Chapter 226 (1/2)

The success of the new rifle test not only made Ferguson and others overjoyed, but also made stone bear feel a little complacent.

It's been more than seven months since I came to this world. I've been busy with so many things. Now I finally have an achievement that I can win.

Compared with salt making, oil pressing and wine making, the most proud thing for stone bear is to develop a rifle that is at least ten years ahead of this era.

Steelmaking, refining nitre, purifying sulfur, smelting lead and tin, improving broaching machine and even all metal machine tools under development are all for laying the foundation for these ten new rifles.

The success of these ten new rifles also proves that all the previous work has not been done in vain.

That is to say, now the gaoshu tribe has a relatively primary industrial foundation. The next step stone bear needs to do is to continue to develop the industrial foundation of the gaoshu tribe in depth and breadth on the premise of consolidating this foundation.

For example, the development of alloy steel, the development of all metal machine tools, and the erection of waterwheel are expanding our industrial base to the depth. As long as all metal machine tools are developed, even the simplest machine tools, combined with the successful development of alloy steel, the steel processing in the future will not be as difficult as it is now.

The erection of waterwheel is a kind of work to liberate manpower. At present, almost all the work of gaoshu tribe is done by manpower. As the saying goes, ”manpower is sometimes poor”, so Shi Xiong is now starting to build water tankers to turn some long-term repetitive work requiring strong labor force into water power.

It's not time for the steam engine to be improved, so the waterwheel is the best choice for new power.

Now, on the Bank of the litterliver River in the west of the tribe, two 10 meter high water tankers are being built. The old wood family and dozens of strong tribal people are building the two water tankers. Once these two water trucks are successfully built, the development of gaoshu tribe will usher in a peak period.

The hydraulic resources of the litterliver River are very good. Although the section of the river in the west of the tribe is forty or fifty meters wide, the flow of the litterliver River, which has just roared from Dawu Mountain, is relatively fast in this section of the river.

On the west side of the wharf built by the tribe, there is a river of two or three hundred meters, which is very suitable for erecting water tankers. So Shi Xiong has arranged for Lao Mu's family to start the construction of water tankers.

The water wheel is no different from artifact for Indians, but it is a common thing for people like stone bear who come from the future and for Europeans today.

Now let alone in Europe, even in colonial cities or towns in the new world, there are a lot of waterways working hard on both sides of the river.

Before the steam engine was improved, waterwheel was the best power source that human beings could use.

The cylindrical roller bearing that Jack Williams made before was severely criticized by the stone bear. After that, the alchemist from England began to improve the bearing.

In addition to his daily research and development of all metal machine tools and gears, he put almost all his energy on the improvement of the bearing. In addition, Shi Xiong gave him some advice from time to time. Therefore, in less than a month, this kind of cylindrical roller bearing has been basically improved to meet the requirements of Shi Xiong.

With this barely usable bearing, the efficiency of the waterwheel will be increased by N times.