The successful test of the new rifle not only made Ferguson and the others ecstatic, even Shi Xiong himself couldn't help but feel a little smug.

　　 It’s been more than seven months since I came to this world. I have been so busy with so many things, and now I finally have a decent achievement.

　　 Compared to salt making, oil pressing, and wine making, it is Shikuma’s proudest thing to develop a rifle that is at least ten years ahead of this era.

　　 Steelmaking, refining nitrous oxide, purifying sulfur, smelting lead and tin, improving broaching machines, and even the all-metal machine tools currently under development, all of these are to lay the foundation for these ten new rifles.

　　 And the success of the test of these ten new rifles also proved that all that was done before was not done in vain.

In other words, the current Gaoshu tribe already has a relatively rudimentary industrial foundation. The next thing Shixiong needs to do is to continue to expand the industrial foundation of the Gaoshu tribe in terms of depth and breadth on the premise of consolidating this foundation. development of.

　　 For example, the development of alloy steel, the development of all-metal machine tools, and the erection of waterwheels are all about expanding our industrial base toward depth. As long as an all-metal machine tool is developed, even the simplest machine tool, coupled with the successfully developed alloy steel, steel processing in the future will not be as difficult as it is now.

　　 The erection of the waterwheel is a work of liberating manpower. At present, almost all the work of Gaoshu tribe is done with manpower. As the so-called "manpower is sometimes poor", Shixiong has now started to erect waterwheels, turning some labor-intensive and long-term repetitive tasks into water power. Do motivation.

　　 The steam engine has not yet been improved, so the waterwheel is the best choice for new power.

　　 Now on the bank of the Little River to the west of the tribe, two waterwheels with a height of ten meters in design are under construction. The old wooden family and dozens of strong tribesmen are building these two waterwheels. Once the two waterwheels are successfully built, the development of Gaoshu tribe will usher in a peak period.

The hydraulic resources of the Little River are still very good. Although the section of the river to the west of the tribe is 40 to 50 meters wide, the water of the Little River just roared from the Great Smoky Mountains. The flow velocity in this section of the river is still relatively fast.

　　 On the west side of the wharf built by the tribe, there is a two- to three-hundred-meter river that is very suitable for erecting waterwheels, so Shixiong has arranged for the old wooden family to start the construction and erection of waterwheels.

　　 The waterwheel is no different from an artifact to the Indians, but for people like the stone bear who traveled from the future and Europeans now, the waterwheel is a commonplace thing.

　　 Now let alone in Europe, even in colonial cities or towns in the New World, there are many waterwheels working **** both sides of the river.

　　Before the steam engine was improved, the waterwheel was the best source of power available to mankind.

　　 The cylindrical roller bearing that Jack Williams had produced before was severely criticized by Shixiong, and the alchemist from England began to improve the bearing.

Apart from his daily research and development of all-metal machine tools and gears, he puts almost all of his energy on the improvement of bearings. In addition, Shixiong will remind him from time to time, so in less than one Within months, this cylindrical roller bearing has been improved to basically meet the requirements of Shixiong.

　　With such barely usable bearings, the efficiency of the waterwheel will be increased by N times.

After all, in this era, Europeans built waterwheels without bearings. The main shaft of the waterwheel and the support bearing bushes of the waterwheel frame are hard ground. Even Europeans add various greases to reduce friction, but it is always the case. Hard grinding.

　　 And for the two waterwheels erected by the Gaoshu tribe, the most critical waterwheel spindle is prepared to use this cylindrical roller bearing modified by Jack Williams.ァ新ヤ~⑧~1~中文网ωωω.χ~⒏~1zщ.còм

　　 Two large cylindrical roller bearings will be stuck on the casted bearing frame, and the bearing frame will be fixed on the waterwheel support frame. Then when the waterwheel rotates, when the main shaft of the waterwheel rotates, it will drive the bearing to rotate without hard grinding with the bearing bush.

　　The speed of the waterwheel is not fast, and the cylindrical roller bearing is made of a relatively large head, so even if the cylindrical roller has some error, after adding grease, the error is within the acceptable range.

　　Especially after the bearings are used, there is less friction between the main shaft and the support frame of the waterwheel, and the working efficiency of the waterwheel will be greatly improved.

　　Once the waterwheel is built, through the transmission of gears, a waterwheel can drive several workpieces to work at the same time.

　　 At that time, the work that requires a lot of manpower or animal power and lasts for a long time, such as crushing materials, can be completely handed over to the hydraulically driven grinding table, and only one or two people next to it are OK, which can greatly liberate manpower. First release https://https://

　　 There is also a blast equipment that is necessary for iron smelting in a blast furnace-a wind box, which can also be driven by hydraulic power. With gear transmission and bearings, a more efficient crankshaft can be made for transmission.

All in all, once the two waterwheels are built and tested successfully ~lightnovelpub.net~, then it can be foreseen that more waterwheels will be erected on the banks of the Little River to the west of the Gaoshu tribe. . On the bank of the French Broad River next to the original Daqingshan tribe, more waterwheels will also be erected.

　　The Daqingshan tribe will become the metallurgical base of the Gaoshu tribe in the future, which Shixiong has already planned. The waterwheel will play a greater role there.

Jean Agusta’s work is almost done. The work of burning glass is not a difficult task for him. Now in a large wooden house newly built in the middle of the Gaoshu tribe, various bottles and cans and A lot of experimental equipment has been piled up.

　　 And under the guidance of Agusta, many tribesmen of the tribe are already able to burn and blow glass. In the next step, this junior laboratory can carry out various chemical experiments.

　　 Brother Li's cement firing has also had preliminary results. With Shixiong's golden fingers, firing cement is not a difficult task.

　　 It's like the big pond built by David Adion on the north side of the tribe. It has already used the newly fired cement.

　　 This big pond is specially used to soak wood. The raw materials for papermaking will be immersed in this large pool for dozens of days before the next step of processing can be carried out. Therefore, cigarettes will be at least in the past two months.

　　 But once paper is successfully made, then a steady stream of cigarettes can be produced next.

　　 And what makes Shixiong most happy is not the progress of work, what makes him the most happy is the vibrant crops spread across the large farmland on both sides of the Little River...