"Who was the first European scientist to propose the theory of the internal combustion engine? Who among you knows?"
Xiao Letian's question caused people around him to shake their heads. It seems that the scientific research foundation of the Chinese people is still weak. At present, they can only fish in the application stage. Once it reaches the theoretical stage, they do not even know the most basic scientific research history.
The head of state sighed secretly in his heart, but he couldn't show it yet. After all, the Chinese clan had only been established for a few years? It is impossible to expect to eat a fat man in one bite and have a few great scientists in the theoretical field emerge!
It is not easy to train such a group of engineers who can understand what he means and can conduct experiments and processing.
"Ahem..." Xiao Letian coughed twice, and Huang Wanxia beside her quickly brought the head of state a cup of herbal tea.
After taking a sip of herbal tea, Xiao Letian held the white porcelain teacup and said calmly, "Actually, the concept of the internal combustion engine was proposed by the Dutchman Huygens. He was a great man!"
"The Dutchman Huygens was a famous physicist, astronomer, and mathematician in the 17th century... This man suddenly had an inspiration while studying a new type of artillery!"
"You said that this gun can be so powerful after burning, push the cannonball to fly so far, and have such high lethality... How about this power pushing the machine to do work?"
"He will do it if he thinks of it. The cylinder of the internal combustion engine we are working on now... is actually the barrel of the gun in Huygens' eyes!"
"If you convert the cannonball into the current piston, think about it carefully and see if this makes sense!"
"It's nothing more than the cannonball flying out and not coming back, and the piston flying out will be pushed back by the crankshaft... It keeps going back and forth, and it keeps doing work!"
"Huygens' experiment was actually half successful. He did create a prototype of an internal combustion engine that relied on ** to push the piston to move, but it was not practical!"
"If the barrel is too long, the stroke will be too long and the thermal efficiency will be too low... The most important thing is that the gun must be loaded manually every time. There is no machine that can load the gun quickly!"
"This cannot guarantee that the internal combustion engine will provide sustained and rapid power output!"
"Of course, this thing is too dangerous, and the thermal energy reserve is relatively low, which is also the bottleneck that makes it impractical!"
"It was precisely because of many shortcomings that Huygens gave up on continuing research on the internal combustion engine, and only left behind a pile of data and drawings!"
"Many scientists have done research in the later period, but the unified point of view is that it is not feasible to use ** to provide internal combustion engine power!"
"That's when the French chemist Philippe Leben used gas as fuel to conduct research on internal combustion engines... and he succeeded!"
"In 1801, this Frenchman successfully used coal gas and hydrogen to develop a practical two-stroke internal combustion engine, and later this machine was successfully installed on a modified carriage frame!"
"There is nothing wrong with cars! The technological breakthroughs you are making now will give birth to a brand new industry in the future, and that is the automobile industry!"
"It's a bit far to say this. The French's success did not last long, and the Germans caught up from behind... Only after Philippe Leben did the German Otto's four-stroke engine research come about!"
"That is, the No. 0 machine you are building now, its theoretical basis comes from the research of the German Otto!"
"Because our Chinese ethnic group has a very close relationship with Prussia, our technological spies went very smoothly in searching for information, and even came into contact with Otto himself!"
"Otto himself now lives in Frankfurt. I once sent someone to see him, hoping to invite him to work in the Chinese... Unfortunately, he couldn't bear to leave his wife and children, so he rejected my letter of employment!"
"But before leaving, our technical spy had become very familiar with his family, and finally purchased all the patent rights for the Otto engine at the ultra-low price of 20,000 gold marks!"
Xiao Letian stroked the large No. 0 machine in front of him and said earnestly, "I can use money and strategy to allow my Chinese family to approach our competitors infinitely!"
"I can even bring us to a point where we are on the same starting line as Europe in a certain technology... This is the case with the internal combustion engine. Our technical spies who are densely located in Europe are taking the taxes paid by the Chinese people and poaching them for everyone. New technology!”
"And we Chinese engineers have to strive even more! The starting line has been put together, can't we still surpass the big nose of Europe?"
"Before, we were lagging behind. It doesn't matter. Now I have equalized the starting line. Engineers in Europe are also working on gas-fired internal combustion engines. Why do you have to learn from them?"
“Can’t you be a little innovative, produce a completely different internal combustion engine, and then completely surpass it?”
"Yuan Chao, Niemon... and your entire team! From today on, you have to emancipate your minds, and you can't always follow the Europeans' technological framework!"
Those words made the members of the Zero Unit team blush, and even the senior military officials who visited with the head of state were a little embarrassed.
The atmosphere in the workshop suddenly became awkward!
Xiao Letian walked back and forth three times along the No. 0 machine in front of him, looking around, "You still don't understand what I'm talking about? Hey...have you forgotten what I said when I first entered the workshop?"
"I said your steam engines don't burn coal, they all burn oil. What a luxury!"
"Why would I say such a thing? I've already figured out the meaning of the question, aren't you still enlightened?"
Hiss... Yuan Chao took a breath of air, "What the head of state means is that the real fuel for internal combustion engines is the light fuel that we burn as waste?"
"Gasoline? Are you saying that gasoline is the most suitable fuel for internal combustion engines in the future?"
Niemon shook his head, "That's not right... We have tested gasoline, diesel, kerosene, natural gas, and gas. Only natural gas and gas can ignite! Others will not work..."
Hahaha... Xiao Letian suddenly laughed, "Why do you always focus on the word 'combustion'? I just said that Mr. Huygens, the proposer of the internal combustion engine theory, only got it by studying the explosion of ** Inspiration!"
"Don't you understand? Don't you understand..." Xiao Letian simply took a sip of herbal tea, but did not swallow it.
He suddenly raised his head with herbal tea in his mouth!
Poof...a mist of water sprayed out!
Xiao Letian sprayed a mouthful of herbal tea into the air, and the water mist fell on Niemon and Yuan Chao!
ah! Niemon suddenly yelled, like a Buddhist warning, and the dead end in his mind was suddenly opened!
"I understand...I understand...it's an explosion...it's an explosion!"
"Don't burn it directly with gasoline... The first thing the president wants is to explode the gasoline!"
Yuan Chao also jumped up excitedly, "That's right... atomize the gasoline and then spray it into the cylinder... to create an explosion! What we want is the power of the explosion!"
"Oh my... why is my mind so messed up? I'm just thinking about natural gas and coal gas... we can find a way to turn the liquid into a gas!"
