Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1093 Spring of Science ([-])

The Argentine Lakeside in early March has entered the early autumn season, but fortunately, it is not too cold.

Pan Yan, Pan Yin and his son are sitting in a simple shed woven of reeds, teaching a group of students.These students are all from the High School Affiliated to the Academy of Engineering Technology—an institution that was recently split from the Academy of Natural Sciences. It has also set up a high school that recruits students from all over the country to cultivate suitable talents—the course is taught by Pan Yan at this time , his son Pan Yin demonstrated that the course content is mainly some basic electrical knowledge.

Considering that electricity has not been effectively carried out in Europe at this time (Europeans have not even recognized "electricity"), in order to prevent leaks, approved by the Executive Committee, the Academy of Natural Sciences will preside over some talents who conduct electrical research, The students were spun off as a whole, and together with some other institutions that research machine tools and steam engines, merged into the Engineering Technology Research Institute, and moved the institute to Tieling County, an important town in the northwest.As part of the Academy of Engineering, due to its extreme importance, the Institute of Electricity was ordered by the executive committee to move to the Argentine lakeside in southern Patagonia far away from the mainland—the specific address is near the small town of El Calafate on the south bank of the Lake of Later Generations , very desolate, it can be seen that Pan's father and son are willing to come to work here and also made a lot of sacrifices.

Pan Yan and his son and a group of students are also the first batch of residents of this new settlement. For a long time to come, they will squat here to teach and learn various electrical knowledge (of course it is very simple) , and continue to do some basic electrical experiments to accumulate the foundation for future development.

At this time, the old man Pan Yanpan, whose hair was already a little gray, was explaining the principle of electromagnetic induction to the students, while Pan Yinze, with the help of several older students, fiddled with some things such as lead-acid batteries, natural magnets, and electrified coils. , copper (silver) wires, measuring meters and the like for students to watch.

"The senior students may have seen it before, so you can continue to do your homework." Pan Yan raised his eyes and said with a serious face: "Students in the lower grades should carefully observe how electricity and magnetism transform into each other. , Electricity can generate magnetism, and magnetism can also be used to generate electricity. See if you use a coil to cut the magnetic induction line to generate current. Look at the ammeter in your brother's hand. Is the pointer moving? This means that a current is generated. , which also shows that magnetism can indeed generate electricity!"

The ammeter handmade by the Institute of Electricity looks quite primitive and simple, and the accuracy of the pointer scale is also very doubtful. It can only be seen that the pointer is shaking. Give an approximate value.What?Do you want to be more precise?To be honest, I don’t know either, it’s enough to be roughly accurate, and the requirements are not so high now.

There are about fifteen or sixteen students in the class at this time, and they are basically freshmen in high school; while the so-called "senior students" (mainly sophomores in high school) who are doing their homework are hard at work. Reform, but high school is still only two years old, and the system of mentoring and mentoring is implemented, that is, division of subjects begins in the first year of high school, and the best of the sophomore students will also teach some simple knowledge to the first year students. A teacher only guides a small number of students to ensure that the teaching Quality), there are probably eleven or two people, and there are about thirty people in total, which is the essence of the East Coast Republic of China at this time. Hired workers for battery electrolytes and electrodes, but they do not have much theoretical knowledge and cannot be counted as researchers.

Thanks to the "Science Spring" plan, the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Academy of Engineering has recently received a large amount of special research and development funds, the amount is about 5 yuan per year. It has reached 8 to [-] yuan, which is quite sufficient.Moreover, the evaluation team of the "Science Spring" program also separately promised that if the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Academy of Engineering thinks it is necessary, it can also make a separate report requesting additional special funds, and the evaluation team will decide whether to approve it after a special review.

The research and development funds have increased several times, and the Institute of Electrical Sciences has suddenly expanded.Although they were ordered to move to the inaccessible Xuefeng Lake (that is, Argentine Lake, named after the snow peaks surrounded by the lake), this is not a big problem-the Pan family, father and son, and other four teachers who have traveled through the world are naturally represented. With the special benefit compensation, the students are also very excited because they can learn such "mysterious" and high-level knowledge, so none of them have any complaints, and they start studying and researching at the beautiful lakeside with peace of mind.Even, a few days ago, another teacher who was in charge of outreach was sent back to the mainland by old man Pan. The purpose was to go to the junior high schools in various counties to investigate thoroughly, and then recruit some potential students to study here at Xuefeng Lake. Now that everyone has money, it is time to cultivate more talents.

Of course, according to the rules set by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, once a newly recruited student agrees to join the Institute of Electricity, the whole family must move to this hidden place named "Xuefeng Township" to settle down - the children study and do research every day, and the family will Farming and grazing nearby are used to maintain part of the consumption of this small settlement. At present, more than [-] family members of more than [-] students and teachers have initially settled down here.

In addition to them, there are many Ministry of Internal Affairs police in the settlements, and their number is no less than a hundred.These well-selected and heavily armed police supervise a group of more than a thousand Araucan laborers (conscripted from the Kingdom of Araucania), and are trying to build some facilities such as residences and factories. At the same time, there are mules in the south. When the horse team delivered supplies, they also had to act as porters, which was very difficult anyway.

After Mr. Pan finished his lecture today, he signaled the students to rest for 15 minutes, and then went to drink tea in the next room.After they left, some students gathered around the instrument that was demonstrated just now, chattering about it.This is a simple hand-cranked generator with a simple structure. It is basically a magnet, a paint coil, a transmission device, etc. The coil is driven by the hand-cranked power to rotate and cut the magnetic induction line, and then generate electricity. It is basically not practical, purely It was made for the convenience of lectures—but in this time and space in the 17th century, this simple hand-cranked generator turned out to be of great significance in terms of its significance, because it represented the germination of the electrification revolution.

It's just a pity that the voltage generated by this hand-operated generator is still not as good as that of the chemical battery made by the people on the east coast. Continuous research and improvement, such as the "transformer" that everyone mentioned in the class, etc. - the current senior students already know how to wind the coil to change the output voltage of the generator.

While the students were discussing in front of the generator, the Pan family father and son were also chatting in the next room.Old man Pan was an electrician before time travel. He was only 25 years old at the time. He is definitely a high-end talent. If Dong An wants to make achievements in electricity, he really can only rely on these two knives; as for his son Pan Yin, he is purely the second generation born in this time and space, and he can barely be regarded as It is "family origin", but it is nonsense to talk about talent or something. Currently, because the knowledge is much richer than the students, he is helping Old Man Pan. He is regarded as the "big brother" in the eyes of so many students in the first and second grades , and sometimes teach on behalf of old man Pan, the prestige is not small.

At this time, old man Pan took a sip of tea and said to his son: "After a while, after the old cow comes back from the mainland, we can start to make the next step. There are many things that can be improved in the existing hand-operated generators." Locally, we used to be limited to factors such as funds, materials, and the degree of emphasis. We mainly focused on cultivating technical personnel and making some simple batteries and electrical instruments. Now the funds are relatively sufficient, and some technical difficulties have been overcome in recent years. The higher authorities are increasingly aware of the importance of electricity. In this way, our opportunity will come—not only to train more talents, but also to develop more patents. Which of these patents belong to the institute and which ones Patents are what we can win by ourselves in the future, and we must distinguish them clearly. There are still some students, almost who can be left to the country. If you intend to work with us in the future, you should focus on starting a small one. After all, we will need help from others in the future. If we teach them well now, it will save us a lot of trouble in the future. Remember, it will be a matter of time before electricity replaces steam power. Electric motors have greater advantages than steam engines. It is only practical on a large scale. However, as long as we persevere and continue to research and invent, sooner or later the technology of electric motors will become more mature. In that way, we, who have seized the opportunity of the electrical industry one step ahead, have an advantage over other families who are behind the times. For me, I don’t know how old it is, work hard, son, the future is yours!”

"Father, I know..." Pan Yin nodded, and then asked treacherously: "But the matter of the motor is not in a hurry. We did some electrolysis experiments earlier and came up with a lot of very interesting things. Do we need to register a patent? If registered, most of these patents belong to the state, and we are at a loss."

"Don't stare at these petty profits. With the funds from the state, you still want to take all the benefits into your own hands? Is it possible?" Old man Pan put his cup on the table and raised his voice: "However, executive committee member The members of the meeting are not all unreasonable people. Asking your second brother to register a company in a subsidiary of the Southern Railway and give them the patents of some gadgets is probably within the tolerance of the Executive Committee. After all, if you want to If you want the horse to run, you have to feed the horse. You have to understand the thoughts of Shangfeng, understand? You, there is still a lot to learn. Go to teach them now, and I will talk about the improvement of the generator, the rectification The role of the child, um, go."

(End of this chapter)