The nuclear industry is a symbol of national misfortune and troubled times, but it is also an important weapon for small and weak countries to break down technological barriers and seize their own destiny.
San Jose's plan was to lay the foundation and start over with the development of the atomic bomb.
Starting from scratch in 1950, Argentina purchased and built research reactors and built infrastructure for nuclear energy technology.
At the same time, the Bilong government is committed to developing radiochemistry, metallurgical engineering and nuclear physics, and training nuclear technicians and physicists. Many nuclear technology experts have reached world-class levels.
However, Ronald Richter, a civilian scientist, slowly silenced Argentina's nuclear weapons program. He spent more than 100 million U.S. dollars, with almost no effect. Not only was there no hydrogen bomb, but the atomic bomb was not included in the research and development plan at all. It can be said that It's a castle in the air.
One of the very important reasons is that the pace is too big. Almost all countries develop atomic bombs first, and then hydrogen bombs. However, Argentina actually wants to do it all at once. Currently, there is only one hydrogen bomb detonation model in the world, commonly known as a big bomb with a small casing. The bomb, and Richter developed an electronic keyboard, and the large cartridge case and the small cartridge can be said to have an atomic bomb.
Countries such as the United States and the Soviet Union mainly use TU configuration hydrogen bombs, which can only be detonated by atomic bombs. Hydrogen bombs are a type of nuclear weapons and are second-generation nuclear weapons, also known as fusion bombs and thermonuclear bombs.
Since 1951, the United States and the Soviet Union have successively started hydrogen bomb tests. The United States detonated the first hydrogen bomb in 1951, but the technology was relatively primitive and the detonation yield was not large. The United States exploded in Eniwetok in 1952. The hydrogen bomb is still too big to be used in actual combat, because it is too big and troublesome to be dropped by bombers.
The Soviet Union is now putting hydrogen bombs into actual combat. Saint Hesse remembers that its first detonation yield was only 400,000 tons. Although it was much larger than the little boy, it was still a little small, because the Soviet hydrogen bombs were small enough to be carried by airplanes, so Can be used in actual combat.
Under pressure from the Soviets, the United States also began to manufacture hydrogen bombs that could be used in actual combat. To be honest, these two major countries were stimulated by Argentina's false news in 1951. Otherwise, these two superpowers would not have developed them so quickly. to develop a more powerful hydrogen bomb.
San Jose did not recruit many nuclear physics scientists in the United States, but only obtained some centrifuge equipment. Two of the most famous laboratories in the U.S. nuclear industry are the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago and Brooke on Long Island, New York. Haven National Laboratory.
In fact, the laboratories that developed the hydrogen bomb, Las Alamos Laboratory and the newly established Livermore National Laboratory, were too confidential, and guys like Guerrero had no way to spy on this information. .
Therefore, we can only save the country through curveballs. While recruiting young physicists in the United States, we are also preparing to look for opportunities in Canada.
Mature physicists are all registered with the U.S. Intelligence Agency. San Jose originally established a shell company called Enco Electric, with only one or two employees.
As a result, during the recruitment process, we found that we could not find suitable engineering personnel and were often regarded as a scam company. Moreover, people like Thain were in finance and were not familiar with the electrical industry and there were no suitable people.
Saint Jose had to personally take action and change this shell company into a real company. Fortunately, he now has enough money, and the electrical company can also sell electrical appliances and the like.
It is possible to get involved in the electrical, electronic and electrical industries, and the United States has enough talents and markets for development. In contrast, Argentina does not have much foundation.
Sanjesé also came into contact with Siemens and General Electric, and originally bought a canning production line produced by them.
The development of electronics and electrical appliances is also a familiar process, starting with the home appliance industry. The United States has no shortage of talents and equipment in this area.
First, the headquarters was set up in New York, and the company's name was changed to New York Enco Electric Company.
The first step is to find an office building to serve as the headquarters.
It was too luxurious to set up in Manhattan. In the end, Saint-Jesse found a large office building near Blackwater Company in Queens and rented a three-story pocket to serve as the headquarters.
Then we start recruiting people and advertising.
Soon Enco Electric's advertisements appeared in major newspapers in New York.
San Jose recruited managers with factory experience from four departments: production department, human resources department, finance department, and engineering department, and a small team was quickly formed.
Then San Jose plans to start producing some small appliances, which are cheap and require relatively low investment, and there must be ready-made production lines in the United States.
St. Jose quickly focused on the cassette tape recorder. This thing had not yet appeared, and in his opinion, the technology was easy. The tape recorder device had been invented for more than ten years, but there was no such lightweight and compact tape recorder yet. .
There are already seven or eight people in the engineering department of San Jose. It is not easy for them to develop a cassette tape and then build a recorder.
The head of the engineering department is Wolf Him, who is in his 50s and has worked for General Electric. Looking at his resume, he graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an unknown small private university, and he has quite a lot of experience.
"Wolf Him, please arrange for the engineering department's technical staff to hold a technical meeting in the conference room on the third floor at 10 o'clock."
St. Jose walked to Wolf's workstation and said something to the supervisor.
"Yes, boss."
Soon, a bunch of people gathered around Wolf. Everyone was a little curious. When they were recruiting, they were fooled by Enke Electric. But when they arrived, they found out that it was a new company that had been established for several months. .
If it hadn't been for St. Jose's excellent playing and the relatively competitive salary, these people would have left long ago.
"Xim, what do you think the boss will hold later?"
asked a technician named Ove. He came from Philadelphia Peco Electric Power Company and actually had no experience in developing electronics and electrical appliances.
"We'll find out later."
Wolf didn't pay too much attention. To be honest, he had been here for a few days and he didn't know what products Enke Electric planned to make. His bones were a little rusty.
Wolf used to be a workaholic, but at the end of last year General Electric laid off the entire department, and he could only lose his job. Enco Electric made him a supervisor and paid him a higher salary than all the companies he interviewed for, which made him cherish this job very much. Work.
"Everyone just works hard, don't worry."
The working environment in Enco is good. Although Queens is not as good as Manhattan, it is also where many people who work in Manhattan live, and it is very convenient to commute to get off work.
After a while, people from the engineering department sat in the conference room on the third floor.
"Hello everyone, everyone knows me. I am Tom Cruise, the boss of Enke Electric. I am calling you here to prepare for our next product."
St. Jose took out a plate of paper and asked the secretary to distribute it to others. Two things were drawn on it, a box of rectangular flakes and a large block object.
"This is our next goal. I call it a cassette tape. It is only 1/4 the size of the Federico loop cassette recorder on the market. Both sides of the tape are wrapped in a plastic shell to protect it to the greatest extent. data, each side can hold 30 to 45 minutes of stereo music."
As soon as Saint Jose spoke, everyone present was shocked. Can the tape be made so small?
"Boss, can this technology be realized?"
Wolf also had a tape radio at home, but it was bulky, huge, and expensive.
"Yes, it's completely achievable. I estimate that tape samples will be available in half a month."
"Today's purpose is very simple, which is to produce a smaller tape radio. You can experiment with the cassette tape according to the drawings and slowly make it. I have contacted 3M Company to custom-produce a plastic-based tape coated with brown magnetic iron oxide. , you are responsible for realizing the shell and the things inside."
Saint Jose designed the appearance of later tapes and recorders based on his memory. If these guys couldn't even do this, he would have to change a group of people.
"Boss, is this our first product?"
"Yes, I hope to see results within a month. We have already started preparing injection molding machine molds and production plants outside the street. You are responsible for connecting with the mold factory. I want the product to be debugged within 2 months and then put on the market. , and develop 4 looks simultaneously.”
"Yes, boss, we are using transistor design. Time is still tight, and we need to obtain authorization from Bell Labs? And you also need to develop a radio and a tape recorder, right?"
In 1950, the first "PN junction transistor" came out.
"Yes, there are two products in total, with the tape recorder as the main product and the radio as the auxiliary product. At the same time, we applied for a patent in the name of the company.
"Don't worry about patents. We have formal authorization, so you just need to be confident in your bold design."
The person who invented the transistor was a man named Shockley. In two years he would found Shockley Company, which indirectly promoted the birth of "Silicon Valley" in the United States.
Intel was born as a result of Fairchild Semiconductor. St. Jose never thought of investing in Shockley and Fairchild. Intel was good, but that was probably more than ten years later.
San Jose's goal is to establish an electrical company and then develop civilian nuclear industry technology, nuclear power generation, etc., and ultimately import the technology to Argentina.
"Okay boss."
"As long as this research and development project goes smoothly, I will give each participant a bonus based on their contribution. This time the bonus is a total of US$50,000."
Saint Jose intends to give them some head start and increase their desire to work. There is no other way but to give them money.
People in the engineering department were also excited. Such a wealthy company with high wages must keep doing it. Everyone was very motivated.
It can be said that semiconductor technology has just started. Products such as televisions and tape recorders have also begun to use transistor technology. Transistor radios have not yet been developed. If Saint Jose takes the lead, it needs to continue to expand the scale of the engineering department.
Transistor radios are the second generation of radios after tube radios.
Compared with electron tubes, transistors are small in size, light in weight, resistant to vibration, long in life, and consume less power. Radios can be made compact and have relatively stable performance.
This time, as long as the internal settings are done, there is nothing to worry about. By changing a few shells, you can get several more models, with prices ranging from low to high, and various styles of tape drive equipment.
With the first product in hand, San Jose has already purchased the factory building, cooperated with General Electric, debugged the production equipment, and the materials for the engineering plastic shell are all readily available.
Mainly available in two shell colors: silver and black, the design is also tougher.
In the era before rock and roll, it was mainly for family customers, taking into account most of the customers and groups of people.
"In the era without integrated circuits, we could only engage in these backward technologies."
I don’t know when integrated circuit technology was invented. That was when the real greatness of the third industrial revolution came. A small circuit board,
Of course, with transistors, integrated circuits are not far away, so St. Jose will start a small business first.
A tape recorder was enough to keep him busy, so St. Jose named the engineering department a tape recorder research and development team.
St. Hesse is not idle either. In order to speed up research and development, it continues to recruit engineering personnel and continuously expands the engineering department. The engineering department is divided into radio group, internal design group, debugging group, docking production group and other departments.
To carry out division of labor and cooperation, speed up research and development, Saint-Jesse is also spending a lot of money to invest.
While the tape recorder project was advancing, Saint-Jessa immediately formed a television project team to engage in television research and development.
The number of people in the engineering department quickly increased to 60 people. Fortunately, Wolf did have some management skills, and the bonus of the engineering department was also increased to 200,000 US dollars by St. Hesse.
Most of the newly recruited personnel have rich R&D experience. Saint-Jesse gave his own idea of developing black and white TVs first, and then white TVs.
Purchase a bunch of TV sets on the market and conduct reverse research and development and optimization work.
This is actually the thinking of Japanese companies, which only make improvements but not initial research and development.
…
A private research institute specializes in gas diffusion methods. As for hydrogen bombs, it depends on God's will.
At the current level of the Argentinians, it is impossible to develop a hydrogen bomb with a TU structure, and the only structure in the world that can compete with it is New China, and Argentina is not yet so powerful.
Food has to be eaten one bite at a time, and the road can only be taken step by step. Saint Hesse's small goal is to establish several nuclear physics research institutes, starting with uranium extraction.
Argentina is not short of hydrogen bomb raw materials. The Potassium Triangle Plateau has the world's largest lithium resources. Saint Jose can then slowly get involved in the thermonuclear fusion industry by developing the lithium industry. In fact, this can only be said to be left to fate.
Argentina can have atomic bombs, but things like hydrogen bombs are basically premeditated, unless Argentina has the strength of the five gangsters.
It is enough to develop bombers and missiles. Hydrogen bombs are not something that Saint Jose should consider.
…
The following is a waste article, I will refresh it later.
People in the engineering department were also excited. Such a wealthy company with high wages must keep doing it. Everyone was very motivated.
It can be said that semiconductor technology has just started. Products such as televisions and tape recorders have also begun to use transistor technology. Transistor radios have not yet been developed. If Saint Jose takes the lead, it needs to continue to expand the scale of the engineering department.
Transistor radios are the second generation of radios after tube radios.
Compared with electron tubes, transistors are small in size, light in weight, resistant to vibration, long in life, and consume less power. Radios can be made compact and have relatively stable performance.
steal fragrance
