I want to be emperor

Chapter 1153 Humanity’s First Video

The mature use of cameras was not a big deal for the huge Chu Empire, and it did not cause too much trouble. Only the Chao Press Department ordered a small amount to record historical images.

Moreover, the people from the North Korea Newspaper Department moved relatively quickly. After getting the cameras a few days ago, they ran directly to the Huangpu River, took a boat and began to take pictures of the Huangpu River and the city scenes on the north bank, recording the endless flow of boats on the Huangpu River. , the picture shows various ships flowing continuously on the Huangpu River, numerous passenger ships and freighters moored at the docks on the shore, and the extremely tall Huangpu River Bridge, with the main pier reaching hundreds of meters high.

In addition, it also recorded the high-rise buildings on the shore. The main shooting scene was Linjiang North Road... and this Linjiang North Road is Songjiang City... to be precise, it is the most prosperous neighborhood in the world. Linjiang North Road is served by public trams and cars.

In this core area of ​​Songjiang City, there are dozens of skyscrapers, including the Imperial Hotel Daxia, Suzhou River Hotel Building, Finance Bank Building, Huatai Insurance Building, Jiangbei Daxia, Donghai Daxia and many more. Hundred-meter-tall skyscrapers, many of which are famous around the world, attract countless people to visit every year.

This section was filmed by the staff of the Chao Press Department. It was originally shot as a test. It lasted only 25 minutes and used 12 frames per second. Although it was not the first video clip in the Da Chu Empire, it was the first one. Long enough to use twelve frames of video.

The so-called videos before this can only be regarded as slideshows that play at a slightly faster speed. They are troublesome to shoot and difficult to watch when played back. From the perspective of future generations, they are not considered movies at all, but are at best slideshows.

But this time, the video shot by the Chao News Department has a clear picture. Although it only has a frame rate of 12, it still seems to be stuck when playing, but it can be viewed normally.

Therefore, from a modern perspective, this experimental video shot by the staff of the Chao Press Department is the first qualified video in human history.

If it is preserved for decades or even more than a hundred years later, this video will become the most important historical data... telling people that the empire was already so prosperous even more than a hundred years ago!

There are giant ships of 10,000 tons sailing on the river, cross-river bridges spanning hundreds of meters, and skyscrapers more than 100 meters high.

There are also public trams and cars passing through the streets along the river in the distance!

If people from more than a hundred years later saw all this, they would probably feel it was unreal... Was the empire already so developed and prosperous more than a hundred years ago?

Just like people from the original time and space watching historical videos or photos from more than a hundred years ago, it is difficult to imagine that people more than a hundred years ago were able to build skyscrapers, bridges spanning thousands of meters and tens of meters in height, and cars. Filling the streets.

The camera has appeared. It is estimated that the camera is unlikely to have any actual commercial value for a long time in the future, but it is still good as a historical recording device. This is why the Chao News Agency values ​​the camera.

The use of these cameras, as well as cameras that have been used on a large scale before, is enough to record a large number of historical images and provide precious historical information for future generations.

The camera that appeared at the Songjiang Electric Exhibition was just one of many new products and new technologies. It was not even a new technology product that was too important to cause much impact.

What really made a big impact at the electrical exhibition were several other products, including the new telephone system newly developed and launched by Yingtian Mechanical and Electrical Company.

Although it is still a common-power telephone, its overall performance is better than that of the original telephone. Through manual transfer, a telephone network can be set up and used for telephone communication.

The most important thing is that the cost of this new system has been greatly reduced, allowing the phone to truly become a civilian product, instead of just being an expensive military communication device as before.

Previous telephone equipment was very expensive, so expensive that even the military could not purchase too much equipment, and even less for civilian use.

Like many other new products, the high cost has become the main obstacle to the large-scale popularization of phones.

In response to this problem, Yingtian Mechanical and Electrical Company continued to study for several years and tried every means to reduce various costs, and finally developed a cost-controllable telephone system.

Of course, the main customers of this new telephone system, or the customers that Yingtian Mechanical and Electrical Company originally planned to promote, are actually the military and administrative systems.

The military and administrative systems were also the main users of telephones in the past.

However, after the emergence of their new telephone system, they attracted the attention of the Dachu Empire Telegraph Corporation. People from the Telegraph Corporation believed that the cost of the new telephone system had dropped, and the current cost could be used for private promotion, at least to some Users such as high-income families and enterprises will not find it expensive.

The Dachu Empire Telegraph Corporation is a very special company. They have the only telegraph and telephone commercial license in the Dachu Empire!

All commercial telegraph and telephone services are their exclusive business, and other companies or individuals are not allowed to get involved.

The telegraph business is okay. Whether it is wired telegraphy or wireless telegraphy, the development of telegraph business relies on telegraph offices and letter delivery.

If people want to send a telegram, they need to go to a telegraph office to send a telegram. After the telegraph office in other places receives the telegram through wired or wireless telegraph equipment, it translates it and records it as a letter, and then the postal company performs the final terminal delivery within the county.

But the telephone service is different. The telephone line must be pulled directly to the customer's institution or home, and the telephone set must be installed in the home of the enterprise or individual user.

This involves the cost of setting up a telephone line network and the cost of the telephone itself.

Then a center for transferring calls is needed to manually transfer calls.

This also results in more expensive costs.

This is also the reason why the telephone business in telegraph companies has been launched for several years, but only a few official agencies and some enterprises have installed it... Various equipment is too expensive, which ultimately leads to very expensive installation and usage costs, even for ordinary people Some companies cannot afford it.

But now, the new telephone system of Yingtian Mechanical and Electrical Company has greatly reduced the cost. It is not only the terminal telephone that reduces the cost, but also the corresponding switching equipment.

This means that the cost of setting up a telephone network has been reduced by at least half compared to before.

This also gave the telegraph company hope to further promote the telephone service. Their senior managers did not expect to roll it out now so that everyone can use the telephone. This is unrealistic!

The person in charge of the Telegraph Corporation hopes that after further reducing costs, telephones can be installed in official institutions of the empire, medium and large enterprises, and in some high-income households, thereby initially forming a telephone network!

Another problem that made it difficult to promote phones in the early days was that early phone installations were expensive to use, resulting in a sparse number of users... With fewer users, the role of the phone would not be that great.

After all, there are only a few users in a regional telephone network. Who can you call?

This also prevents many companies and wealthy people from installing and using phones.

Seriously speaking, in fact, most medium and large enterprises and wealthy families are not short of installation. For the money to use the phone... they even use the same expensive electrical equipment, as well as cars worth hundreds of dollars.

No matter how expensive a phone is, it's not that expensive.

However, in the early days, the telephone network was sparse, and the limited telephone users were all administrative agencies... so many companies and wealthy people were too lazy to do it. But now that the overall cost of telephone equipment has been greatly reduced, the Telegraph Corporation is confident that it can carry out large-scale promotion and turn the telephone network into a real telephone network as soon as possible.

If we have a large number of telephone users and generate revenue from them, we can reduce the huge cost of the long-distance telephone backbone network being built by Telegraph Corporation.

Yes, although the current telephone network is still very small, and there is no even a civilian telephone network, as an enterprise directly under the Ministry of Industry that assumes the responsibility for electromagnetic communication infrastructure, even if it is simply to meet the needs of Gyeonggi and other places. Implementing long-distance telephone communications also requires the establishment of a long-distance telephone network.

Last year, the Telegraph Corporation successfully set up the first long-distance telephone network, that is, the long-distance telephone network from Jinling City to Songjiang City.

It is worth noting that the installation of this telephone line is actually at the same height as the installation of wired telegraph... both are along the railway line.

The railway network all over the country made it cheaper to build wired telegraph and telephone networks in the Chu Empire.

Nowadays, the Telegraph Corporation is setting up more long-distance backbone telephone networks. The main project is the telephone network connecting Jinling City to provincial capitals, important cities, and strategic locations.

Its main core purpose is not to serve the civilian telephone network system, but to serve administrative and military services. It is part of the strategic communication network project of the Dachu Empire.

The strategic communication network in the Da Chu Empire consisted of three parts. The first part was wired telegraph, the second part was wireless telegraph, and the third part was wired telephone.

At present, only the wired telegraph system has truly formed a global communication network. Especially after the successful laying of multiple continuous submarine telegraph cables, the global wired telegraph network of the Dachu Empire has been very complete.

Among them, there are submarine cables from the coast of East Asia to Fuso Province, to North and South America, from the Americas to Europe, to Africa, in addition to Guangzhou to Nanyang Luzon, Singapore and many other submarine cables... After solving the technical problems of submarine cable laying, Telegraph Corporation At an astonishing speed, a lot of money was invested and a large number of submarine cables were laid around the world.

These submarine cables and many backbone telegraph networks on land together formed the global wired telegraph backbone network of the Chu Empire.

It is then distributed through the regional telegraph networks of each province, ultimately achieving global telegraph communication.

This is a very large and complex wired telegraph communication system.

The reason why a lot of money was invested in wired telegraphy after the advent of wireless telegraphy is because the limitations of radio in the contemporary Chu Empire are still relatively large. The high cost is only one aspect. The more important reason is that the current radio technology is relatively poor and signal transmission is poor. The quality is relatively poor, it is easily interfered by various factors, and the amount of information transmitted is also relatively small. Finally, it is difficult to keep it confidential... There is a risk that the password will be deciphered.

Therefore, in the contemporary Chu Empire, although wireless telegraphy was also used, it was also widely used in administration, military, commerce and even civilian use.

However, wired telegraphy has not been completely replaced, but is in a situation of common development... Even contemporary wired telegraphy has an advantage, occupying the main volume of telegrams sent and received.

In addition to the two telegraphs, another method of strategic communication is the telephone... This thing originally appeared as a military network.

At the beginning, it was developed by teachers and students of the Royal Institute of Technology in order to develop a way for superiors to communicate better with their subordinates in a timely manner.

The early single-line telephone system was purely used in the military field. The earliest telephone line in the Great Chu Empire was the telephone line from the Jinling Palace to the Guards barracks on the outskirts of the city. It was a pure single-line connection, just to let the emperor call at critical moments. He was able to take control at once and command the Guards.

Later, public telephones were gradually developed, which were still mainly used in the military field, and later gradually used in administrative agencies.

However, for a long time, these telephone networks were regional and dedicated internal networks, such as the telephone network in the military and even field telephone networks.

Later, the Telegraph Corporation was allowed to launch commercial telephone services, and part of the administrative telephone network established in the early stage was handed over to the Telegraph Corporation for subsequent construction and operation.

Finally, the current preliminary telephone network was established, but it was still very primitive and did not form a national telephone network. There were only a few long-distance backbone telephone networks and regional telephone networks in each province with provincial capitals as the core.

However, the advantage of the telephone in real-time communication cannot be replaced by the telegraph, so the empire's top officials also attached great importance to the establishment of a telephone network.

The important task of setting up a national or even global telephone network system is naturally handed over to the Telegraph Corporation... Therefore, regardless of whether the civilian telephone network makes money or not, the Telegraph Corporation must set up a global telephone network... This It is administrative and military needs, not a matter of making money or not.

However, if civilian telephones can also be developed and a large amount of revenue can be obtained from them, it can also effectively reduce the hard costs of building a global telephone network for the Telegraph Corporation.

Therefore, the Telegraph Corporation still attaches great importance to the new telephone system developed by Yingtian Mechanical and Electrical Company.

After conducting many inspections and experiments, the Telegraph Corporation no longer hesitated and directly placed a large order... The first batch of orders alone was worth five million, and it purchased all the equipment in this telephone system. and a large number of terminal telephones.

The Telegraph Corporation planned to use these devices to replace early telephone equipment with poor performance and build a new generation of telephone communication systems.

This order was a huge surprise to Yingtian Mechanical and Electrical Company. They had thought that they could get the order before, but they didn't know that there would be such a big order... This is only the first batch of orders. If nothing else, there will be more to come.

This telephone system alone is enough to create a lot of profits for their company!

With profits, we can carry out research and development of many projects. With research and development results, we can continue to compete with several other electrical companies and even Li's Electric Company!

The competition in the electrical industry in the Dachu Empire is also very fierce...and the competition range is very wide, from light bulbs to various specifications of motors and generators, then to power transmission and transformation equipment, to telegraphs, telephones and other communication equipment, and then to all kinds of novel electrical products.

There are several large electrical appliance companies in the Dachu Empire, mainly Songjiang Electric, Yingtian Mechanical and Electrical, Xuzhou Electric, Li's Electric, plus a new private electrical company 'Jiangnan Electrical Equipment Company' that was integrated from multiple small and medium-sized electrical companies. The competition between these five large electrical companies spans almost every electrical field.

The overall competition is extremely fierce.