Opening game, American Tycoon

Chapter 226 The Inventor in the Slums (I wish everyone a healthy Dragon Boat Festival!)
New York itself is built according to the port, and there are dozens of docks of different sizes distributed around the island of Manhattan.The spacious river is full of various sailboats and steamboats.

With the sound of the whistle, the steamer slowly approached the pier, belching thick smoke.Every day, tens of thousands of European immigrants come to New York by steamship and come to the New World. Many of them are penniless, and many of them are forced to make ends meet. Watching fathers, husbands, older brothers or brothers being arrested.

The helpless women can only helplessly look for jobs in New York. The lucky ones will become maids, and the unlucky ones may even become prostitutes.Only a lucky few have the opportunity to take a steam locomotive along the railway deep into the hinterland.

The railroads and immigration are changing the country, and of course the ongoing wars are changing the country.

The fifth borough of lower Manhattan is one of the most famous slums in New York. There are many impoverished Irish people living here. Most of them wear rough and shabby clothes with dirty faces. You can tell they are The Irish immigrants who just came here, of course, the immigrants here are not only Irish, but also Germans, French and Italians.Among these immigrants, there are not only ordinary people, but also many skilled workers, even engineers and mechanics.

But no matter where they come from, there are definitely not many well-dressed people, so what if they are engineers?There is no shortage of such people in the United States, not to mention that they are newcomers to your land and can do it.In such a place, there are not many well-dressed people like Lu Anxue.

Ever since he came here, he felt that he had attracted the attention of others. For this reason, Lu Anxue's right hand deliberately plucked the hem of his clothes, revealing the short gun holster around his waist.This reduced the hostility a lot. In this kind of place, fists are the truth!Colt is the guarantee!
Lu An came here to find a watchmaker.

Looking for a watchmaker in the Fifth District?

Does shoe repair need to travel so far?

Of course he didn't need it, but the reason why he came here to look for the watchmaker was entirely because of an occasional hearsay.

Maybe others would laugh off the hearsay, but Lu Anxue felt that the rumor seemed true and very useful.

According to someone else's introduction, that person lives in the fifth district and is a watchmaker, but there is more than one watchmaker here.

Come on, find it!
But you can always find it aimlessly.

Looking at the few little beggars on the side of the road, maybe these little beggars walking around the streets should know where they live.

Just when Lu Anxue was walking towards those little beggars.

Suddenly a figure appeared in front of him.A boy who looked about thirteen or fourteen years old, he was wearing a uniform.

postman.

The appearance of postmen made Lu Anxue's eyes shine. Compared with beggars, these postmen are real living maps!
"Hello, lad."

"Sir, are you calling me??"

The little postman was puzzled.

"Yes, can I ask you something?"

Lu An Xuemo produced a ten-cent coin, and the little postman happily took it immediately.

"Sir, do you have any orders?"

"I'm looking for a watchmaker, a watchmaker who can invent, he seems to be called..."

"Henri Goebbels! Sir, everyone here knows him. He is Mr. Henry Goebbels. He even made a telescope to watch the stars and the moon in the square. It only costs 1 cent at a time."

This is really effortless!
"Sir, they live in front, No. [-], that's Mr. Pierre's apartment, and Mr. Henri Goebbels' shoe shop is there. Be careful, there is sewage on the ground."

Someone led the way ahead, and soon they reached their destination.

"Well, sir, this is it, and that is Mr. Goebbels' shop."

Finally, when he arrived in front of a dilapidated three-story apartment building, Lu Anxue looked at the simple watch shop and seemed to understand why the watchmaker didn't apply for a patent—poor!

It takes money to apply for a patent. For most ordinary people, let alone spend more than ten dollars to apply for a patent, even life is a problem.

"What? Light?"

Henry Goebbels looked at the oriental man in surprise. Originally he thought that the man came to repair his watch, but he never thought it was for his old invention many years ago.

"Yes, sir, I heard from others that a watchmaker named Goebbels on Monroe Street made a lamp for lighting by electricity more than ten years ago, and it even lasted for hundreds of hours. Excuse me. Did you invent it?"

"Ah, I did make it ten years ago, but he doesn't seem to be of much use."

Henry Goebbels shrugged his shoulders casually, and then said.

"After all, it takes electricity to light it up, a lot of electricity, and there are a lot of technical difficulties, even now."

Is that why he didn't apply for a patent?

For this reason, Edison invented not only electric lights, but a series of inventions from generators to light switches. With these inventions, electric lights became popular. Otherwise, it was just a light bulb, that is, a light bulb.

It is precisely because he did not see its usefulness that Henry Goebbels did not apply for it. After all, applying for a patent requires funds. In history, many inventors who lived in poverty did not even have the funds to apply for a patent. Leave your own inventions at home to shed ashes.

Even Henry Goebbels used a carbonized bamboo thread to emit electricity under a vacuum glass bottle as early as 1854, and the light bulb he tested at that time could last for 400 hours, but he had no money to apply for a patent. Coupled with the limitations of knowledge, he ignored this invention.Twenty years later, Edison became the inventor of the electric light bulb.And what about Henri Goebbels?He was even sued by Edison for serving as a technical consultant to the light bulb company and producing the electric light he invented, and eventually died in poverty.

"So, sir, do you have the actual lamp here?"

"Of course, it has always been put in a box by me. As long as it is powered on, it will light up. Sir, are you interested in it? I have some other inventions here. I am a mechanic. Sir, I have other and better inventions that may interest you."

Seeing that the other party did not answer immediately, Henry Goebbels quickly changed his words.

"100 dollars, just 100 dollars, I can sell it to you, including my design drawings, sir, what do you think?"

　I wish you all a healthy Dragon Boat Festival!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)