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Chapter 356: The Era of Electronic Computers (Third update, please subscribe)

The day the world changed?

When the Z5 came out as the first transistor computer, few people thought that the world would be changed!

It's almost... there is one exception.

For Li Yi'an, nothing is more exciting than the birth of Z5. Almost as soon as he learned the news, he rushed to Nanyang University and inquired about the various functions of this electronic computer in detail.

"According to testing, the calculation speed of Z5 is 115000 additions or 10000 multiplications per second..."

Don’t underestimate this 11 times. The “ENIAC” in the United States, the world’s first electronic computer, only has 5000 times!

"I think that by further optimizing the structure, the performance can be at least doubled. However, now I am more inclined to its practical testing. As a general-purpose computer, it can perform various engineering data calculations and can save designers from tedious calculations. liberated from it.”

This was the original motivation for Chu Ze, an engineer, to study computers - in order to no longer perform tedious engineering calculations.

"Yes, practicality is very important, Mr. Chu Ze. I believe it can be used in many fields, such as university teaching, engineering design, and national defense. So? I think we can build a second and a third one to promote , this is very important..."

Although Li Yian is a layman when it comes to computers, he is very aware of the importance of computers. After all, computers have changed the future of mankind.

Everything is based on a small transistor, from transistors to computers, then to integrated circuits, and then...ultimately, human life has been completely changed.

However, electronic computers need to be used, promoted, and applied in all aspects. Only by establishing market demand can the development of electronic computers be promoted. Compared with Europe and the United States, why is Soviet Russia’s electronic computer technology gradually lagging behind? Many people find this or that The reasons why the Soviet Union and Russia were obsessed with electron tubes, why they chose germanium crystals, and so on.

But everyone has overlooked one point - the rigid promotion and use system resulted in no promotion at all in the early applications of computers!

Just like after the first transistor computer was successfully developed in Soviet Russia, only a few were built, all of which were used for national defense. As for the applications in engineering fields such as construction, machinery, and electricity that require large amounts of calculations, there were zero applications! Not only that, it was even kept strictly confidential, so that other units didn't even know it existed.

So much so that until the 60s, most Soviet engineers in the field of applied engineering were still lying there using pencils to calculate complex engineering data.

Without widespread market applications, how can it be possible to promote technological development?

Who is this kind of self-preserving "secrecy" being kept secret from?

It must not have been kept secret from the United States. Could it be that the secret is so backward?

The Soviet-style "defense-specific" policy has greatly hindered the development of electronic computing, and the consequences are well known.

So what if we catch up later?

One step late, one step late.

I got up early and rushed to the late market.

With lessons learned from the past, how could Li Yian make the same mistake?

"The hydropower station we are building now requires a lot of data calculations. The hydropower company definitely needs it, and the same goes for other companies. The uses of computers are very wide, and we just need to explore it. If... "

Looking at Chu Ze, Li Yian smiled.

"If Mr. Chu Ze is willing, I can be an investor and invest in your company."

In fact, Li Nian has been an investor for a long time, but in the name of Nanyang University. The university can always benefit from experimental research. For example, Nanyang University can share 5% of the patent money for streptomycin. This is because the early research was Reasons for corporate funding.

"It's my pleasure, sir."

In fact, Chuze is not only an excellent engineer, he is also good at business. In another world, the Chuze Electronic Computer Company he founded once developed into a company with thousands of employees and sold nearly 300 computers of various types. Until later the company was acquired by Siemens.

Soon Chu Ze Electronic Computer Company was established. While multiple engineering departments were purchasing computers, Nanyang University also established its own electronic computer project team. As for Yongning University, it directly established Cross Star Electronic Computer Company.

What is a tuyere?

For Nanyang in 48, electronic computers seemed to be the hot spot. Before new computers were built, many engineers in the engineering field even lined up to calculate engineering data at Taiping University, and Chu Ze invented this programmable computer. Binary electronic computers have left a deep impression on everyone due to their simplicity of programming, powerful arithmetic unit with exception handling capabilities, and wide application in the field of engineering. So much so that engineers in the engineering community are all scrambling to use this most advanced human science to get rid of the most tedious and time-consuming mathematical calculations in the engineering field. At the beginning, this seemed to be the most important application of electronic computers. field, but this is just a seeming thing. Thanks to the powerful and programmable features of Z5 computing, researchers soon began to study the application of electronic computers in other fields.

The application of electronic computers continued to expand through such continuous attempts, and eventually changed human life bit by bit.

The miraculous Z5 electronic calculator also attracted the attention of the outside world to the epoch-making electronic component "transistor". At almost the same time, the new three-layer structure transistor model proposed by Li Yi'an naturally attracted attention from the outside world. After all, this was a transistor model proposed by a king, and even the word "transistor" was He proposed it.

However, although the theory has been proposed and a patent has been applied for, the biggest problem is that no one can make it. Just like the dilemma faced by Shockley in history, Li Yian's "invention" is also considered It is unrealistic and impractical. Some people in the European and American scientific circles even use the term "the king's whim" to describe the new transistor with a three-layer structure.

In short, no one believed that a king could be a physicist and could develop a new transistor structure in such a short time. People were still obsessed with the advantages shown by point-contact transistors.

It has to be said that sometimes, people have a deep-rooted impression of nobles, and even in their eyes, nobles are fine for eating, drinking and having fun, but as for achieving achievements in other scientific fields, it is simply wishful thinking.

Not only that, some people even regarded this as a joke. Perhaps in Nanyang, no one would regard this as a joke, but in Europe and the United States, some scientists regarded this as a joke. On this day, Yuan Jialiu returned home angrily. As soon as he got home, his wife noticed that he seemed very angry, before she asked.

"discriminate!"

Yuan Jialiu shouted loudly.

"They discriminate against us Chinese to the core! Taiping University invented the transistor, and Nanyang University, a German, manufactured the transistor computer. That is natural, because it was still managed by Germans, but... Zhiyuan, his research results have been used in many In people’s eyes, it’s just the “Emperor’s Game”, a deception because there’s no way to realize it…”

Looking at her husband's angry look, Wu Jianxiong asked.

"Are you fighting for Zhiyuan?"

Yuan Jialiu nodded and said.

"They don't know at all that Zhiyuan is very accomplished in physics. He..."

After a pause, Yuan Jialiu said.

"If he were willing to do physics research, he might even win a Nobel Prize."

Wu Jianxiong fully agrees with her husband's admiration for Li Yi'an. During her injury, she and Li Yi'an once discussed physics problems. Li Yi'an once put forward some very innovative ideas. Indeed, as Yuan Jialiu said, if he is willing to continue to study in depth If you continue, you will definitely win the Nobel Prize.

It's a pity that as a king and president, he has been tied up in tedious affairs most of the time. In fact, this is also the case in the United States. If a physicist becomes the director of a college or research institute, then scientific research results will plummet.

"so what?"

Wu Jianxiong asked, looking at his aggrieved husband.

"I……"

Looking up at his wife, Yuan Jialiu said seriously.

"I, I want to go to Nanyang, what do you think?"

Looking at the expectant Yuan Jialiu, Wu Jianxiong answered very readily.

"Okay, you have already decided, let's go to Nanyang."

(End of this chapter)