1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 138 Unruly Telegrapher

In the eyes of later historians, this battle between the Union Pacific Railway Company and the Sioux Grand Alliance is of great significance.

“In this battle, the Sioux League demonstrated extremely excellent tactical qualities, and their opponents, due to their arrogance, easily fell into their traps. The entire combat process can almost be said to be under the control of the Indians. However, even under these conditions, the Indians still failed to win. They gathered their superior power and launched rounds of attacks one after another, but they still couldn’t break through, which had been severely weakened. Opponent’s defense. If the Indians had one or two cannons, or had some grenades, the collapse of the whites was almost beyond doubt. In a sense, this war meant that the disparity of material power had begun to crush people. In “On War”, Clausewitz highly praised the role of Mental Energy. However, in war, the amount of Mental Energy is not omnipotent. If the material power is too great, only rely on Mental Energy. It is difficult to save the war. In this battle, the Indians have already maximized their Mental Energy, but they still failed to win. In the foreseeable future, the whites and the Indians However, the gap in the material power will continue to widen. This war means that on the North American continent, the age of the Indians has passed…”-“History of North American Indians” Cole Floys

Since the Indians were defeated, the construction of the railway has been on the right track again. Scrooge knew that there would not be any major troubles in the future, so he left Chicago and prepared to return to Cleveland to see how Croll and the others did. By the way, he also went to see the University of Cleveland. How is the research progress of wireless communication in the large laboratory of China?

Before leaving, Scrooge once again convened a meeting with the executives of the Blackwater Company. The personnel in charge of each department summarized the recent work of their department. Now, Burrent, who is in charge of the cable telegraph, is speaking:

“The unimpeded operation of the cable telegraph is very important, so every station must have someone on duty 24 hours a day. The staff on duty can easily fall asleep because of the fact that they have nothing to do most of the time. So we demanded that all telegraph operators , Every twenty minutes, a set signal must be sent out. In this way, by monitoring these signals, we can easily determine whether the operator on any site is asleep. This system effectively avoids The problem of employees sleeping during working hours is solved.

Of course, as Mr. MacDonald said. No system can be perfect, there will always be loopholes that can be exploited. Even our system of sending out a call sign every 20 minutes, some people will come to take advantage of the loopholes. Well, there is a very interesting story. A telegraph operator actually made a machine that sends out call signs at regular intervals. It will automatically send out a call sign every twenty minutes. So this guy turned out to be the one who never interrupted and performed the best, and he almost won the excellent work bonus. However, he still left a loophole, that is, the interval between his call signs was too neat, not a second A lot, one second is a lot, absolutely twenty minutes. How is this possible? So we sent people to investigate on the spot, and we found that the wise guy was asleep, and his call sign was still being sent out on time. He thought he could fool us, but he didn’t know…”

“Can I interrupt you?” Scrooge said.

“Ah, Mr. MacDonald, of course.” Burrent was taken aback.

“What’s the name of the telegrapher and where is it now?” Scrooge asked.”Ah, the telegrapher is called…” Burrent couldn’t remember for a while, and then his assistant whispered: “Thomas.”

“Yes, that guy, Thomas, Thomas Emerson or something. He has been fired because he violated the company’s discipline. Mr. MacDonald, is there a problem?”

“Oh, no problem. You handled it correctly. However, this Thomas is very talented. A person like this may not be able to do a job like a telegraph operator, but in other positions, he can give full play to his own talents. “Scottish said. Then he said to Bond from the Blackwater Ministry of Internal Affairs:

“Mr. Bond, this matter is entrusted to you, find this one as soon as possible, Thomas loves… what is your love?”

At this time, Brunt had determined the exact name of the person and immediately replied: “Thomas Alva Edison.”

“Yes, Mr. Bond, find this Thomas Alva Edison! Then take him directly to Cleveland to meet me. Oh, Mr. Brunt, send me the automatic call sign he invented. Hurry. One point. Because I’m going back to Cleveland tomorrow.” Scrooge said.

“Yes, Mr. MacDonald, we will find him as soon as possible.” Bond replied.

Sitting on the train bound for Cleveland, Scrooge played with the crude call sign machine. He can now be sure that this Thomas Alva Edison is the Edison who invented the electric light, the telephone, and the movie with more than 2,000 inventions and is known as the king of inventions.

“Well, Edison should be 15 or 16 years old now.” Scrooge remembered the various stories about Edison he had learned when he was a child in his previous life. He was ordered to ask random questions and excessively naughty after three months of school. Dropping out, um, the elementary school of this era is really powerful and domineering, um, the university seems not bad, it seems that there is a guy under his hand who was expelled from the University of Paris, and the mistake he made was that he failed to roll his name three times. If the school dared to do this in the 21st century, it would definitely be scolded to death.

Speaking of it, Edison and Scrooge were both from Ohio, but because his father failed to do business, he couldn’t stay in Ohio anymore, so he had to go elsewhere. Although Scrooge had read some biographies about Edison in his previous life, he used to read those things as a pastime. For him, these biographies are at best so that he will not take Edison when he is writing. Confused with Einstein and wrote about Edison making a small bench. So after Scrooge made his fortune, although he wanted to quickly collect Edison under the own banner while he was still not famous, he didn’t know where to find this “invention king” at all. Unexpectedly, the invention king had already smashed into own company, and he also made such an invention in own company.

“Scrooge, what is this thing? You have been looking at it for an hour and giggling!” Anna rang out with a little bit of anger.

“Ah, Anna, this thing is an invention used to deal with the boss Cha Gang. It is something made by a self-taught genius. I tell you, this is the case…”

Scrooge added to the story that Edison had made this time to tell Anna.

“This guy really knows how to be lazy.” Anna said, “However, this guy is really talented. It’s just that talent is useless in the right place.”

“Well, an amazing self-taught guy.” Scrooge said, “This guy has only been in elementary school for three months. Now I don’t know if the beard has grown, he can make such a delicate design. Something. What a pervert.”

“Humph.” Anna snorted disapprovingly, stretched out her hand and gently stroked Scrooge’s chin, and said with a grin, “A self-taught guy, well, I don’t know if the beard has grown, so I just drove it. Several companies have become one of the richest big bosses in the United States. This is really a pervert. I am a pervert, and I still talk about other people there. This is really fun.”

Scrooge grabbed Anna’s hand, straightened his face, and said fiercely: “You dare to say that my beard has grown out? It seems that if you don’t punish you, you won’t know that the sky is high! Come on! Stretch out your face and let me pierce you with a beard!”

“Ah, no, I know it’s wrong! You forgive me!” Anna smiled and leaned back, seeming to want to escape from Scrooge, but Scrooge gently pulled. He pulled her into the arms of his own, and then used the newly grown beard stubble to rub her cheek vigorously.

“Ah, Scrooge, no, ah…”

“Catherine, why is your face not so good? Is it a little uncomfortable?” Carol asked worriedly at his wife.

“Nothing, I’m fine.” Catherine said, “I’m just worried that Scrooge will be back soon.”

“What does it matter?” Carroll said. “Scrooge came back to show that the railroad was in good condition. This is a good thing.”

Catherine glared at Carol, and said, “Somehow things are on the right track. We have some personal time, and it’s less than a week. Well, it’s easy, and it’s much more tired than when we were in Europe. Now when Scrooge came back, God knows, um, I heard that Scrooge just discovered a huge iron ore over there. It is said that it is also very close to Lake Superior, which is very suitable for development.” Catherine grabbed the card. Roll’s hand, looking at him, there seemed to be tears flickering in his big eyes, “Carol, will he come back this time, will he let you be responsible for the development of that iron ore in the past?”

Carol was stunned. He had never thought of this problem. He stammered and said, “I don’t know, I should…” He didn’t know what to say, because he saw the big drop. The tears were rolling down from his wife’s eyes.

“What’s wrong…what’s wrong with you…” Carol was deserted.

Catherine hugged Carol and pressed her face to Carol’s chest, “Carol, don’t you go, okay, here, I only have you as a relative. Don’t go!”

“Okay, okay.” Carol was helpless, holding Catherine, gently stroking her back, comforting her awkwardly.

“Oh.” Catherine retched suddenly again.

“What’s the matter, you’re sick again? Or I’ll call Dr. Menger to show you.” Carol said.

“No need.” Catherine said, “Dr. Heim had already been here in the morning. He said…” Catherine lowered her head and her voice became quiet.

“What did he say?” Carol asked anxiously.

“He said that the McDonald family is about to add a new member.” Catherine’s voice was almost inaudible.