Chapter six hundred and ninety-ninth, the design can't be made
However, even if it is copycat plagiarism, it is not that easy. Everyone knows the telegraph theory.
But even if you have other people's samples, it is not easy to imitate them, such as the current 300 mm and 30 caliber naval guns or the 350 mm and 30 caliber naval guns.
Everyone knows what these big guys look like, but there are not many countries on the contemporary Blue Star that can produce them.
After two years of hard work, the Royal Telegraph Company solved the production problem of telegraph equipment. However, there were still many problems and high costs. Therefore, the early telegraph laying was very limited, limited to short-distance telegraph lines, and No telegraph network was formed.
It took another two years of hard work, and it was not until January of the ninth year of Qian Sheng that the Royal Telegraph Company solved the problem of batch low-cost mass production of telegraph equipment and solved the last obstacle to the large-scale application of telegraphs!
In this way, the wired telegraph construction of the Daheng Empire is on the fast track.
If nothing else goes wrong, in July of the ninth year of Qian Sheng, the Daheng Empire's first long-distance commercial telegraph line, that is, the telegraph line from the capital to Luohai City, will be officially opened and put into operation.
At the same time, more telegraph lines were being set up rapidly.
After the limited telegraph, Lin Ziran asked the Royal Telegraph Company to continue working hard to launch wireless telegraphy as soon as possible!
The field of wireless telegraphy is still an emerging field on Blue Star, and even the theory is not yet complete. This gives the Daheng Empire an opportunity to overtake in a corner.
That's why Lin Ziran attaches so much importance to the Royal Telegraph Company!
However, judging from Lin Ziran's experience, even if he pays attention to it, invests money, and even explains the basic theory, it is not that easy to come up with it.
The field of electrification is an emerging field for countries around the world, and it is not that easy to engage in.
But no matter how difficult it is, the Daheng Empire will not interfere with the backwardness.
In the first-stage industrial field represented by steam engines, countries such as the Kingdom of Krul have already taken the absolute lead and advantages. No matter how hard the empire works, it can only catch up and narrow the gap, but if it wants to catch up, It's very difficult.
But it's different in the field of electrification. Everyone is not doing well now. Empire has every chance to surpass them and gain a lead.
Once it gains a leading edge in the field of electrification, the empire can use the results of electrification to promote the further development of science, technology and productivity, and eventually surpass established powers such as the Kingdom of Krul.
In order to gain a leading edge in the field of electrification, Daheng Empire has increased investment in many aspects in recent years. In the field of education, many universities such as Imperial College London have established electrification schools such as the School of Electromagnetics and established numerous electrification research.
Today, research in the field of electrification on Blue Star is still relatively shallow. Even the electrification research of the most powerful country, the Kingdom of Krul, is at a very superficial level. The scientists of the Daheng Empire are not lagging behind in the most cutting-edge theoretical research. How much? If there is any shortcoming, it is just some basic craftsmanship.
To this end, the Imperial Academy of Sciences has allocated a large amount of special research funds to support cutting-edge research by scientists in major institutions of higher learning.
In the field of electrification industry, the National Assets Management Commission and the Royal Assets Management Committee are the main investors, and they have successively invested in and established more than ten companies such as Jingzhou Electric Company, Deqing Cable Company, Royal Telegraph Company, and Shengli Electric Power Company, etc. Electrical research and production enterprises in order to transform scientists' research theories and laboratory products into industrial products.
In addition, the three major arms companies also have electrification branches that serve the military field. For example, the Luoan Communications Factory under the Nanzhou Arms Company cooperates with the Royal Telegraph Company to develop battlefield radio communication systems.
The military wireless telegraph system of Nanzhou Weapons Company has attracted great attention from the military. The Department of National Defense Technology under the Supreme Command has awarded two large-scale research and development contracts and purchased multiple sets of equipment for preliminary research. test.
Jingzhou Weapon Company also has a similar electric telephone communication project, but their research in the field of communication is more focused on the telephone field. They are trying to develop a telephone communication system to achieve real-time two-way communication on the battlefield. communication.
Regarding the telephone, in the second year of Qian Sheng, scientists from the Valia Empire proposed relevant theories and created a prototype, but so far, it has not been put into practical use.
The telephones developed by scientists now still have many problems such as short communication range and low efficiency.
Scientists from many countries are also working on this telephone, and the Daheng Empire is certainly no exception.
In addition to the communication field, the Daheng Empire is actually more important in the electric field. Many companies invest heavily in research and development in many core fields such as generators, motors, transformers, and cables.
This is to allow electric motors to replace steam engines and become the main driving force for production!
At the same time, power applications are also very important in many fields.
In this regard, the Daheng Empire is ahead of many countries. In other countries, there is currently no concept of a complete electrification revolution. They may be doing some scattered telegraph, telephone, and electric lighting projects. , electric and other related research, but unlike the Daheng Empire, it has not concentrated national resources and strength to conduct concentrated research, and regards research in the electrical field as a national key research.
In addition to investment in electrification, Lin Ziran has also instructed the Royal Assets Management Committee to increase research in the field of internal combustion engines in the past two years.
The Royal Internal Combustion Engine Company has successfully copied the gas-powered reciprocating piston four-stroke internal combustion engine that the Valia Empire exhibited at an international exhibition a few years ago, which can be regarded as keeping up with the international pace in the field of internal combustion engines.
Although this gas four-stroke engine has many shortcomings such as unplanned, difficult to carry and store gas, unsafe, etc., it has many advantages such as high thermal efficiency and smaller internal combustion engine size, and it still has certain application value in the industrial field.
At present, Royal Internal Combustion Engine Company is continuing to tackle key problems, trying to increase the power and increase the thermal efficiency so that it can be put into industrial applications.
In addition, according to Lin Ziran's instructions, the company began to develop internal combustion engines powered by gasoline. Compared with gas and kerosene, gasoline is easier to store and carry, and has wider application prospects.
It's just that it's unlikely to be a practical gasoline engine in a short time.
It’s not that it can’t be designed, it’s that it can’t be built…
The design is actually very simple. Nowadays, the design of the four-stroke internal combustion engine of the gas engine is relatively mature. After slight improvements, it can also be used as a gasoline engine. The problem is that if it is to be practical, it must be the same as the gas engine. Continue to increase power, increase speed, and increase thermal efficiency. If you want to do this, you must have more advanced basic materials and processing technology.
In this regard, the foundation of the Daheng Empire is still relatively weak. Even in recent years, the Daheng Empire has invested heavily in its own research and development, and also spent huge sums of money to continuously introduce various technologies. However, if it wants to keep up with several
There are still certain difficulties in becoming a powerful nation.
Insufficiencies in the basic field not only restricted the development of internal combustion engines, but also restricted the development of steam engines, restricted the development of mechanical equipment, and even affected the industrial development of the empire in all aspects.
In order to solve this huge trouble, the empire's investment in basic fields is increasing year by year, not only through corporate investment, but directly through the Royal Academy of Sciences, allocating scientific research funds for research and development.
At Imperial College, the ones that gain the most experience every year are not the seemingly high-end projects, but the seemingly ordinary Department of Materials.
Apart from using time and money to tackle key problems, there are almost no other tricks for researching materials and improving processes.
For example, Imperial College London and Jingzhou Iron and Steel Company jointly developed a new generation of nickel-chromium alloy hardened armor!
There is almost no other way to do this except to pile up money!
The principle is already known and the process has been designed. The only problem is that it cannot be mass-produced. It is too expensive to produce this thing with current technical means...
From the beginning, Luohai Steel Company and Jingzhou Steel Company have been working hand in hand and competing with each other in the research and development of hardened armor in the Daheng Empire.
However, it was not these two steel companies that solved the problem of mass production of hardened armor, but Professor Li Xuntong from Imperial College London!
In the 7th year of Qian Sheng's reign, Professor Li Xuntong took the lead in developing the high-pressure water spray cooling and hardening process, which historically allowed him to cool and harden large-area steel plates and obtain practical, uniformly hardened hardened armor.
This ushered in the era of hardened armor!
Just a few months later, Luohai Steel Company upgraded the process based on this process, using oil instead of water, and using high-pressure oil injection to cool and harden the high-temperature steel.
This process of high-pressure water spraying and oil spraying for rapid cooling and more uniform hardening of the armor is also called the Lee process.
Li's craft sounds very simple, but it is extremely important. It is the most important technology in creating hardened armor.
Therefore, it has been classified as a special secret process by the Ministry of National Defense Industry of the Supreme Command and is strictly prohibited from being leaked.
With the successful development of this Li cooling and hardening process, the hardened armor of the Daheng Empire has real mass production possibilities.
As a result, hardened armor began mass production and was used in various new warships in the third phase of the naval development plan.
The main products are those of Luohai Steel Company, which are ordinary steel hardened armor and nickel steel hardened armor, with different specifications to meet the needs of different warships.
Later, during their research and development of hardened armor, they discovered that nickel-chromium alloy is more suitable for hardening treatment, but unfortunately, it is very difficult to manufacture the current nickel-chromium alloy.