My Daming New Empire

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What convinced them the most was that in less than half a month, Lan Yan used the existing materials to produce soda ash and pure acid. perspective on chemistry.

Because blue smoke gives a variety of uses for these raw materials, and these uses cover almost every aspect of life.

When Lan Yan used the hundreds of catties of soda ash produced to bring it to Ma's glass-making workshop, and then used the soda ash to make colorless glass, Ma Zhide, an expert who had been obsessed with the glass industry all his life, immediately regarded Lan Yan as a god man.

The colorless colored glaze produced by this kind of soda ash is almost purer than the highest-grade colored glaze produced by the Ma family, and there is no trace of impurities.

This can greatly improve the functions of telescopes and microscopes, making Ma's products uncompetitive at all.

These new technologies have all been patented by Lanyan under the name of Maqiao Research Institute, and the patent term is 20 years.

In the past 20 years, the beneficiary of the patent is the royal family of Ming Dynasty, but Lanyan, as the inventor of the patent, enjoys a 5.00% dividend.

Not counting these things, just the fabric and silk dyes can make Lan Yan the wealthiest woman in Ming Dynasty.

Because now it is not he who works so hard to promote it, but tens of thousands of eunuchs all over the world are helping her promote it.The invention of new technology will not gradually expand its influence, but directly radiate the whole country.

If Zhang and Sun Xian had some doubts about Lan Yan at first, but now, they really regard Lan Yan as the reincarnation of Doumu Niangniang, otherwise, how could she understand these strange things.

If the impact of these inventions is not surprising, then when she invented the battery that can store lightning, at least the people in the Institute of Chemistry regarded her as a god.

Zhu Zhanji doesn't know much about the production of batteries, but the application of batteries is too wide.Among other things, if the army is dispatched at night in the future, each team will have a flashlight with a storage battery, so they won't be afraid of being invisible at night.

Of course, only the battery is not enough. The manufacture of electric lights can be said to be the most active of Lanyan, but the progress is the slowest.

This is mainly because Lan Yan only has theoretical knowledge, and other aspects can be produced only by following the molecular ratio, but the carbonization of bamboo silk requires her to constantly experiment.

Carbonizing insulating bamboo filaments into heat-resistant and conductive filaments is by no means a simple process.

Just like she knows very well that using rotten melons to grow mold can provide a large amount of penicillin bacteria, and using corn solution can prepare a culture solution.

But if you want to extract penicillin, even if the fleet to Dongzhou has brought back corn, it will not be possible to extract penicillin within a year or two.

Not to mention penicillin, even the purification of sulfonamide, Blue Smoke can't do anything.

Sulfonamide was first discovered as a dye Prontosil. In fact, this kind of dye is not uncommon, including her.

But Prontosil is a dye, and sulfonamide is just one of its ingredients.It is not so simple to purify sulfonamide from this dye, even more difficult than directly extracting penicillin.

So Blue Smoke simply gave up the research on sulfonamide, and put the main goal on the research and development of penicillin.

But these works can only be promoted temporarily. The people in the Institute of Chemistry now regard Lan Yan as a god. Although they don’t understand why Lan Yan put so many melons into the pond and let them rot, they are still firm. Moved to start.

Now it is not so easy to build a sterile laboratory. It can only be relatively clean, because other aspects are easy to handle, but air purification is not something that can be achieved by current technical means.

For example, the penicillin extraction pool is a pool built with cement, and then a large tile is pasted on the cement surface. Although it cannot be said to be completely qualified, it can basically achieve the experimental effect.

What Zhu Zhanji wanted most was the telegraph, but he and Lan Yan were both laymen when it came to radio.

He only knew the history of radio development, the Morse code, and the principle of the telegraph, but he didn't understand how the telegraph used static electricity to transmit signals.

Now that the battery was invented, he handed over this task to Keats, a Taoist priest in Maoshan, and asked Keats to learn the pinyin first.

Keats was also a strange person in this era. When he was a child, he became a Taoist priest because of his poor family.But he is not the kind of Taoist priest with regular cards, but a wild Taoist priest.

On the rivers and lakes, he learned how to pretend to be a ghost by studying magnets, and because of this, he sneaked into Maoshan.

In Maoshan, after being able to read many Taoist scriptures, he learned to use magnetism to generate electricity by friction from books such as Huainanzi and Chunqiuwei.

This set of tricks in this era, not to mention ordinary people, even most of the rich and powerful have been fooled.

When Zhu Zhanji recruited heroes from all over the world, Keats volunteered to come to him.

Although Zhu Zhanji saw through his trick, he didn't expose it. Instead, he was supported because of his research on electricity.

When the generator was researched, Keats knew that his set of tricks had not fooled Zhu Zhanji.He is very fascinated by the research of the Electric Power Research Institute, and now he is an electric power expert in Daming.

In terms of electric power application, he is definitely not as good as Madi, because Madi's whimsical ideas, including hands-on ability, are not comparable to him.

But in the study of the principles of electricity, he can definitely be called an expert now.

The transmission of the telegram is to replace the 26 letters with dots and horizontal bars. Press the button for a long time to make a horizontal bar, and press it for a short time to make a dot.

Each letter is annotated with four symbols, and by receiving dots and bars, the letter can be identified.

Then determine each one according to the symbols, and connect them to form a pinyin, so that a message can be formed.

At this time, he was glad that he had made the pinyin alphabet. Otherwise, it would be a very difficult task to get a set of radicals just by decomposing Chinese characters, and the error rate would be higher.

Keats's task was how to use the transmission of electricity and interruption to transmit signals.

And Zhu Zhanji only remembers that the telegraph at the beginning was transmitted through signals, and punched holes in the paper to distinguish letters.

But technically, he can't help at all.

After telling Keats the principle, Zhu Zhanji can only wait for him to conduct a telegraph test with the circuit after he has studied it thoroughly.

As for radio transmission, that is simply unthinkable.

And most of Zhu Zhanji's energy is devoted to men's favorite toy, real gun manufacturing.

Whether it's a pistol or a long gun, it's actually not that complicated to manufacture.

In later generations, many technologists can use a lathe to imitate June [-]th, and it is not much different from the real gun.

The quality of guns mainly depends on the craftsmanship and materials, the worst is that the quality is poor.

In contrast, bullets are truly difficult to manufacture, because of the processing technology and chemical raw materials, even if they are placed in front of you, you cannot imitate them.

It's like the mercury fulminate used in the primer, you don't know chemistry, you don't know what it is.There is also the propellant in the bullet, which cannot be made by people who do not know chemistry.

However, now that she has Blue Smoke, she can solve these problems, and Zhu Zhanji has to solve the processing technology.

No matter what kind of gun, it is mainly composed of three parts: the barrel, the firing linkage structure, and the grip.

In terms of processing technology, the design of the firing linkage structure and the precision of the frame are very important.

But in terms of material, the wear resistance of the barrel is the most important.

In contrast, the processing of the grip is much simpler.

The invention of the steam engine has actually solved the difficulty of processing the barrel.

It turns out that the water wheel drives the lathe, and there are often problems such as insufficient power.But the kinetic energy conversion efficiency of the steam engine is much higher, which makes it possible to process some barrels originally made of pure steel at one time.

Moreover, nowadays, due to the research and development of lathe cutters, the invented manganese steel has made new breakthroughs in the production of drill bits and cutting tools.

In other words, even the threaded rifling inside the barrel is not a problem to process.