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Chapter 271 Necessary for Time Travel—Making a Steam Engine ()

[This is an essential skill for time travel. Once you learn it, you can start the steam era! 】

After the people of various dynasties saw the titles on the marquee, they were a little confused. What kind of thing could start an era?

Among the knowledge they learned from Tianmu, although there was also extremely important knowledge, there was never knowledge that could create an era.

Even technologies like papermaking and printing that stimulated human civilization only made it easier for them to learn knowledge.

Not only the people of this dynasty didn't understand it, but the emperors of all dynasties didn't understand it either.

They are also looking forward to the specific video on the marquee, looking forward to what exactly can create an era.

So they put down their work and looked at the sky carefully.

[The principle of a steam engine is very simple, which is to convert the heat energy generated by steam into kinetic energy.

One of the simplest steam engine devices is the pneumatic ball. Although it has no other use than spinning, it is a good example of how steam creates power.

You can create a classic steam engine contraption just by improving on this technique.

The piston-type steam device generates kinetic energy by repeatedly moving the piston and using the connecting rod to drive the gear.

However, you can make steam engine devices for different purposes according to your own needs.

If you want to develop agriculture, you can make a steam tractor to plow the land. Although it is much slower than modern tractors, it was still very capable in ancient times.

If you want to develop business, you can build steam cars, steam ships, etc., which will allow your goods to circulate faster and make it easier for people to travel between cities.

Of course, you can also build a railway track and make a steam train to connect the territories of the dynasties you travel through.

In this way, not only will supplies circulate faster, but even when troops are marching to fight, it will also allow soldiers to rush to the battlefield faster.

And you can also use the power of the steam engine to drive the trebuchet to throw huge stones to capture the enemy's city.

It can even drive the city-breaking hammer that crashes into the door, allowing you to invade the opponent's city faster.

Moreover, the materials used to make steam engines are mainly wood and iron. This was not a rare thing in ancient times. The only thing that can embarrass you is the sealing problem.

If you can solve the sealing problem, you can definitely make a steam engine? Then go and start a new era! 】

After seeing the video on the canopy, landowners from various dynasties secretly thought about how much manpower they would save if they used the steam engines on the canopy.

If you use the steam engine on the canopy to make a machine that can plant fields, how much benefit can you bring to yourself?

As landowners, although they own a large amount of land, due to limited family manpower, they can only rent it to nearby people.

In this way, although they can maintain harvests due to droughts and floods, their profits have been reduced.

In order to obtain higher benefits, they hope to create a steam engine.

That way, you no longer have to rent your own land to nearby people, and you can hire people to plant it yourself, which will also lead to higher returns.

In order to achieve this goal, they began to recruit many skilled craftsmen and asked them to make steam engines based on the information on the canopy.

People from all dynasties saw the video on the sky screen, and they were stunned by what was in the video.

Especially after hearing the introduction on the marquee, they realized the value of this kind of thing even more.

In their era, the only driving force other than humans could be used was animals.

But what they didn't expect was that a small machine could have such power.

This also reminded them of the excavator they saw on the sky screen before. Now after seeing the video on the sky screen, they understood how the big guy moved.

In their opinion, the excavator must have this steam engine installed inside it to be able to move. And judging from what is said on the sky screen, this steam engine can not only make excavators, but also various machines.

Thinking of this, the eyes of the people of all dynasties showed green light.

They deeply understand the hard work of farming, but if they have this kind of machine, it will change the current situation.

By that time, they will have planted more land and will be able to eat enough every day.

In order to achieve this goal, they began to use their ingenuity and made it based on the limited information given on the marquee.

It's just that the results made them cry. No matter how they improved, the machines they produced would have various problems.

This deeply affected the people of all dynasties, and they slowly realized that there was such a huge gap between them and the later generations on the sky.

However, they did not give up. After all, the more difficult things were, the more benefits they could bring to them.

So they found a teacher who taught them, began to learn about writing knowledge, and read various technical books, hoping that they could create a real steam engine.

Qin Dynasty.

Qin Shihuang watched the video on the sky screen, and he became more and more amazed at the development of later generations.

He did not expect that the simple method of boiling water could be used by later generations to create steam engines.

Moreover, the role of this steam engine is also very extraordinary. Whether it is agriculture, commerce, or war machines, he is eager to own them.

By that time, he could, like later generations, use steam engines to make trains, allowing countless people and soldiers to travel between the two places.

In this way, Da Qin's territory will be more closely connected, and it will no longer be afraid of local uprisings!

Thinking of this, Qin Shihuang paid more and more attention to this steam engine. In his opinion, the production of this steam engine not only had the needs of the people, but also had political needs.

So he gave orders to the Mohist disciples to make the steam engine on the canopy.

After the disciples of the Mo family received the order, they took out the notebooks they recorded on the canopy.

When they saw how to make a steam engine played on the marquee, they quickly recorded it on paper.

After all, they are where they are today thanks to continuous learning on the horizon.

And now the order issued by Qin Shihuang is the time to apply the above content.

It was only after they did some real research that they discovered that making a steam engine was not that simple.

The difficulty is not the principle, but that after knowing the principle, the various parts can be perfectly combined so that the power of the produced machine can meet the requirements.

If it is simply made according to the drawings on the question, although it can be made, it can only be used for a few days before it will be destroyed by steam, so that the machine will be completely scrapped!

In order to research a steam engine that could be used for a long time, all the Mohist disciples began to study together.

Juniors from the Mo family who really love technology like this kind of challenging work very much.

In their view, only by accepting challenges can they grow faster.

This time, making a steam engine was a difficult challenge.

And as one of the only 100 companies with exposure to technology in this era, how could they easily admit defeat?

So they began to gather together and discuss how to make a steam engine?

This was discussed again and again, and the results were failures again and again.

It’s just that the disciples of the Mohist family are becoming more and more courageous with every setback!

As they built steam engines more and more times, they learned more and more.

(End of this chapter)