The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria’s Mandate of Heaven

v2 Chapter 44: scientists (1)

The coast is very quiet, the dark water beats **** the reef.

The soldiers of the Austrian Marine Corps hid the boat behind an imperceptible reef.

Ten attack teams, a total of 50 marines, were stepping on the reef and slowly moving towards the position where three fires were lit.

In order to reduce the noise as much as possible, their shoes are specially made in Franz's arsenal, rubber non-slip shoes, the texture on the top can greatly increase the friction, and at the same time, they will not be too heavy and make unnecessary noise. The exterior adopts suede waterproof technology, and at the same time, a layer of aluminum alloy plate is installed inside, which also has the anti-stab function.

Their military boots should be the best in this era. The technology of aluminum alloy is not difficult. Just adding some copper and magnesium can greatly strengthen the strength of aluminum, and at the same time it is very light.

It's just that it's not easy to explain this principle to the craftsmen, and Franz simply classifies it as alchemy.

The vulcanized rubber technology was originally invented by the Americans, but Franz did not intend to pay patent fees to the Americans, so he let this technology come out ahead of schedule. It is similar to the aluminum alloy technology and does not have a high threshold.

Moreover, under the operation of Franz, the chemistry circle in Vienna can be said to be full of stars.

Avogadro, another unlucky guy in the history of science, also lived in Austria, a genius chemist, who was unknown during his lifetime, and after fifty years of his article was published, someone finally understood it and regarded it as a god-man , and named the law he discovered as Avogadro's law.

Avogadro, who received a salary of 500 florins at the University of Turin and worked as a scribe at night, heard that there was a job with an annual salary of 2,000 florins, so he immediately went to Vienna with his family.

Friedrich Wöhler, at the age of 36, was the head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Göttingen. He was at the peak of his life. Franz was rejected several times, and the University of Göttingen also attached great importance to him. Do my best to keep it.

In the end, Adjani asked one of her subordinates to get through Weller's line by approaching Weller's teacher Leopold Gmelin.

Weller respected his teacher Gemelin very much, so naturally he couldn't refuse the teacher's invitation, so the master and apprentice pair packed up and came to Vienna.

Leopold Gmelin was also a great chemist, but his personal morality was not very good, and he was easily controlled by Adjani's subordinates.

The Violet Knights are useless in the hands of Madam Sophie. After being handed over to Adjani, some troublesome things can be solved at a very small price.

Of course, Mrs. Sophie didn't do nothing. She stuffed those orphans and women who went astray into the Violet Knights. There were only a dozen people in the team, but now it has grown to nearly 300 people, but the level is low. It's hard to say.

Adjani's former deputy, Caroline, had a less obvious scar on her face.

Robert William Bunsen and Kirchhoff, these two came to Vienna while wandering around. Franz didn't know these two, so naturally he wouldn't invite them.

The two young men were not well-known. They spent a lot of time in Vienna. As soon as they woke up the next day, they saw carriages carrying beautiful noble ladies driving to the north of the city.

The two followed all the way, and entered the Royal Women's Academy in Vienna, which happened to have insufficient teachers.

And the person in charge of recruiting students happened to be Professor Li Bixi. He was very disgusted with the two drunks, and he heard that they were majoring in chemistry, which made Professor Li Bixi furious.

However, after some tests, the two were actually quite insightful, and Li Bixi was also impressed by their talents and reached out his hand.

"Gentlemen, congratulations on your successful examination. Introduce yourself, Eustis von Liebig. It has been a pleasure working with you."

Robert William Bunsen and Kirchhoff were taken aback for a moment, then shook their heads repeatedly.

"Impossible! You must be dreaming. If you are Liebig, I am Plato." Bunsen said.

"Then I am Socrates," Kirchhoff continued.

"Why are you Socrates? I am older than you!" Bunsen said.

"It's great to be old, and I drink more than you!" Kirchhoff retorted.

"I think you haven't sobered up, I'll help you sober up." Bunsen slapped Kirchhoff across the face.

"Huh! It hurts so much, why does it hurt so much in a dream? You wake up too!" Kirchhoff also slapped him.

Kirchhoff and Bunsen slapped each other on the face, Liebig finally couldn't take it anymore and walked away, leaving only one sentence.

"Two lunatics."

After a while, Kirchhoff and Bunsen said while covering their red and swollen cheeks.

"It doesn't seem like a dream?"

"Then the one just now was really Liebig himself?"

"Wow!"

The two hugged each other again and cried, not knowing whether it was excitement or shame.

Charles Babbage, a genius inventor who in 1834 developed the principle of the Analytical Engine, a precursor to the modern electronic computer, in which he conceived of performing any mathematical operation based on instructions on punched cards that stored data possibilities, and envisioned most of the other features of modern computers.

However, the British government refused to support his work on the grounds that his ideas were too advanced and the design was difficult to realize.

When this genius was looking for a job, Vienna responded to him. Charles Babbage only wanted to complete his own research, so he immediately accepted Franz's invitation.

How important computers are, no one in this era knows better than Franz, and Babbage's request for funding is not very high, fifteen hundred pounds a year.

Along with Babbage came his assistant~lightnovelpub.net~Ada Lovelace, the only legal heir of Lord Byron and the first programmer in history.

They were British, and the subject of their research required a lot of mathematical calculations, so Franz arranged for some mathematicians to be their assistants.

Franz knew that Babbage's dream would not be successful, but a hundred years later people developed a real computer based on his research, which is the computer we are familiar with in later generations.

In history, Babbage did not receive any funding, but in order to turn the drawings of the Analytical Engine into reality, he exhausted all his property and became impoverished.

He had no choice but to temporarily put down the work at hand and discuss with Ada how to make some money, such as making some chess toys, horse racing game machines and so on.

In order to raise funds for scientific research, they had to "go to sea" to "generate income". In the end, the two fell into a predicament of constant anxiety.

Ada reluctantly sent the ancestral treasures of her husband's family to the **** shop twice to maintain daily expenses, and these treasures were redeemed by her mother twice.

Poverty, endless mental work, Ada's health deteriorated rapidly. In 1852, with the beautiful dream of the success of the Analytical Engine and the silent sorrow, the female software wizard returned to the underworld, her fragrance disappeared, and she was only 36 years old when she died.

After that, Babbage persisted in poverty for another 20 years, and finally passed away unwillingly. In order to live and study, Babbage even served as the most despised family teacher and maid in this era to grab food.

So after Babbage and Ada came to Vienna, the first thing they did was to eat Hesse.

The chefs who ate at the restaurant had never seen such a messed-up professor. Fortunately, there was a handicraft class in the women's college, and a group of little girls lined up to feed the two hungry professors with their own experimental products.