When Songjiang Heavy Machinery Company was busy working on a lot of designs, due to its own lack of technical strength, Zhaoqing Machinery Company also felt that gasoline engine technology was extremely difficult, and it was also looking for customers for gasoline engines.
Therefore, the two companies reached a strategic cooperation, and the gasoline engine departments of both parties were directly merged to jointly develop gasoline engines.
Zhaoqing Machinery Company is actually very unwilling to do this.
However, in the past few months, although they have obtained patent authorization and rich technical talents, it is a pity that there are only a few internal combustion engine experts in the empire. Most of them are concentrated in the Royal Institute of Technology, and the other half are concentrated in the Royal Institute of Technology.
Hangzhou Power Machinery Company, there is still a self-taught Li Yubo who also started his own Qixiang Automobile Company.
As for other companies, although they are not short of money, they have limited technical personnel on hand. After months of struggling, they have not been able to complete the design work of the gasoline engine, let alone production.
And the later the delay is, the greater the trouble you will face later!
This trouble refers to patents!
They already have the basic patent for gasoline engines, but the gasoline engines developed by Hangzhou Power Machinery Company and Qixiang Automobile Company also adopted many new designs and applied for patents for these new designs.
Li Yubo applied for dozens of patents for his small gasoline engine.
The later it is, the more patents others will successfully develop and apply for. This means that even if you develop it yourself in the future, you will not be able to use it if others have already developed it in advance because there is no patent.
In order to avoid having to bypass a lot of patents in the future, Zhaoqing Machinery Company and Songjiang Heavy Machinery Company hit it off and prepared to combine the strengths of both parties to conduct research together.
To put it bluntly, it’s a matter of grabbing time!
It's impossible not to grab them. If this continues, after a year and a half, it is estimated that other manufacturers will have hundreds or even thousands of patents registered. By then, it will be even more difficult for them to bypass these patents.
Although neither of these two companies has very good technical advantages in the field of gasoline engines, the combination of the two is extremely powerful.
Songjiang Heavy Machinery Company has recruited more than ten talents from the Royal Institute of Technology in advance. Although they are not at the professor level, there are not even lecturers from the Royal Institute of Technology. Well, these people can't even stay in school.
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But these more than ten talents are all graduates of the mechanical department who have participated in gasoline engine research and are engaged in internal combustion engine research.
Even though they were just starting out at the beginning, they had some exposure to the research and development of gasoline engines.
At the same time, there is no need to doubt the technical level of these people. Graduates of the Royal Institute of Technology are a well-known brand, and they can crush a large number of people with their IQ alone.
As for Zhaoqing Machinery Company, when they recruited talents, they started a little late and failed to recruit professional talents from the Royal Institute of Technology. However, their technical strength in the field of steam engines and other mechanical fields is very strong.
Many engineers have extremely strong technical capabilities.
The two combine with each other and can form effective complementarity.
After the merger of the gasoline engine research departments of both parties, a gasoline engine research and production enterprise controlled by both parties was established, and the first gasoline engine product was finally launched in more than a month.
Of course, we just stayed at the design stage and just built a prototype.
But this prototype still caused a sensation. This is not to say that they have completely bypassed the many patents of other car companies, nor that it uses more advanced technologies, but that this gasoline engine can be regarded as a masterpiece of the Tang Dynasty.
The first high-horsepower gasoline engine in the empire.
This two-cylinder four-stroke gasoline engine has a maximum power of thirty horsepower!
Although its size and weight are very large, to some extent, this thing is actually a simple enlarged version of several other small gasoline engines.
But even if you want to enlarge, it is not that easy.
Because this requires larger high-precision parts, and the manufacturing of large-scale high-precision parts has always been a difficulty in the industrial field.
However, the cooperation between Songjiang Heavy Machinery Company and Zhaoqing Machinery Company successfully overcame many difficulties and produced such a medium and large gasoline engine with a power of 30 horsepower.
The most critical point is that although this gasoline engine is called a large gasoline engine and is very large in size and weight, it is much smaller and lighter than a steam engine of the same power.
With this large 30-horsepower gasoline engine, it means that many heavy machinery and equipment have a source of power.
The successful development of this gasoline engine will have a far greater impact on the empire's industry and commerce than those small gasoline engines with only one or several horsepower.
After learning that the gasoline engine was successfully developed, even Li Xuan paid some attention to it and praised it when reviewing the report.
The successful research of this gasoline engine also means that many research projects of Songjiang Heavy Machinery Company have a power source, and many heavy engineering equipment such as gasoline excavators, gasoline bulldozers, and gasoline tractors can become reality from drawings.
For a time, many domestic companies went directly to Songjiang Heavy Machinery Company for consultation, and some even placed intention orders directly.
The thirty-ninth year of Xuanping was the first year of automobiles in the Tang Empire.
Starting from this year, automobiles appeared in the Tang Empire, and various types of mechanical equipment powered by gasoline engines began to develop and enter the field of industrial manufacturing and production.
The improvement in the manufacturing industry brought about by this is huge.
The further development of the Tang Empire's industry had a huge impact on all aspects.
Even the natives of various countries can feel that the Tang Dynasty is becoming more and more powerful from the guns and cannons of the Tang Dynasty army. They can still understand and even imitate the weapons used by the Tang Dynasty people in the past.
But now, they are basically in complete despair. Even the Golden Kingdom of Tatar, which has been following the steps of the Tang Dynasty and trying every means to follow suit, is also in complete despair.
In the era of flintlock muskets, they could still imitate them, but in the era of flash caps, they could no longer keep up because they didn't even understand what flash caps were, let alone imitate them.
When the front-loading rifled era came, they were desperate. They knew the benefits of rifling and even knew the detailed structure of the Mini rifle, but they couldn't make it alive!
The steel barrel and high-precision processing completely closed the door.
But by the time of the breech-loading rifle era in the past ten years, they were completely in despair.