The Uncanny: The Knowledgeable Returns From Warhammer

Chapter 41 Development and Batteries

On the side of the road outside the gate of the small white building of the Antiquities Protection Association in Tingen City, Six Fingers led two more loyal subordinates, waiting anxiously and excitedly, with cigarette butts under their feet layer after layer.

What makes him feel uneasy is that Evan Stimson, who is fighting with the madman, is not easy to deal with. What is exciting is that almost everyone thinks that if he can win this business and participate in industrial production, he will be on the verge of The collapsed Razor Gang will be rejuvenated, possessing the confidence and strength to fight head-on with the Bloody Hand.

"By the way... Boss Walker has been in for almost a day. Could it be that something happened?"

The crow mouth of his subordinates during the long wait made the eyelids of Liuzhi who was squatting on the side of the road twitch wildly. Combined with the solemn expression on his face when he reported the investigation results to Walker, he immediately felt angry.

Gouging out a fierce look at the rash subordinate, he asked a little bit of self-comfort:
"What's the matter? We're here to discuss business, not to mess around!"

As soon as the words fell, the door of the Association for the Protection of Ancient Relics was finally slowly pushed open, and the one-eyed Walker, who was wearing a black suit and a wide-brimmed jazz hat, walked out slowly with a smile on his face.

This made the overjoyed Liuzhi not care about educating his subordinates, and hurriedly greeted him with his numb legs.

"Boss Walker, how is the situation?"

Glancing at his expectant subordinates, One-eyed Walker said helplessly, "It's still [-] to [-] percent!"

"Why is it only [-]%?" Liuzhi's eyes widened for a moment, as if he was very dissatisfied with the outcome of the meeting.

However, what he didn't expect was that One-eyed Walker shook his head and said, "Seventy percent belongs to others, and it depends on their face to get thirty percent."

"Wait a minute, boss, let me stroke..."

Suddenly feeling a bit confused, the six fingers rubbed their cheeks, dispersed the subordinates who followed behind, and then twisted the six fingers on their right hand, counting in disbelief:

"We spend money to buy raw materials at low prices, and we are also responsible for transportation, storage, recruitment of workers and payment of salaries..."

Having said that, he suddenly raised his voice, and pointed angrily at the small white building of the Antiquities Protection Association of Tingen City behind him.

"So we came all the way to see that bastard's face?"

"Then don't we become beggars on our knees like the porters on the pier?"

Facing the crazy complaints from his subordinates, One-eyed Walker raised his hand and straightened his top hat. He didn't answer Six Fingers' question, but instead asked:

"Let me ask you, how old are you this year?"

"Two... 28!" Liu Zhi replied subconsciously.

"If you were to leave the Razor Gang, would you be able to find a similar decent job?"

Although he didn't understand what One-Eyed Walker's question had to do with this meeting, Liuzhi still stuck his neck and said a little unconvinced: "He is a student of Tingen City Technical School, and I haven't attended school for a few days at all. "

"That's the problem, Six Fingers!" One-eyed Walker suddenly nodded.

For his most loyal subordinate, he explained slowly without any impatience: "After graduation, a student with no background in mechanical engineering immediately went to work on the protection of ancient relics, and he also took the standard weapon of the policeman to shoot himself. It’s unreasonable to have your head tied to your waistband looking for us to do business.”

"And do you still remember how the fly jumping up and down died after the bloody gang picked up Senator Maynard?"

"By..." Liuzhi opened his mouth, and suddenly remembered that after the neck of the fly was twisted, it was thrown into the stinky ditch like garbage. Because he was a bachelor like him, no one dared to collect the corpse for several days. I really can't stand the smell, when I pull it up, it's like what the other party has done, it's already rotten.

The reason seems to be that the other party relied on the power of the bloody party to do some scandalous things, and shot and wounded the police officers who went to arrest them, and then they were shot by the storm priest who "coincidentally" passed by.

Of course, this is just some gossip that the high-level members of the black street rats have worked so hard to inquire about. Most people think it is just an ordinary gang fight.

Thinking of the unrecognizable swollen corpse of the fly, Liuzhi suddenly felt a chill, shrank his neck, and said hesitantly:

"Old... big, you mean?"

"I didn't say anything, and you didn't hear anything." One-eyed Walker forced a smile.

In fact, just relying on these, he can't confirm the specialness of Evan Stimson. Maybe that guy is just lucky to find such a decent and leisurely job, or maybe he just happened to pick up a gun. The audacity to come here to deliberately blackmail himself.

But this morning, just entering the Association for the Preservation of Antiquities, an acquaintance wearing the uniform of the Chief Inspector and wearing gold-rimmed glasses "coincidentally" passed by and warned him not to investigate anything about Evan Stimson.

This shocked him physically and mentally, and at the same time, he completely became a bit of a worm when it came to talks about redistribution of income.

After stopping the complicated thoughts in his mind, and reaching out to stop the passing taxi, the one-eyed Walker, who seemed to have suddenly remembered something, turned his head to Six Fingers behind him and said earnestly:
"Stop investigating Evan Stimson and keep our people away from their homes."

After finishing speaking, Liuzhi was left alone in place, got into the carriage and drove away.

……

On the other side, in the Antiquities Protection Association of Tingen City, after finalizing the details with the one-eyed Walker who specially visited in the cubicle, Ivan walked into the basement again.

Two days after the last roundup of the Dragon Bar, the bicycle project has been taken over by the Backlund Steel Company under the activities of the church, and it is preparing to start the trial production of the first batch of prototypes. He and Upton’s technology patent fees, It is estimated that nearly [-] pounds will be credited next week,
In addition, it is not a model of buyout mechanism. There will be a certain percentage of patent dividends every year, the first batch of bicycle trials, the first batch of product naming rights and other additional benefits.

The other good news is that Jenny, who hadn't seen him for a long time, came here to tell him that her parents' health has improved greatly after receiving treatment, and she also found a leisure job in the warehouse on the banks of the Hoy River in the north. There is a high salary close to 6 soli a pound.

At his request, Jenny also successfully passed the entrance examination for the technical school in Tingen.

It is undeniable that there are more or less shadows of the Church of Steam in all these incidents, but Ivan doesn't care.

In short, everything is developing peacefully in the direction he expected, and he has already started the preparatory work for the trial production of the flashlight early.

Among them, the bulb, barrel, switch and reflector have been given to Upton by him.

As a disposable battery, the dry battery he is responsible for is not only suitable for daily necessities such as flashlights, semiconductor radios, cameras, cameras, electronic clocks, etc., but also widely used in military, scientific research, telecommunications, navigation, aviation, medicine, etc. big field.

In fact, with the development of industry, practical storage batteries have appeared on the market and have been successfully used in wireless telegraphs. However, as "lead-acid batteries", they all need to be filled between two metal plates without exception. It is difficult to carry because it is filled with liquid, especially the liquid used in the storage battery is sulfuric acid, which is more dangerous when moving.

Ordinary dry batteries are mostly manganese-zinc batteries, with a positive carbon rod in the middle, a mixture of graphite and manganese dioxide on the outside, and a thick electrolyte paste coated on the outer fiber mesh. The main components are ammonium chloride solution, starch and a small amount of anti-corrosion. The outermost layer of the battery is wrapped by metal zinc skin as the negative electrode.

Its working principle is roughly that ammonium chloride, which is used as an electrolyte, reacts electrolytically with the zinc skin, and releases charges that are conducted by graphite to the positive carbon rod to power the device.

At the same time, the electrolysis reaction of zinc will release hydrogen gas, which increases the internal resistance of the battery, and the manganese dioxide mixed with graphite inside can be used to absorb the hydrogen gas generated by electrolysis.

If the battery works continuously or is used for too long, the manganese dioxide has no time to absorb the hydrogen, which will cause the internal resistance of the battery to be too large and the output current to be too small, temporarily lose its function, or even bulge, leak and so on.

There is also a small life trick that people on the earth in the 2K era know, that is, to heat the battery slightly, or after a period of time, the hydrogen accumulated inside it will be released slowly by heating, reducing its internal resistance, and it can usually continue Use for a while.

At the same time, this is also the fundamental reason why the battery cannot be forcibly disassembled or baked on the fire after the battery bulges and leaks.

Because the hydrogen gas generated inside will really explode!

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