Zhu Zhongliang and Zhu Jingyuan looked at the uranium ore samples and then went to the chemical workshop to see the production line.
Finally, we came to the warehouse and took a look at the uranium yellow cake that had been produced.
The yellow cake factory has completed a production line that can continuously refine ore and produce uranium yellow cake.
However, the production speed remains at a low level for the time being, mainly because the subsequent factories are still under construction.
The most advanced uranium enrichment processing technology has not yet completed all the overall technical research.
At present, the small amount of uranium yellow cake that the factory continues to produce is mainly used for laboratory research on uranium tetrafluoride and uranium hexafluoride.
So they visited the uranium yellow cake factory that afternoon, and the two went to the uranium tetrafluoride and uranium hexafluoride laboratories the next day.
On the third day, I went to the laboratory of filter membranes and centrifuges.
From front to back, the nature of engineering construction is getting lower and lower, and the nature of theoretical research is getting stronger and stronger.
Zhu Jingyuan only gave directions and only knew the directions and basic principles. The actual application required craftsmen to do it themselves.
In addition to the original basic concepts and principles, all Zhu Jingyuan can continue to give is full support.
But for researchers, this is enough.
If you have ideas, you won't make mistakes in the direction, and you won't draw water from a bamboo basket and get nothing.
With comprehensive support from the financial, material, personnel and political levels, we will not be weighed down by various practical problems.
Researchers only need to focus on research and do not need to create gimmicks to attract attention and investment.
This allows them to truly concentrate on their research.
After leaving the centrifuge laboratory, Zhu Jingyuan and his grandson went to another equally important laboratory.
Binary Tube Computer Laboratory.
Computer research started earlier, and Zhu Jingyuan understood more in-depth information and provided more guidance.
Therefore, the progress of Ming-related research is also faster.
Now the laboratory has built the first small-scale electronic computer verification machine.
Zhu Jingyuan stood in the middle of the hall, looking at the eight groups of large cabinets of this verification machine, and was filled with emotion.
On the front cover of the middle cabinet, there is a huge seal character "道" written on it.
The name of this computer is "Tao".
Using its own traditional cultural symbols to name its new research and development achievements is a natural choice for a country with a core traditional ethnic group.
The key is that Ming craftsmen saw that the binary design naturally corresponded to the yin and yang of Tai Chi in traditional culture.
Then in terms of design and planning, it is natural to move closer to the numbers of Tai Chi Yin Yang Bagua.
The eight trigrams are combined to produce sixty-four hexagrams, and the sixty-four hexagrams are combined two by two, and the result is four thousand and ninety-six.
Therefore, "Tao" uses 4,096 electron tubes and can perform 1,024 operations per second.
Compared with the computers of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life and later generations, this computing power looks extremely bleak.
But it is the world's first electronic computer and the first binary general-purpose electronic computer.
Has a controller, arithmetic unit, memory, input and output devices, and can be programmed.
On it, the craftsmen of Ming Dynasty have completed the verification of technical principles and crossed the process of starting from scratch.
What is currently being done is to standardize the technology verified on it and then build larger-scale computers.
Moreover, as the world's first electronic computer, it is actually many times more powerful than Zhu Jingyuan's first electronic computer ABC in his previous life.
It is also many times more powerful than the first computer in China.
The craftsman in charge of the computer was telling Zhu Jingyuan and Zhu Zhongliang about the capabilities of this computer.
It can be used in scientific calculations, ballistic calculations, and various calculation projects.
A calculation project that originally took dozens of minutes to complete only takes dozens of seconds with an electronic computer, and the time is shortened dozens of times.
The effect of speed improvement is not only the speed itself, but more importantly, the acceleration of the entire scientific research system it can drive.
The laboratory is currently designing and building a larger-scale computer, preparing to use 32,768 electron tubes, striving to increase the calculation speed to more than 8,192 times per second.
Zhu Zhongliang nodded frequently while listening, but Zhu Jingyuan was a little lost in thought.
How many years passed between the first electronic computer and the first game console and the first personal computer?
In the original history, ENIAC was born in 1946, Xerox designed the personal computer "Otto" in 1973, which already had a mouse and graphical display interface, and Jobs launched the Apple 2 in 1977.
In the 1980s, there was the Nintendo FC, the prototype of the Subtitles, and in the 1990s, there was the Sony PS.
Diablo 2 was released in 2000, Warcraft 3 was released in 2002, and Legend of Blood was released in public beta in 2001.
Intel released the Core 2 Duo processor in 2006, and Apple released the Apple 3G in 2008.
At this time, just over sixty years had passed since Eniak was born.
In other words, even if the computer industry develops naturally at a normal pace, in about thirty years, middle-class families in Ming Dynasty will have the opportunity to use personal computers, and their children will also have the opportunity to play video games.
Fifty years from now we will be able to play computer games, and sixty years from now we will be able to use capacitive screen touch mobile phones.
If I can live to be eighty, my lifestyle at that time will be closer to that of my previous life.
If I specifically promote the accelerated development of computer technology, I may wait until I am fifty to play the online game "Come and kill me if you are a brother" on your computer.
When I retire at the age of sixty, I can search the Internet with my touch-screen phone and wonder why my game frame rate suddenly dropped from 60 to 56.
Thinking of these things, Zhu Jingyuan's spirit quickly lifted up and he gained unprecedented work motivation.
Zhu Jingyuan suddenly turned to the craftsmen around him:
"Do you have a pen and paper? I have some new ideas. I'll write them down and you can try them out when you have time..."
Without any hesitation, several craftsmen immediately led Zhu Jingyuan to the side, to the table where various registration forms were stored.
Zhu Jingyuan sat at this table. Under the gaze of Zhu Zhongliang and a group of craftsmen, he picked up a pen and began to write about transistors while thinking about it.
The transistor was actually invented relatively early. Eniac appeared in the second year of service, and the first transistor computer was produced in 1955.
The computing power of transistor computers is exponentially improved compared to tube computers.
This allows Ming craftsmen to start relevant research in advance.
In order to use compact personal computers as soon as possible, we must accelerate the semiconductor industry from now on.
Zhu Jingyuan stayed in the computer laboratory for three days, wrote down his ideas about transistors, and gave detailed explanations to the craftsmen here.
Let them arrange some personnel to start related research and testing.
Transistor computers will serve as the successor to tube computers.
Now that the principle of the tube computer has been basically established, the next step is to expand and produce models of different sizes, and it is indeed possible to start new research.
This arrangement is reasonable and reasonable, and the craftsmen are more impressed by His Highness Prince Dashi's new idea.
