyue didn't feel there was any problem with this.
With the powerful bonus effect brought by his current proficiency in item manufacturing, it would be ridiculous to make even the simplest steam engine and have many problems.
What's more, he has level 10 mechanical design and manufacturing skills, so as far as design is concerned, there will be no problems.
Pier 1, as the initial test machine, Fang Xiaoyue does not intend to expand its production.
The reason is simple. For technicians from the industrial group like Zhang Feifei, Pier 1 is an experimental model of steam engine. For Fang Xiaoyue, this is just to satisfy the cautious mentality of Zhang Feifei and others.
After all, in the previous advent of the plane, Fang Xiaoyue had made a steam engine, the kind of pot machine that could burn wood and rice straw.
Since it was only an experimental version, in order to save time and raw materials, Fang Xiaoyue made a miniature version.
Its overall length, width and height do not exceed thirty centimeters.
Well, in the eyes of Zhang Feifei and others, it is amazing to be able to make a steam engine such a small size.
In addition, because the steam engine was too small and exquisite, it had no practical use. In the end, it could only be placed as a decoration in the product showroom of the industrial group, which showed the strength of the industrial group.
After breakfast, Fang Xiaoyue hurried into the industrial group warehouse.
No way, he is very busy now, extremely busy!
After hearing the news about the development of the steam engine, Zheng Xiangdong, chairman of the management committee, after confirming the matter, asked the industrial group to develop a practical steam engine as much as possible before the coal mining team set off.
After all, it would be very convenient if the coal mine had a steam engine.
"Obviously, help me get some materials. I have already drawn the design and will start trial production today."
Fang Xiaoyue nodded towards Zhang Feifei, who had arrived early, and gave instructions to a young man.
Although Zhang Feifei is now the leader of the industrial group, he no longer focuses on technology, but more on the internal management and external coordination of the industrial group.
No way, Fang Xiaoyue is the boss of the current industrial group, and everything revolves around him.
That young man has the same surname as Fang Xiaoyue, his name is Fang Mingming. He is now one of Fang Xiaoyue's students and studies with Fang Xiaoyue along with several other students.
According to Zhang Feifei, if Fang Xiaoyue is not assigned a few students to learn technology at this time, how can the industrial group grow?
After retrieving the materials, Fang Xiaoyue took out the broken mechanical converter, converted it into a machine tool, and started the development of the steam engine.
No way, the various tools of the industrial group are really lacking now. Fang Xiaoyue saw that the confidentiality within the industrial group was pretty good, so he simply didn't cover it up much.
Of course, he did not directly convert any machining center. In that case, it would be a bit exaggerated and would not be conducive to the learning and progress of everyone in the industrial group.
This is also a helpless thing.
If Fang Xiaoyue really transforms the machining center, the technicians in the industrial group will probably become like salted fish, unwilling to make progress.
While Fang Xiaoyue was working overtime and busy developing the Pier 2 steam engine, other technical staff in the industrial group did not take a break either. They were busy manufacturing some machinery that matched the steam engine.
For example, small cranes used to hoist and move bulk coal, salt and other goods, boilers of pot machines, heads and carriages of steam vehicles, etc.
The technical content of these machines is relatively low, and it would be too time-consuming for Fang Xiaoyue to develop them, so Fang Xiaoyue drew the design sketches and handed them over to them, who divided them into several groups for manufacturing.
One is to save time, and the other is to exercise the hands-on ability of these technicians.
Especially the second point is very important.
You know, most of the dozens of people in the industrial group are students from engineering universities and vocational and technical colleges. Even graduates have not worked for a few years. In terms of hands-on ability, they are not as good as those with older technologies.
The personnel are very different.
At the same time, this will also allow the blacksmiths, carpenters and other native people who have been recruited to play some role, so that they will not just eat for free after being recruited, but instead make them fear that they will be kicked out one day.
For these honest and loyal craftsmen, they are not afraid of being tired, but they are afraid of having no work to do.
At this time, in the beach training ground, more than 500 recruits were standing in neat square formations on the compacted mud.
More than fifty military members stood in front of the phalanx with the same posture.
To be honest, this recruit training, in addition to training new recruits, is also a training for these time-travelers.
Although the time-travelers have more or less received some military training before time-traveling, and they join the military group just to realize their dreams.
But whether it is reality or a dream, it requires strength to support it.