Rise of Australia

Chapter 410 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

At the request of Britain, France and Russia, Arthur sold more than 300 old first-generation military aircraft in the inventory of the Aviation Research Office to them, and sold them the complete first-generation military aircraft technology.

Although the technology was transferred, it was not a loss to Arthur at all.Judging from the current pool of aerodynamics and aircraft manufacturing professionals in Australasia, it is basically impossible for a single country to catch up with Australasia's progress in aircraft.

As early as a few years ago, Australasia had reserved nearly one-third of the world's relevant talents, and now it will only increase.

Unless the remaining experts in Europe can unite, Australasia's advantage in aircraft cannot be made up in a short time.

Without Australia's intervention and participation, it would take at least ten years for European countries to develop military aircraft at the level of the current Australasian fourth-generation aircraft.

The aircraft in Australasia can be replaced at least twice in this decade. As the performance of the aircraft is getting better and better, the gap between Australasia and other countries in terms of aircraft will only grow wider.

This is actually the benefit of talent reserves.Just because Arthur understood this, he used the Victoria Award to buy a large number of top talents all over the world for his own and Australasia's use.

At present, Australasia has a very rich talent pool, and the top talent pool in some industries is not inferior to that of European powers.

According to rough statistics, as of 1915, Australasia had recruited at least thousands of physics and chemistry experts from Europe, at least hundreds of internationally renowned experts, and countless well-known experts in the industry.

Although the Royal Australasian Institute of Physical and Chemical Research uses at least 500 million Australian dollars in research funds every year, the results of these experts' research have made Australasia a lot of progress in various aspects.

This also led to the Victoria Awards being held in Europe as usual, and the cruel European war did not affect the awarding of this award, which has been recognized as the highest award in the academic world.

Of course, it's not yet time for the New Year's Victoria Awards.But Arthur's action of attracting talents will not stop at any time.

On July 1915, 7, Batty, the head of the Royal Security Intelligence Service, reported good news to Arthur, that is, among the new round of 1 Russian immigrants, there are a lot of talents.

Although Russia is not as good as the top powers such as Britain, France and Germany in terms of scientific research, this does not mean that Russia lacks talents in general.

On the contrary, Russia has a lot of talents, but a considerable part is not reused by the current Russian government.

If Russia has no talents, the Soviet Union will not quickly become a superpower alongside the United States in the future.

It took some time to investigate these 20 Russian immigrants, but compared to the report after the investigation, the time spent is nothing.

The talents in the new batch of Russian immigrants include talents in agriculture, industry, physics, chemistry, etc., and even talents in aerodynamics, airship and aircraft manufacturing.

The most noteworthy name is undoubtedly Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who is well-known in Russia.

Arthur also knew something about this great name. In later generations, Tsiolkovsky was known as the founder of modern cosmonautics and the father of aerospace.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was born in 1857 and is currently 58 years old.

Tsiolkovsky was born in an ordinary peasant family in Ryazan Province, Russia. Because the family living environment was not good, and Tsiolkovsky caught a severe cold when he was ten years old, which led to scarlet fever, and eventually almost completely lost his hearing. Therefore, he was not sent to Moscow by his parents until he was 16 to study.

Speaking of this, I have to mention the European education at that time.Different from the unified college entrance examination that people are familiar with in later generations, most of the education in the West at this time is based on the application system. Universities conduct examinations according to their own admission requirements, and those who are the best will enroll.

Of course, Tsiolkovsky, who was educated at the age of 16, naturally could not enter the university to study.In order to learn more knowledge, Tsiolkovsky spent three years in the library, taught himself analytic geometry, advanced algebra and calculus, learned about physics, chemistry and mechanics, and was very fond of astronomical novels and magazines.

An uneducated 16-year-old boy taught himself advanced algebra and calculus, and had to praise Tsiolkovsky for his intelligence.

After returning from his studies, Tsiolkovsky passed the examinations in the rural middle school and became a mathematics teacher in a small city middle school.

On the premise of teaching and educating people at the same time, Tsiolkovsky set up a laboratory by himself, and started independent research while teaching.

During this period, Tsiolkovsky published dozens of papers, which were not only frequently sent to the Physical and Chemical Society in St. Petersburg, but also praised by the famous Russian scientist Mendeleev.

In the later stage of the research, Tsiolkovsky shifted his interest to airships and proposed the idea of ​​an all-metal rigid airship.

This idea delighted the St. Petersburg government and hired Tsiolkovsky as an airship expert.

In fact, before the outbreak of World War I, Tsiolkovsky had already lived a life of petty bourgeoisie.As a Russian airship expert, he can get a salary of about 1200 rubles a year. Although it is not much, it is completely enough.

But the good times didn't last long.After the outbreak of World War I, the airship built by Tsiolkovsky's supervisor went to the battlefield and was quickly destroyed by Germany and Austria-Hungary.

Although Russia also destroyed airships from Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the news that a large number of investment in airships failed caused Russia to quickly abandon the entire airship research laboratory. As an airship expert, Tsiolkovsky also successfully became a vagrant and lost his golden job.

Although Tsiolkovsky can return to middle school to be his ordinary teacher, the seeds of Tsiolkovsky's space flight have already been planted when he was an airship expert, and it is impossible for him to stop researching at this time.

This is like taking off half of the pants but the other party said that relatives were coming. Tsiolkovsky scratched his head anxiously, and finally chose to look for new research opportunities abroad under the persuasion of his family.

Australasia became Tsiolkovsky's first target.For no other reason, a friend of Tsiolkovsky's had entered a university in Australia. At the invitation of his friend, Tsiolkovsky decided to send his resume to a university in Australasia, looking for an opportunity to be a professor in a certain university.

Tsiolkovsky has published many papers on rocket theory and space flight in the scientific report, and it is these well-known papers that made Director Batty quickly notice Tsiolkovsky and report it to Arthur.

For an expert in rocket theory and spaceflight, Arthur was no doubt very welcome.

What's more, the other party still voted with his family. For such an expert who has no background and is dedicated to scientific research, Arthur can be said to be open to all comers.

In early July, Arthur received Tsiolkovsky at Sydney Palace and had a long and pleasant conversation with Tsiolkovsky on rocket theory.

As Tsiolkovsky, who is later praised as the founder of modern spaceflight and the father of aviation, his ability is beyond doubt, and many ideas are unconstrained.

It is these unique ideas that have laid a solid foundation for future space navigation and spaceflight.

Arthur was very satisfied with Tsiolkovsky's ideas and abilities, and immediately promised to give Tsiolkovsky the post of honorary professor of the Aviation Academy of the Royal Military Academy in Sydney, and to be named in the Royal Australasian Physical Chemistry Research Association.

After all, Tsiolkovsky is 58 years old, and Arthur's greatest expectation is to recommend the foundation of Australasian space navigation and aerospace, and research rockets by the way.

The purpose of joining the Physical Chemistry Research Association is to allow Tsiolkovsky to obtain more research funds and use more advanced research laboratories.

As for the position at the Academy of Aeronautics at the Royal Military Academy in Sydney, Arthur also hopes that Tsiolkovsky can cultivate more talents for Australasia, and more practically promote the development of Australasia's space navigation and aerospace industry.

This can be regarded as planning for the future, although it is impossible to develop rockets in a short period of time to realize space travel.

But at least it can lay a solid foundation for the future, and it can also be one step ahead of other countries in this regard.

After all, other countries were still busy with World War I at this time, and the simplest basic military aircraft was already the pinnacle of their current aviation.

Other countries research aircraft, and Australasia researches rockets. This is already a huge level of leadership.

Tsiolkovsky is also very satisfied with Arthur's arrangement.He had come to Australasia simply looking for a post, an opportunity to continue his theoretical research in rocketry and spaceflight.

Unexpectedly, he was appreciated by Arthur as soon as he came to Australasia. He not only successfully entered the Royal Military Academy in Sydney, the top university in Australasia, but also entered the Royal Society for Physical and Chemical Research in Australasia.

Of course, Arthur gave Tsiolkovsky more rewards than these.A house in Sydney, as well as the work of Tsiolkovsky's family, were settled by Arthur in one sentence.

Arthur even promised that as long as Tsiolkovsky's theoretical research made good progress, the aeronautical laboratory would be handed over to Tsiolkovsky in the future to truly invest in aviation research.

At present, the main business of the aeronautical laboratory is to research and manufacture aircraft. With the increasing importance of aircraft, it is necessary to build an independent aircraft research and manufacturing factory.

The aeronautical laboratory can just divide the aircraft and aviation. The aircraft business establishes a new aircraft factory, and the aeronautical laboratory is engaged in aviation research.

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