Chapter 394 (1/2)

After the successful test of the new rifle, Shi Xiong decided to start mass production of this rifle.

Of course, the so-called large-scale production, in terms of current production capacity and technical ability, is like producing five or six rifles a day. This is the speed after using the ten seat water wheel as the power.

No way, before the improved steam engine appeared, hydraulic power was the best power.

”Is it a chance for the four alchemists to get the improved steam engine out?” Stone Bear looked at those gears in the water wheel driven by the difficult rotation of the scene, the mind can not help but jump out of an idea.

When the name ”steam engine” is mentioned in later generations, the first name in 99% of people's minds is watt. Most people in later generations think that Watt invented the steam engine.

In fact, this is a wrong cognition. Watt only improved the steam engine, which was not invented by Watt.

As a former Museum worker, Shi Xiong naturally knew that the first steam powered machine in the world actually appeared as early as the first century B.C., which was called ”steam spinning ball”.

Hiro was a great mathematician and inventor in ancient Rome. He invented many things in his life because of the influence of his works. For example, the wind wheel powered by wind power, for example, the steam ball powered by steam.

In fact, the balloon is just a toy invented by Hiro, that is, a hollow sphere and an airtight pot filled with water are connected by two hollow tubes, and the water heated at the bottom of the pot boils, then turns into steam, and then enters into the ball through the tubes. Finally, the steam will be ejected from both sides of the sphere and make the sphere rotate.

For Hiro, the balloon is a novel toy and has no practical use. However, academically speaking, the balloon is recognized as the rudiment of the world's first steam engine.

French physicist Dennis baben built the first working model of a steam engine in 1679 after watching the steam escape from his pressure cooker. In 1698, Thomas Seville and 1712, Thomas newcomer built the early industrial steam engine.

At this time, Watt was not born.

James Watt is famous because he used scientific theory to make a series of improvements and inventions to those inefficient steam engines, such as separate condenser, heat insulation layer outside cylinder, oil lubricated piston, planetary gear, parallel motion connecting rod mechanism, centrifugal governor, throttle valve, pressure gauge, etc, So that the efficiency of the steam engine increased to more than three times of those old steam engines, and finally invented a real industrial steam engine.

Therefore, Mr. watt only improved the steam engine, not invented it.

Although Shi Xiong was not an engineering student in his previous life, he learned the working principle of the steam engine as early as junior high school. It is not that Shi Xiong has never seen an advanced steam engine, so his understanding of the steam engine is much better than watt.

Shi Xiong remembers that last year, in 1765, Watt began to improve the steam engine. At this time, Watt should have separated the condenser of the old newcomer steam engine from the cylinder, so that the temperature of the cylinder can be maintained at the temperature of the injected steam. On this basis, he quickly built a continuous operation model.

But it will be a few years before watt makes his first industrial steam engine.

If stone bear wants to, he can take out the first industrial steam engine in watt.

It's just that if we want to develop the steam engine now, we really can't catch it.