According to news from the Railway Bureau, Xincheng Heavy Industry, after more than a month of hard work, decided to take the lead in producing a 200-horsepower locomotive.
Wang Qi was not disappointed. With two hundred horsepower, it was still decades more powerful than the steam locomotive in his previous life.
Even the calculation of years is not accurate. It took more than 20 years to go from a pure boiler to a horizontal fire tube boiler, because Wang Qi was referring to mature models in museums and locomotives that are still running in the information age. Their heat utilization and transmission The efficiency is not comparable to that of earlier models.
Now that the heavy factory chooses to design a 200-horsepower model by referring to the drawings, it can only be said that Wang Qi's own internal skills are insufficient. If he can draw a complete set of drawings of a steam locomotive, even if there are some defects in manufacturing capabilities, as long as there are enough reference parts, he can at least make it A guy with five to six hundred horsepower.
In addition to the smooth preparations for the first steam locomotive, there have been several great events in the past month, which even overshadowed the anxiety caused by the emergence of a third-party battle in the north.
These several great events were connected together. The thermal steam generator officially produced electricity in Fenggu, and Fenggu Nonferrous Metals, which had already made preparations for the work, quickly produced a small amount of chromium through electrolysis.
The iron factory didn't delay at all and produced stainless steel on the spot!
The iron factory itself naturally has no superpowers, but isn't there Wang Qi? As an architect, he knows all about the various materials used in construction. It is no problem to remember the general ratio of dozens of materials. I took it. He wrote down Solaris' mission on paper on the spot to prevent forgetting.
The stainless steel produced this time is a very common iron-chromium-nickel alloy with a chromium content of 20%. By controlling the carbon content, it can be divided into several models. The medium hardness can be used to make pots and cups, and the low hardness can be used to make light elastic sheets. The taller ones can be used as kitchen knives.
Producing stainless steel is actually easier than producing high-purity chromium. A certain degree of composition fluctuation will not affect the change in the properties of "stainless". If you add chromium to 30% and add some manganese, its basic properties will still be stainless steel. There will be differences in strength, corrosion resistance, etc.
Now the iron factory has assembled carbon steel, stainless steel, and tungsten steel. As Fenggu Nonferrous Metals has the ability to electrolytic processing, manganese steel will also be solved soon. The only thing left is titanium steel to summon the dragon (not
Judging from the information already available, except for some oxide components related to magic power, the composition is unknown. From the distribution of known minerals and the price analysis of Blackwater City, the overall development of the universe in the different world is not very different. There is a 99.99% certainty that the development of stars will still be hydrogen, helium, Carbon, iron, and iron are undoubtedly the top ten most abundant substances in the universe. It is not ranked fourth because after carbon, there are elements that are less likely to fuse in a stellar environment, such as oxygen, silicon, and nitrogen. They can be considered to be products of the carbon fusion process or by-products of stellar explosions generated from carbon. Iron is only a fusion product. At the end, excessive accumulation of iron inside the star will cause decompression and explosion.
Aluminum alloys, copper alloys, etc. are of course also very good, but compared with iron, which is the easiest to obtain on terrestrial planets, it is difficult to reach the equivalent of a billion-ton production capacity, and the scope of application will naturally be limited.
So mastering ferroalloy has pinched the heart of industry.
With enough types of ferroalloys available, industry is no longer limited to building things of common sizes.
The smaller the magic product, the more difficult it is to make. In the industry, regardless of the microelectronics that rely on optics, the larger the mechanical product, the more difficult it is.
For example, if we need a marine propeller with a diameter of 20 meters, who can pronounce the name of a manufacturer that can make it well?
The answer is, no. The world in Wang Qi's previous life could only create a maximum diameter of 12 meters when he traveled through it.
Of course, if you insist on a fight, it can be said that demand determines it.
However, this is not the case. In addition to the power source, the size of the propeller is also determined by the draft. Can humans not build an ocean liner with a draft of more than ten meters at the propeller position? Doesn't an ocean-going cargo ship have to enter a shallow water port if it has to be placed in a deep-water port? Is it very costly to clear a few berth channels for a few super cargo ships that can reduce transportation costs?
The demand definitely exists, but it cannot be created.
The larger the workpiece, the greater the impact of vibration on the processing. Let's take a propeller as an example. The finished product of a 12-meter-diameter copper-manganese alloy propeller weighs 480 tons, and the basic material input will be heavier.
A lump of more than 500 tons will have unpredictable consequences if it moves on the workpiece table. Even if it just spins, dozens of workers will be busy for a long time to confirm that its position is suitable for rotation.
Although in the information age, nanometers are often used as scale units, when it comes to very large workpieces, millimeters are still used, and the installation accuracy is often centimeter level.
Wang Qi wanted to use the power of magic from another world to create something more shocking, such as directly launching a small town into the orbit of the planet.
Regardless of whether you can do it in this life, the first step is to master several core steel series of iron, and then use rare earth elements and sintering and quenching processes to steadily improve the performance of steel, just in case one day suddenly a certain kind of steel is particularly suitable Being manipulated by magic is also impossible to say.
However, the situation in the north is becoming more and more abnormal, which may slow down the overall pace of development and affect the plan to create a spectacle that will attract the will of the world to take a look.
The Blade Legion dispersed again after returning to camp to rest, with one regiment still responsible for surveillance work in the north.
The updated weapons are of little help for mobile warfare. This round of surveillance work is mainly based on peripheral observation. If the demons appear in clusters heading south, they must choose a place to fight or return to the pass to defend based on the situation at the time.
After leaving the lava lake for some distance, the density of little devils flying around was reduced a lot. The surveillance scale was based on platoon units, which greatly reduced the risk and effectively controlled casualties.
Affected by the volcanic ash in the lava lake area, it is difficult to see much from a distance. The main target of surveillance is still the condition of the little devil.
Mark out a piece of land and observe the number and frequency of little devils flying into the surveillance area every day to determine whether the situation in the lava lake area has changed.
While conducting surveillance missions, the group also had to complete the testing of anti-magic devices and anti-aircraft cannons.
The anti-magic device is of no use to a species like the little devil who only knows one spell in his life. It basically cannot restrain the release of spells, and there is a certain chance that the fireball will disintegrate in advance.
Since the anti-magic device is a wooden box, emergency mobilization is afraid of it breaking. As a result, the deployment point often misses testing opportunities. The specific rules of the disintegration of fireballs are not yet understood. We can only roughly calculate that the fireball disintegrates about two seconds after entering the anti-magic range. The probability increases with time.
The problem is that the effective range of the anti-magic device is a small-angle cone area. When the scale of the battle expands and the target surface increases, it is difficult for the fireball trajectory to fly within it for two seconds. And now there is no condition to deploy a large number of anti-magic devices together for testing. .
Compared to this thing, anti-aircraft cannons are more reliable.
When using anti-aircraft cannons to fire aircraft, you need to consider the lead time and the aircraft's response maneuver trajectory. Fighting the little devil is different. It doesn't fly that fast and has a stronger ability to change direction, but it happens to fall into the dense ammunition area of the cannon.
Specifically, aim a little in front of the little devil, and basically don't do anything. When there is a certain distance, the natural deviation of the ballistic trajectory can cover its dodge range. No matter which direction it dodges, it will hit the bullet, and it will only matter a few seconds sooner or later.
The monitoring and testing work had only been carried out for half a month when the little devils began to behave abnormally. The number of little devils at the monitoring points occupied by each battalion dropped sharply for two days in a row.
The leader of the first regiment made a prompt decision and directly sent the first battalion to go out for reconnaissance, and found that someone was actually fighting with the demons in the lava lake area.
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