The Prodigal Son's Happy Life - Chapter 897

[Chapter 897 is better than ten years of reading!]

When Fang Xiu heard this, he waved his hand and said casually: “It doesn’t matter, researching steam engines is an extremely difficult task. Don’t be anxious, take your time, it will take a long time, and you can do it after all.

I I would have been satisfied if I could see this steam engine perfected a hundred years ago.”

What Fang Xiu said was his true thoughts.

From the beginning, he did not expect that the Mechanical Academy would be able to perfect the steam engine within a few years.

After all, he is also a student of history. He knows how much time has been spent from the invention of the first steam engine, to Watt’s improvement of the steam engine, to the actual use of steam engines in cars and ships.

One hundred years is considered a short time

. However, Xu Ze and the scholars at the Mechanical Academy did not think so.

The Marquis of Xin’an always worked vigorously and resolutely, even when it came to building roads. For such a big project, if it was said that it was going to be repaired, it would be repaired immediately.

A small steam engine, but it still has to wait for hundreds of years?

It goes without saying what this means.

Xu Ze and several students lowered their heads subconsciously, with guilty looks on their faces.

Shame on, shame on you!

Fang Xiu did not notice this scene.

Because at this moment, all his eyes were focused on the simple steam engine behind a few people.

Don’t tell me, it really looks a bit like that.

It was really a bit like what he had seen in various books before.

But he couldn’t remember exactly what it was.

Otherwise, there would be no need for Xu Ze to lead others to study, and he would draw the design drawings himself.

However, I always felt that something was wrong with the steam engine.

After observing the steam engine for a while, Xu Ze looked at Xu Ze and asked, “How does this steam engine work?”

Xu Ze heard Fang Xiu’s question and hurriedly replied, “Reply. According to the Marquis, the main structure of the steam engine is divided into several parts, the most important of which is the cylinder. First of all, “

Xu Ze can talk about the steam engine endlessly.

After all, he designed it himself, and he took care of every detail.

This steam engine is like his child to Xu Ze.

Every bit of it, his hard work was poured into it.

For more than a month, he had hardly been home. He stayed at the Mechanical Academy day and night, constantly revising the drawings and pondering the principles.

When I have nothing to do, I just stare at the boiling water and wonder why the water boils and where the power of boiling comes from.

Finally, I understand what this water vapor is and why water vapor produces power.

And designed this crude steam engine.

Coupled with manufacturing, until now, there has been almost no rest.

Fang Xiu’s expression gradually changed as he listened to Xu Ze’s story.

After a while, Fang Xiu finally couldn’t help it anymore and asked: “If it’s so troublesome, why don’t you design a cylinder and then add a piston to guide the water vapor to another cylinder? In that cylinder, wait Condensation?

After condensation, it will become a vacuum. After the vacuum, force will naturally be generated to push the original water vapor into the condensed cylinder again and again. It does not waste water vapor and the efficiency is much faster. Compared with you, It saves a lot of trouble and time.”

Although Fang Xiu is not an engineering major, he is still quite familiar with improved steam engines.

As soon as Xu Ze explained it to him, he understood.

Isn’t it the steam engine that Xu Ze developed before Watt improved it?

In this case, wouldn’t it be good to follow Watt’s improvement method and add a condenser?

When Xu Ze heard Fang Xiu’s words, he was startled for a moment, then frowned tightly.

To Fang Xiu, these things are common sense.

For Xu Ze and his students, it is not easy to understand this.

The students were silent.

They understood none of what the Marquis said.

Moreover,

they knew that Xin’an Hou was a genius, a genius that was rare to see in a thousand years.

However, that is only in other aspects, or Xin’anhou has read some ancient books and can summarize some methods from the ancient books.

But the steam engine was something completely new.

Looking at ancient and modern times, there has never been anything similar to a steam engine, and the principle of this steam engine is also the most advanced today.

Before them, no one had ever discovered that the water would turn into steam when heated, and that the movement of the steam would produce power.

These are all new.

No matter how talented Xin’an Hou is, how can he understand a brand-new theory and thing that has never been seen before?

What Xin’anhou said was probably just what he took for granted.

Several scholars thought so, so they didn’t reply.

Only Xu Ze and Zhu Er knew that Fang Xiu’s talents were beyond what ordinary people could imagine.

You know, every word Xin’anhou said is not without purpose, it must be based on basis!

Therefore, at this moment, they were thinking deeply.

After a while, Xu Ze looked at Fang Xiu with a serious expression and asked, “I wonder, Lord Marquis, what vacuum are you talking about?” Shouldn’t

vacuum

be the simplest common sense?

When Fang Xiu heard this question, he was startled for a moment. He really didn’t know how to explain it. After thinking for a long time, he finally said: “A vacuum means nothing. The place where we live seems to be nothingness, with nothing. In fact, there is air.

And this air is composed of many different kinds of gases, but in a vacuum, even these gases are gone.

Generally speaking, a vacuum will be formed only by removing all the gases from a closed space . After a vacuum

state

is formed, the outside will exert a certain force on the sealed space.

If things outside want to enter the vacuum sealed space, the vacuum sealed space will also attract air.”

Fang Xiu said this. For a liberal arts student to explain to the ancients what a vacuum state is, it would only embarrass him.

After all, Fang Xiu himself didn’t know much about it.

But, probably, maybe, that’s what happened.

Anyway, it should be enough to explain the principle of condenser operation.

Sure enough, Xu Ze’s eyes lit up after hearing Fang Xiu’s description of the vacuum.

“Master Marquis, I seem to understand what you mean. During this period of time, I have been observing the steam, and I discovered that in a sealed teapot, if the water turns into steam, the lid will generate force, as if it is pressing down on people. It seemed like it was stuck, but it couldn’t be opened even if I hit it.

I’ve always been puzzled and didn’t know where this power came from. When you said this, I realized that it was the power of the vacuum

outside .

The air inside turns into steam. The power outside is strong and the power inside the teapot is small, resulting in a power gap, so it cannot be opened!

Mr. Hou, you are really a genius!

Listening to your words is worth reading for ten years! A book is better than ten years of reading!”

(End of this chapter)