Chapter 460: Scientific Research

  Chapter 450 – Scientific Research

As the sun set, the colorful sunset rose in the sky, reflecting Vienna in a more colorful way.

The busy people did not have time to enjoy this beautiful scene. Olabeaver was an exception, the lab had recently assigned him an easy job, a sort of vacation.

Bathed in the evening sun, Olabifo did not forget the work at hand. Picking up what appeared to be an earpiece in his hand, but also looked like a microphone, he shouted out.

That’s right, this was his day’s work. Since it was a vacation, naturally there wasn’t much to do. Three call tests a day was a day’s work.

Initially, it was just outside the lab, then the distance gradually enlarged. Now Ollabeef was more than twenty kilometers from the lab, and if it was any farther, it would be out of Vienna.

Olabifo had been working at the Royal Academy of Sciences for five years now, and there were no surprises; overtime was commonplace in organizations engaged in scientific research.

Five years, Olabeaver’s longest vacation is less than three days. The so-called long vacation, is nothing more than position adjustment to a more relaxed seat, relax the pressure.

Telephone research has always been one of the laboratory’s key projects, as early as the 18th century in Europe, the word “telephone”, 1860 Italy Antonio Muzi had invented the telephone.

But it didn’t work well, or at all. The original time and space has been defaulted to 1876 Bell invented the telephone, only because Bell improved it, with practical value.

Now, naturally, they couldn’t wait that long, and this relatively easy-to-attack technology was on Franz’s radar early on.

From the test distance can be seen, the Royal Academy of Sciences in the telephone research has taken the first step, are not far from success.

If you do not take into account the quality of the call, the phone can now be carried out “voice chat in the same city”, has a certain commercial value.

The birth of the telephone was originally designed for people to communicate easily. Dozens of kilometers to achieve call coverage, obviously can not meet the needs of Franz.

Improving call quality has become the biggest problem. As long as the voice transmission technology gets a breakthrough, it is convenient to expand the call distance instead.

The big deal was manual wiring, Franz didn’t have such high expectations and took it for granted that he could realize intelligent wire changing in one step.

Oscar on the other end of the phone surprised him by reporting, “Olabeef, keep your voice down, I’m not deaf.”

Olabiver’s heart was glad that the quality of the call had improved. Almost every day, new equipment is being replaced, messing around with ideas, all being tested in turn.

Invention and creation is very boring a lot of the time, watching the brain of the researchers, coupled with a lot of experiments, to be able to achieve the final results.

Of course, the most important thing is luck. Almost all scientists recognize that scientific research has to eat the meal of luck, and people with bad luck are not suitable for scientific research.

Olabeaver, who was in a good mood, directly disliked back, “Got it Oscar, if you were deaf, you wouldn’t have reported my loud voice.

However, I don’t think that should be the focus of your attention right now. It seems the quality of this call has improved and success is not far off.”

Just because the quality of the call has improved doesn’t mean it’s a success. After all, this was just a dedicated phone line, and in practical use, this thing didn’t have an economic value.

But the lab had that in its favor, it could divide up the work and conduct research on multiple technologies at once, even with multiple groups for each technology.

Going the quantity route, this was too great an advantage over individual researchers.

Take the telephone research, for example, this key project, there are hundreds of people involved. Including: voice quality, telephone exchanges, telephone lines, telephone …… is divided into a dozen groups, simultaneous research.

Any advancement in technology is vital to this project. Bonuses were naturally at a premium, and Franz was consistently generous in this regard.

Scientific research can’t be powered by love, and that amount of electricity can’t support the whole industry. The Royal Academy of Sciences is to be credited for the good development of the Austrian research sector in recent years.

Every year, millions of Shenduan’s funding has become the source of driving force for Austria’s scientific and technological progress.

Compared to the telephone, the phonograph technology is more mature, the relevant patents have been registered. It is expected that after Christmas this year, it will be put on the market for sale.

Well, and robbed Edison’s patent, and so play on, Franz very doubtful that the inventor, the back of the new tricks to come up with.

These inventions, so that Franz is no longer obsessed with celebrities. Facts have proved that, as long as the willingness to invest, these technically feasible, just missing the idea of scientific inventions and creations, can be smashed out.

That being the case, Edison’s value was greatly diminished. It is much easier to get a scientist than a businessman, and instead of spending a lot of money chasing after successful “businessmen”, you should be able to support hundreds of researchers for the same amount of money.

That’s what really strengthens a nation. Behind any powerful nation in recent times, there have been a bunch of researchers and engineers.

Without industry, the great ideas of scientists will always be just ideas, and if they want to become reality, they will have to depend on basic industry.

Even scientific and technological progress is also closely related, people in the attention of Edison, Einstein, these bulls, often ignoring the back of the silent basic science researchers.

These people have no popularity, no impact on people’s lives, yet all inventions can not be separated from them.

The problem can be seen in the fact that since the 19th century, most scientific inventions have been concentrated in continental Europe.

It’s not that there are no geniuses in other regions, it’s just that the lack of basic industry can’t afford to support these geniuses in their inventions and they have to take a different path.

In a corner of the research institute, the internal combustion engine project team is still struggling hard.

The origin of this technology is also very early, the 17th century Dutch physicist Huygens used gunpowder explosion to obtain power research, but because of the immaturity of gunpowder technology, difficult to control the results led to research failure.

In 1794, the British Streeter proposed from the combustion of fuel to obtain power, and for the first time proposed the concept of fuel mixed with air.

In 1833, the British Wright proposed the direct use of combustion pressure to push the piston design.

In the mid-19th century, scientists perfected the theory of converting mechanical power through the heat generated by burning gas, gasoline, and diesel fuel. This laid the foundation for the invention of the internal combustion engine.

Since the introduction of the piston internal combustion engine in the 1860s, after continuous improvement and development, has been a relatively perfect machine.

In 1860, the French Lenoir imitated the structure of the steam engine and designed and manufactured the first practical gas engine.

These were the external factors that led to the establishment of the internal combustion engine project. Now that the foundation had been laid, Franz naturally did not neglect this epoch-making invention.

From a technical point of view alone, the technology of the internal combustion engine was possible in the 18th century. Of course, scientific research is not that easy, and the breakthrough was delayed until the late 19th century.

Franz’s push only accelerated the process, and the internal combustion engine had already been born in the laboratory two years earlier.

Only because the power is too small, no practical value, currently can only be left in the museum for people to see, is now the second generation of internal combustion engine.

When, to be able to apply to life, this question can only depend on luck. After all, laboratory results and commercial use are two concepts.

There were still a lot of black technologies in the Royal Academy of Sciences, only that they were not able to be introduced to the world because of various reasons. Among them, medicine and biology were the most numerous, and many very effective medicines could not be industrially produced at all.

Not only is the industrial technology even less, many are too few raw materials. Especially the kind of hundreds of years of herbal plants processed out of the drug, the laboratory itself research lack of raw materials.

Needless to say, the backer behind these messy studies was Franz.

The projects researched in Vienna were not so bad, it was the labs partly in Africa that were horrible. There was also a time when the laboratory sewage discharge led to the extinction of several African tribes.

It can be said that the earliest biochemical weapons, fortunately Franz had the foresight to put the laboratory in the African continent, or things will be big.

Franz has always believed that every good scientist is a little master of death. A lot of things that are not understood at all, dare to directly carry out research, not to admire can not.

A lot of lousy research had resulted in unimaginable consequences. If Franz had wanted to, he could have made biochemical weapons by now.

Obviously, the peace-loving guy didn’t do that. Who knew the byproducts of scientific research, how serious the consequences would be if they were released, and Franz was even less inclined to try.

Medical technology in this era is limited, in case an unknown virus is released, it’s not impossible to directly put the human race to rest.

This aspect of the scientists, or know the importance of each experiment to collect data after the research should be carefully dealt with the garbage brought about by the research.

If you want to pit people, collect these waste materials and send them over for safekeeping with remarkable effect. Of course, this kind of unethical thing, Franz is never do.

In order to dispose of laboratory waste, he also paid a big price. Usually it was incinerated at high temperatures, and then shipped to off-the-beaten-path places to be buried, and would not stay in the country anyway.

(End of chapter)