After all, this is still the nascent era of human research on electricity. Although the technical ideas are available, they are not perfect. The artificial sun only lit up for ten minutes and then went out with a pop.
"There's no other way. It's burned. The temperature of this kind of lamp is too high... It's still made of carbon rods. It will burn out if it lasts for a long time. Until a new heat dissipation method is found or new materials are used to replace it, it can only be used temporarily. Use it..."
"Fortunately, carbon rods are easy to make and cheap, and can be replaced at any time, so we can ensure communication time of about ten minutes each time at night..."
"Using this special arc lamp to flash light signals can transmit information over the longest distance. Even in the biggest storm, I can still light up a sun, although it only lasts ten minutes..."
Xiao Letian hugged Tesla's shoulders and said excitedly, "Ten minutes is enough, ten minutes is also good! This product does have flaws, but I thought about it carefully and these are all flaws for civilian use!"
"If the first batch of products are purely military supplies, then the commercial value will be highlighted, and people will not care so much during a war!"
"If our warships can be equipped with several sets of arc lamps and mechanically powered generators, then the late-night communication and lighting problems will be solved!"
"In the era before radio, the only way to communicate in the middle of the night was with lights... and heat. It's nothing. It's definitely not suitable for ordinary people's daily life. But what a soldier wants in a war is victory, so he can endure a little pain and a little heat. !”
Hiss... As he was talking, Jin Sanshun got a big blister on his finger over there. The iron shell that had just been removed had to be over 100 degrees hot, and Fatty Jin was still poking it up stupidly.
Tesla's eyes lit up again, "That's right! Why didn't I think of that? I can produce the first and second generation products first, purely for military use!"
"When fighting in the middle of the night, ten minutes of strong light illumination may be able to crush a sneak attack! I went back and changed the light electrodes to be interchangeable, which can also ensure that the light continues to illuminate..."
"That's right... but for long-term considerations, we still need to change the material, to a metal material that can be used for a long time. I don't understand this, and I will leave it to you in the future!"
Xiao Letian is never arrogant. He is very clear about the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese scientific research. The core technology of the second industrial revolution is the internal combustion engine and electricity, including the upgrading of chemistry.
After all, the internal combustion engine is a mechanical body that people can see and touch. People can still come up with concepts based on their understanding at the time, so as long as you are willing to invest money, there will always be a breakthrough over time.
But electromagnetism is really a fantasy technology in this era. Because electromagnetism is invisible, it is difficult for people to have a concept.
This is not the 21st century. People have already conducted in-depth research on electromagnetism, and there are many simple and easy-to-understand experiments. Children in middle school and high school can understand it.
In fact, even in the 21st century, not everyone can learn electromagnetics.
By analogy, when people in the 19th century faced electromagnetism, it was almost as obscure and difficult to understand as when people in the 21st century faced quantum physics!
Especially in areas in Asia where basic science is weak, the proportion of scientific research population is still small, everything is in the early stage, and breakthroughs in the mechanical field can be made by relying on manpower and money.
And this kind of fantasy technology that is difficult to form a concept can only be broken through by genius!
Therefore, Xiao Letian's plan is very clear for electromagnetics, which is to dig out talents in Europe at all costs, especially those regions in Europe with backward national power.
For example, Serbia's Teslas were annexed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire due to their weak country, but they still have national independence. They have dignity, painful memories of oppression, deep insecurity, and outright poverty.
In many rural areas, it is even necessary to rely on manpower as cattle and horses to plow the fields, and what women use is no different from the animals.
Such a weak nation and country cannot support highly skilled talents. They can only immigrate to powerful countries and earn some money while being oppressed.
The real history of Tesla is this. After immigrating to the United States, he joined Edison's team, but was exploited by Edison.
Edison asked him to complete an important technological breakthrough in electromagnetic components and promised to give him a reward of US$50,000 upon completion!
Tesla completed the task perfectly, but when he asked for money, Edison mockingly said, "This is just an American joke!"
Just this sentence extinguished Tesla's enthusiasm, and he was forced to leave Edison's company and start his own independent business!
But Tesla was an outsider after all and could not enter the large American chaebol group. He could never be accepted as one of his own. Tesla spent his later years under the surveillance of American intelligence agents. After his death, all Tesla's manuscripts It was also confiscated.
These precious information are classified as permanent top secrets by the U.S. intelligence agencies and will never be made public!
Why is this happening? Because these elites from small and weak European nations are just batteries in the eyes of powerful people such as the United States and the United Kingdom, draining all their energy without allowing even a tiny bit of scientific research results to leak out.
If I drain you dry and then 'imprison' you, you will become nothing more than a tool!
Xiao Letian knew the faces of these shameless capitalists and powerful people, so he did the opposite and built a golden platform to sincerely invite the world's talents!
Discover talents in advance. As long as you give them enough money, dignity, and respect for their own national beliefs, these people will definitely come.
Don't be afraid of not knowing the goods, just be afraid of comparing goods. People always need to know what is good and what is bad!
These poached talents are key breakthrough figures in the Chinese electromagnetic and chemical industries. Tesla is the most important one and deserves to be welcomed personally by the head of state.
All efforts have results. Genius is genius. As long as enough resources are given, arc lamps can be transformed on the island of Mauritius.
According to this progress, radio technology is also a layer of window paper!
I really found a treasure, I really dug up a treasure!
"Everyone listens to the order and fully cooperates with Mr. Nicholas Tesla to transform the arc lamp communication lighting system for our battleship!"
"Abandon the past route, choose a new route, cross the Indian Ocean... Our goal is to go straight to Banda Aceh!"
The wheel of historical change is getting faster and faster. Xiao Letian is like a catalyst scattered in the world. Technology is constantly making breakthroughs, geopolitics has undergone tremendous changes, and the original balance has been broken!
On May 1st, when the head of state was on his way back, dense gunfire suddenly rang out late at night along the Yongding River south of the capital!
Emperor Guangxu's general offensive actually started on this day!
