The next day, Tang Ning estimated that Levin's anger was almost gone, and planned to persuade him not to argue with Hager. However, before leaving the house, she heard the housekeeper Robert say that Maxim was here.
So he came to the living room, hugged Maxim first, and then asked: "Why didn't you send me a telegram before you came, so that I could send someone to pick you up!"
Maxim scratched his head and replied awkwardly: "Because I decided to come to New Orleans only temporarily!"
"Oh, what have you been busy with recently?" Tangning asked again.
"I'm improving the stapler!" Maxim replied casually.
To be honest, if Maxim hadn't mentioned it, Tangning wouldn't have realized that she didn't even have a stapler.
In fact, to be precise, it is not the case now. There were even staplers as early as the time of French King Louis XV, but the staplers at that time were different from what we thought!
It wasn't until 1868 that the Englishman Charles Gould invented the wire stapler, which was to cut the wire into a certain length, use the sharp end of the wire to forcefully pass through the paper and then fold it off. This is also the prototype of the modern stapler.
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Then the next year, Thomas Briggs of Boston, Massachusetts, USA invented a machine that could do the job. He founded the Boston Wire Binding Machine Company, which manufactured and sold such machines. His machine would
The wire is broken and bent into a U shape, then used to staple through the pages of the book, and finally bent again to secure the book properly.
Because Briggs' stapler has many operating steps, it is quite complicated, so Maxim is currently trying to improve this stapler.
After listening to Maxim's description, Tangning suggested based on his own memory: "Actually, Stevens, you can change your mind. That is to first go through a process to break and bend the iron wire to make a series of "U" shapes.
Staples. Then these staples can be loaded into a much simpler machine that can embed these staples into the paper." As he spoke, Tangning also drew the staples and staplers on the paper.
(This work was completed by Briggs in 1894.)
Looking at Tang Ning's drawings, Maxim pondered for a long time, then nodded and praised: "Boss, you are so smart. The problem that has troubled me for so long, you actually solved it all at once! And this kind of binding you improved
There are many more useful opportunities than Briggs’!”
And Tangning complained in her heart, I'm not as smart as you, I just know more than you. If you also came here from 2022, I guess you can copy a lot of future gadgets, you don't have to be like me.
I can draw it, but I can’t make it!
So he waved his hands and said: "I am just providing an idea, you have to develop it specifically!"
Maxim nodded and agreed: "Well, I will make a sample according to your idea after I go back, boss!" Then he added: "If it is really feasible, the patent will belong to both of us!"
"No, no, no, I'm just drawing a picture, how can I steal your patent?" Tang Ning refused.
And Maxim insisted: "Boss, this is not as simple as drawing a picture. In fact, if it comes true, then your contribution, boss, will be greater than mine. I am the one who took advantage of you!"
Seeing Maxim's insistence, Tangning had no choice but to agree, then changed the subject and asked, "By the way Stevens, why are you the only one here this time? Where's Zena?"
"Cousin Zena? Boss, why are you asking me that?" Maxim asked in confusion.
"Isn't Zena following you?" Tangning asked in confusion.
"Since when did cousin Zena start working with me? Boss, who did you listen to?" Maxim asked, still blinded.
Tangning explained: "He told me himself. He told me when he came to see me more than a month ago, because he met me in Shanghai and heard me say that you were doing well in New York, and he was doing well in New York.
China is not doing well, so he wrote to you and planned to go to you. Why didn't he go to you? "
"Not only did he not come to see me, he didn't even write to me!" Maxim replied angrily.
Hearing what Maxim said, Tangning couldn't help but exclaimed, "What?! Zena hasn't written a letter to you? Then why did he lie to me?"
"Actually, I want to know too!" Maxim replied with a frown.
Then he asked: "By the way, boss, did cousin Zena talk to you about anything at that time?"
Tangning thought about it for a moment, and then replied, "Then we talked about a woman!"
"Oh? What woman?" Maxim asked.
Tangning hesitated for a moment, then replied, "This woman should have nothing to do with him!"
"How could it not matter? Boss, just tell me when this happened!" Maxim begged.
Tang Ning pondered for a while, and then replied: "Okay, then I will tell you, but you can't tell others, because it involves one of my privacy." Then, Tang Ning told Maxim the whole thing.
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After hearing this, Maxim frowned and analyzed: "Could it be that cousin Zena returned to the United States just for this woman named Bai Min? What do you think, boss?"
Tangning shook her head and said, "There are too few clues to analyze!"
Maxim thought for a while, and then gave up: "Well, boss, if you have any news about cousin Zena again, you must tell me as soon as possible. I will go back to New York to study your improved order after I finish my work here.
Book machine!" After saying that, he stood up and left.
After Maxim left, Tangning tidied up and went out in a carriage to the New Orleans Express. Seeing that Levine was in a very stable mood, she went up to say hello and started chatting.
After chatting with him for a few words, Levin said with a smile: "Tony, you came to see if I have calmed down today, right?"
Tangning nodded without hesitation and replied, "Yes, that was indeed what I had in mind before I came here, but now it seems there is no need to ask."
Levin said with emotion: "Actually, I didn't want to get so angry at the time, but what Hager said was really irritating, so I had to teach him a lesson. But fortunately, Tony, you stopped me, otherwise if it was really
Beating him up would be a problem!"
"That's good if you think so!" Tangning said with a sigh of relief.
PS: When I was shopping in Longkong today, I saw someone complaining about Lao Zhuo's "Binjiang Police". Although this book is not to my taste, I really have to be considerate of him, because this book is all about movies and TV shows.
It’s an adaptation of a drama, so it has to be written in a more upright and upright way. There’s nothing we can do about it!