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Chapter 486 Steam Revolution

Of course Natalie cannot lend it to others, just like the wife cannot lend it to others.

Now she is completing a great creation with Reggie, who is going to build the world's first train.

A chemical engineer is not a mechanic. Although he understands the basic structure of a steam train, it is difficult to design a toy train with just this knowledge.

This kind of thing should have been left to the three craftsmen, but those three guys were obsessed with another thing. They wanted to install the steam engine on the airship.

Swindell has long had the idea that with just a set of crank connecting rods and a few gear accelerators, the steam engine can drive the propeller to rotate rapidly. With such powerful power, the airship can no longer rely on Natalie's

It can fly in the sky with its own power, and there is no need for soldiers to pedal desperately on the bicycle.

This means that Reggie can have an air fleet. Think about it, if twenty airships appear in the sky at the same time, what kind of enemy cannot be conquered?

The idea is perfect, but it is very difficult to implement it. An ordinary steam engine, plus cooling equipment, weighs about five thousand pounds.

The airship's carrying capacity is around 10,000 pounds, and it can also accommodate a steam engine.

The attached mechanical equipment also weighs 2,000 pounds.

This can be accommodated, but steam engines require coal. According to their calculations, if the airship travels a hundred miles, it will require about a thousand pounds of coal.

Not only does it require coal, it also requires more than 800 pounds of water, and a water tank weighing more than 600 pounds...

The remaining load capacity is just enough to carry a driver, a co-driver, and two stokers (who shovel coal and make fires). These four brothers drive the steam airship and hover over the enemy. They can intimidate the enemy and also attack the enemy.

There was nothing they could do other than throw soot because the airship couldn't even hold a bomb.

If you want to install a steam engine on an airship, you must first reduce the weight of the steam engine, and also reduce its volume. This not only exceeds the current technical limits, but even exceeds Reggie's design concept. Don't expect an engineer who studied chemistry to design it.

What a compact steam engine.

But the three men did not give up. Swindell continued to improve the structure, Hurley and Khalaf continued to improve the process, and tried their best to reduce the weight of the steam engine.

They also found a kind of weed called Esme, squeezed it into grass juice, and it became a very good cooling liquid. They could quickly complete heat exchange in the air, and after dissipating the heat, they repeatedly cooled the machine to complete the work.

steam.

Don't underestimate this process. If the cooling link is properly handled, the vacuum degree of the cooler can be increased, which is equivalent to reducing the exhaust pressure and improving the overall efficiency of the steam engine.

With the joint efforts of the three of them, the weight of the steam engine was reduced to 3,000 pounds, the coal consumption was reduced to 700 pounds, the weight of the machinery was reduced by one-third, and the airship could carry ten soldiers and twenty bombs.

But all these were just theories and models. When they wanted to build an improved steam engine, they were told that they had run out of iron.

The city has run out of iron? What a ridiculous thing! There are four smelting plants in the city and more than a dozen kilns that never stop working.

They found Nolos and had a fierce quarrel with him. Reggie had stipulated that at any time, even in times of war, the supply of materials for the "threesome" must be guaranteed.

But this time, Nolos was very disrespectful. He crossed his legs, pointed at a thick and long "iron rod" he had just forged, and said: "This is the order of the lord. One hundred rods must be made every day. All of them must be made."

All the iron materials were used in this thing."

Kalaf looked at this heavy iron rod and asked in surprise: "What is this and what is its use?"

"This thing is called a railroad track. I don't know what it is used for. All our iron materials are used to make this thing."

Karaf squatted down and looked carefully at this thing called a rail. Its cross-section is I-shaped, with the upper edge two and a half inches wide, the lower edge five and a half inches wide, and its height about six inches.

The rails are almost ten feet long.

This rail weighs nearly two hundred pounds. Two hundred pounds of good iron is used to make such a wretched thing, and a hundred more are made every day!

Even if he was a lord, he couldn't be so willful. The angry trio went to the lord's castle. Reggie was drawing designs with Natalie, which made Hurley, who was already furious, lose his mind instantly.

"Depraved man, shameless lord, look what you are doing!"

"What do you think I'm doing?" Reggie glared at Hurley, "This was originally your job, but now I'm doing it myself. Don't you feel ashamed?"

"Since it's our job, leave it to us now!" After saying that, Hurley pounced directly on Natalie. Natalie exclaimed and was about to dodge, but saw Reggie take out a spear and stab him directly.

In Hurley's face.

"That's not what I'm talking about," Reggie held Natalie in his arms, "I'm talking about the train, and I want you to help me build the train!"

"What... is a train?" The three people looked at each other in confusion. Reggie had already given them the drawings, but they used them to pad the table.

"Didn't you even take a look at the drawings I gave you about a steam engine running on railway tracks?" Reggie placed the drawings in front of the three people, with a strange light shining in his eyes.

"Remember the steam roller? We used the steam engine to drive the wheels and let the wheels carry the steam engines everywhere. What a great invention this is!"

Reggie was just about to applaud his achievements, but he saw Swindell with a look of disdain on his face: "Sir, please pay attention to your wording, that thing can't run, it walks slower than an old lady."

"It's because he walks too slowly that we need to make improvements and let him learn to run!"

Reggie was the first to take out the drawings of the locomotive and said to the three of them affectionately: "Can you see clearly?"

Swindell frowned and said: "What's not clear about this? It's just a few accelerators."

Kalaf shook his head and said: "Sir, this won't work. We tried increasing the speed of the roller, but if we do that, our connecting rod will break."

"What I don't want is a road roller. I don't need such heavy wheels," Reggie said with a smile. "I just need it to drive eight iron wheels. Only eight are enough. Then it can carry me with it."

In forty minutes of hourglass time, I ran from Broken Snow City to the pier."

Swindell finally understood Reggie's intention: "Sir, you want to use a steam engine to replace the carriage."


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