Opening game, American Tycoon

Chapter 288 The Buried Person (Second Update, please subscribe)
Facts have proved that the cause of this "misshot" is actually a communication problem.

To put it bluntly, there is a problem with the communication between the airship team and the army, but in this era, this kind of communication between heaven and earth does not need to be considered at all.

In fact, not to mention the communication between heaven and earth, even the communication on the ground is extremely inconvenient in this era.But the invention of the telegraph more than two decades ago changed all that to a great extent.But it has only changed to a certain extent. After all, telegrams require professional training from sending to translation.

However, it is also thanks to the invention of the telegraph that a new industry has appeared in the world-the telegraph company.

The South China Telegraph Company was established in 1862. Although it was established only a few years ago, it has built thousands of kilometers of telegraph lines to connect Nanhua with Shanxi, Patagonia and Shandong. As a company, Due to the need for development, South China Telegraph needs to hire technical personnel in various countries through its overseas offices every year.

Like all external offices, the New York office also advertises vacancies through newspapers.

For those impoverished immigrants from various countries living in New York, job advertisements in newspapers are undoubtedly their hope of life.

"Nolita" in lower Manhattan is the famous "Little Italy", where many immigrants from Italy live, although the streets here are dirty and chaotic, and every room is crowded, but for those from Italy For many immigrants, this is the only place where they can feel safe in the New World, even if it is full of poverty and mafia, so what?

For those immigrants who can't speak English, at least they have hope of living here. If they leave here, they can't even survive if they don't speak English.

Antonio Mucci, a doctor, is such a person. Although he immigrated to the United States as early as 1845, until now, he still does not speak English. Although he calls himself a doctor, his life is still poor. It is because his treatment method is very different - electrotherapy.After immigrating to the United States, in order to improve his living environment, he began to study electrophysiology, which he was very interested in.And developed a method of treating diseases with electric shocks.It's just that people have always been skeptical about this informal treatment method, and there are not many customers who come to the door, which directly caused his life to be extremely uneasy.It can even be said to be poor.

As usual, when I came to my friend's store and saw that there was no patient in the store, Anthony said to Mucci.

"Mucci, my friend, maybe you should get out of here? There will be more people outside,"

"Get out of here? I don't speak English."

Of course, Mucci thought about leaving Little Italy. Only by leaving here would he have more customers, but for him who cannot speak English, leaving here meant that he could not survive.

"I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about leaving America..."

Throwing the "Nolita Daily" in his hand, which is the Italian newspaper in Little Italy, to Mucci, Anthony said.

"Look, this telegraph company is hiring technicians, you might be able to apply there, it's not in the US, but if you get the job, you can make $100 a month!"

"I don't understand the telegraph!"

Mu Qi directly refused.

"Mucci, have you forgotten your invention?"

"Invention? What invention?"

"Is that the "long-distance transmitter"?",

"Telephone?"

Mu Qi was stunned, he really almost forgot.

That was his invention 20 years ago, in 1849, when he was preparing to treat a friend who was in another room, an unexpected miracle happened, through a wire connecting the two rooms, he heard clearly A friend's voice came from another room.Since then, he has spent several years refining that invention.

"If you take your invention to the past, they will definitely be willing to spend a lot of money to hire you! At least they will buy your invention."

"Well, I don't speak English! And what if they take away my invention?"

In fact, his invention was already very mature as early as 1860. In order to promote his invention, Mucci even published an introduction about the prototype of the telephone in an Italian newspaper in New York. However, he did not apply for a patent for the invention, because in the United States It takes US$250 to apply for a patent. The impoverished Mucci couldn’t afford that huge sum of money. As he didn’t know English, he couldn’t find investors because he failed to integrate into American society.

That's why his invention has been delayed until now.

"Mucci, you have to try. You know, this is the only job advertisement that doesn't limit the language. Maybe this is an opportunity."

opportunity!

Opportunities are always prepared for those who are prepared. When Mucci, accompanied by his son, came to the American office in New York, almost as soon as he showed his invention, he immediately aroused the interest of recruiters. .

"You mean, this invention of yours can transmit sound?"

Zhao Mingqing looked at the drawings curiously. As a company recruiter, he was mainly responsible for receiving Italian-speaking personnel.
"Did you bring anything in kind?"

Compared with this blueprint, he needs the real thing as proof.

"This, this, sir, if you are interested, I can bring it here."

The 61-year-old Mucci seemed a little nervous. Out of caution, he didn't bring the actual "telegraph for the master's speech", but he was afraid that the other party would not believe him, so he explained.

"The "telephone" is actually a diaphragm that vibrates, and this vibration changes the current in an energized electromagnet. This change in current transmits the same vibration when it is transmitted to the other end of the wire Give the receiving membrane, and restore it to words..."

In fact, Mucci's invention was completely accidental. Back then, he inserted a metal reed connected to a coil into his friend's mouth, and the coil was connected to a conductor in another room.In fact, the metal reed acts as a sensor here, and it is precisely because it is connected to the coil that its vibration is converted into an electric current.Mucci immediately realized the unusual significance of this phenomenon, and immediately set about researching what he called a "talking telegraph" device.

The following year, Mucci's telephone was named "Long-distance Telephone".In the meantime, the device was being further refined: at first, the crude coils were replaced by assemblies of magnet coils and diaphragms.In addition, Mucci also conceived of multipliers that strengthen the signal along the line to avoid the gradual attenuation of the long-distance transmission signal.

Although he has already created a perfect "long-distance telephony machine", he has no channels to promote it and change his life.More importantly, it is difficult for Mucci, who does not speak English, to persuade others to invest in or buy his invention in Italian.

But he is also cautious. After all, even in the United States, there are many "invention thieves" who specialize in defrauding other people's inventions.

Because of this, he didn't bring the real thing when he came this time.

(End of this chapter)