From Chief to Ball

It’s not coal-fired. It’s a waste of time to burn coal for a small model. You can burn alcohol or kerosene; you don’t need much power, you can have an arm length, and you can pull yourself to swing on the carefully crafted toy rails; you don’t need much Advanced processing technology, files, hand drills, steel pliers and lost wax method can basically complete most of the components.

Making a model is definitely different from making a practical machine. Many practical machines require high conditions, and the model does not need to be so strict, as long as it is guaranteed not to explode and can run.

For the internal core components and model size, Chen Jian does not need to use a file to file it himself.On the other side, a large sum of money has been invested in the research of practical technology to make precise weights and measures and calipers. This is the prerequisite for practical technologies such as practical steam engines and nautical clocks. Artisans polish and cast.

It takes a long time to ponder and draw, and it may take about a year to a year and a half of spare time.

But while waiting for these core models to be ready for construction, the rest of the models can be prepared now.

For example, the track can be made of expensive brass and carefully polished by craftsmen or apprentices.On the one hand, it does not rust, and on the other hand, it is brighter and more dazzling.

Stations, lead models, model painting, turnouts, sand tables, etc. that match the track can all be made now.

The point of this model is not whether it looks good, or whether it can be directly scaled up to make a train.The key point is that under the condition that the technical level cannot be reached at this time, people can intuitively feel what kind of scene will be after the train appears. This is more acceptable than describing it with words, especially when it moves After that, it is even more imaginative.

In fact, under the conditions of stack, eucommia glue, wood paint, lead and sulfuric acid, a simple DC motor is used as the power of the model; or a wire is drawn on the brass model track to make an electric locomotive model, and a simple hand crank is used to generate electricity It is far simpler to make an AC model motor without a commutator; it is far simpler than making a steam engine model, and it can even be said to be much simpler.

However, steam is close at hand, and the model is difficult, but it is a little simple to use; the motor model is simple, but it is difficult to use, and it may be difficult to use it without a century of material science accumulation.

Furthermore, it is very good to have an electric lamp to scare people or lure people, but it is far less powerful to use it on a model train or a power machine model than to light a fire and smoke to give people a huge shock.

This is the practice of giving up the easy and seeking the difficult. After careful consideration, I still feel that I will continue to try. If there is no progress in this kind of model and precision weights and measures for a year and a half, I will change to a simple electric model at that time.

As for the remaining things such as silver iodide silver bromide photography, etc., Chen Jian felt that he should not do it, and left it to some people as an opportunity to be a rich man.

This opportunity is both fame and money. As a bait to attract talents for his planned university in Min County, it is excellent. Anyway, this kind of reputation has no meaning to him.

Chapter 79 Nanyang Public School and its first issue

While waiting for people from various branches of the party to rush back to Fujian for an enlarged meeting, Chen Jian spent most of his time preparing and compiling teaching materials for the weird and weird tricks of the exhibition three to five years later. And do easy-to-understand principles of knowing why.

After spending two months completing most of the weird drawings and components that could be completed in a short period of time, Chen Jian went to the second power center of Min County for the first time. The second power center asked for one thing, and it was quickly granted, and it also received donations from many people.

He asked for approval for a large piece of land outside Fujian City, near the Meridian Observatory, and began preparations for the establishment of a tax-free "Nanyang Public School".

At this time, it is still a wasteland or farmland, and no construction has started, but the preparatory work has already begun.

Nanyang Public School is definitely not recognized by the capital, but it has been recognized by the new county council, the second authority in Min County, and can be used as a degree equivalent to the status of a school to become a local civil servant in Min County.

This is already rare, and it can be regarded as a signal that the various forces in Min County have begun to plan for the long-term, or it is a feedback from the theory that knowledge is too useful after more than ten years of indoctrination.

The Nanyang Public School under preparation will merge the Lanxiang Technical School, the Science and Technology Practical Research Institute, and simultaneously open a high school and university, as well as an officer training school disguised as a sailing school.

The worldview of the teaching materials is based entirely on the worldviews of various "hypotheses" or "conjectures" written by Chen Jian. The first batch is basically assessed from the students who taught natural knowledge and algebraic geometry under the control of the Mo Party in Min County. Selection, and the university is temporarily empty, first recruit students from high schools.

The gentlemen of the university are also mainly Chen Jian's seniors and juniors, participants of the scientific meeting of the Soda Manufacturing Association, scholars attracted by the science of Mincheng, and old gentlemen who were tricked by Chen Jian or came forward to invite them.

In the past ten years, Mincheng, as the second academic center of the Republic, has attracted many people to settle here, and the various seminars that are often held here also make the academic atmosphere here very strong, even if it is not as good as the school palace in terms of knowledge in the old days Those people's science and engineering knowledge under the new worldview is no worse than that of the northern schools.

For the time being, the university will offer thirteen disciplines, plus three liberal arts disciplines for foreign exchanges.

Teacher education, mathematics, chemistry, physics and construction engineering, metallurgy and mining and explosives, geography, natural history, agriculture, simple mechanical principles, astronomy and navigation surveying and mapping, medicine, political economy, accounting and statistics, this It is the proposed thirteen first-run disciplines.

The three literature disciplines for foreign exchange are law, history and state relations, and foreign translation.

Among the thirteen official disciplines, except for normal students, no enrollment is temporarily accepted.

All the students who apply for the exam temporarily enter the high school to study, including those younger brothers and younger sisters brought by themselves.

After the three-year study in high school is completed, the outstanding talents among them are selected, and then enter the university to study.

In high schools, apart from mathematics, metallurgy, agronomy, simple machinery, astronomy and medicine, there are no teachers to teach them, and there are also some preparatory college teachers who give guidance every ten days.

Including mechanics, chemistry, etc., Chen Jian and those gentlemen from the Academy will compile a set of detailed textbooks based on worldviews like the "New Textbook of Combination and Decomposition", and set a large number of exercises at the same time. Assess and select young people who enter high schools to study, and every ten days will spare one day to give lectures.

After the selection of senior high schools, students will enter different subjects to study according to their respective achievements and emphases.In name, it is study, basically it is to directly enter the front-line research, become the helper of those college students, and complete a series of purposeful experiments or technical improvements.

As long as you pass the assessment and enter a high school, you will be provided with food and housing, and a small amount of subsidies every month.The party property is still affordable, and it is considered absolutely worthwhile.

In name, as long as they pass the assessment, they can participate, but in reality it is not so fair.

The basic education preparations that started before sailing around the world are basically guaranteed to be admitted to high schools. Most of them are educated by Mr. Kaimeng and the batch-trained natural common sense gentlemen who are propagated by the ink-colored ideology or controlled by the ink party. The young man who came out.

As for the only normal students directly enrolled among the thirteen disciplines, they only teach mathematics and science similar to the nine-year compulsory education. The role of these normal students is to serve as incubators and prepare for the next batch of high school science and engineering talents. It is not required that they understand too much before entering high school, but at least they have a basic understanding of the world and a basic formation of their outlook on the world.

The enrollment of these normal students is very simple. A large number of young people have received similar education in the previous Lanxiang Academy, and they have also graduated in batches to become teachers of natural knowledge and arithmetic geometry in some schools controlled by the Mok Party. Just select the best ones and return them to the furnace.

The temporarily vacated university disciplines do not enroll students, but the masters of the disciplines are ready, and Chen Jian will come forward to invite them, and at the same time provide sufficient salary and support, and also provide a large number of almost free experimental equipment and some financial support for experimental applications—— Anyway, most of the experiments at this time will not cost a few dollars, but the effect is often significant.

In fact, the university "Mr." of many disciplines also carried out a learning process in the past three years. The only difference is that there is no teacher, but some strange ways that Chen Jian came up with to study.

Including some directional experimental attempts in the laboratory, the verification of some "conjectures" proposed by Chen Jian, the leaders of some practical technology research funded by capital, and so on.

There will be a selection of "Science Society" every year. Anyone who is selected into the "Science Society" can enjoy the same treatment as a university student, and can also go directly to the university to teach.

This has also given opportunities to many young people. Nowadays, seniority ranking is of little significance. With Chen Jian interfering here, seniority ranking in the past is useless. It is very likely that a young man in his 20s has discovered something that has not been discovered before.

Many directions are basically blank, and many disciplines have officially appeared within ten years, but fortunately, mechanics and mathematics are not separated, so you can find someone to play a guest role. After learning the most basic principles of mechanics, all that remains is to improve the entire system.

The subject of chemistry is a little simpler. Many people who were greatly influenced by Chen Jian and who wrote textbooks and [-] whys in Fujian County a few years ago were the first people in the circle he came into contact with. Their worldview on the subject of chemistry Basically fixed, the rest is to try to discover new things, measure old things, and improve new technologies according to this worldview.

Nautical surveying and astronomy are the easiest. They don’t need to be influenced by Chen Jian. The observatory is nearby, the telescope octant has also been formed, and the previous triangulation technique is also very mature, and some of them can be masters.

If it doesn't work, a group of young people called nautical science who have been studying mechanics and mathematics and writing artillery practical manuals from the previous nautical school can also directly bring this subject up temporarily.On the astronomy side, Chen Jian also has quite a few acquaintances. This face can still be sold. He gave the other party a big name in Prime Meridian, and now it is time to pay off the debt.

Natural history can be taken by Lin Xi for the time being, this reputation is enough, and for the rest, some people from all over the world will be invited to join.Political economy allows some of the first group of people in the party to come into contact with these foundations, and they are fully qualified.

There is no big problem in agronomy. There are hundreds of years of breeding foundation, plus the already proposed theory of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, and the genetic foundation disguised as yin and yang. It can be independent, and can even be combined with mathematics as soon as possible to form optimization.

Medicine is based on anatomy, blood typing, and microbiology, which has just begun to be studied after the emergence of the microscope. Then a group of doctors who saved lives and healed the wounded in the "International Association for Healing the Wounded" were transferred from Europe, and actually practiced with mercenaries and nobles from the two countries. When the surgeon comes back, at least a system of amputation can be established.

For example, in the two departments of history and state relations, and the Institute of Foreign Translation, the former needs to support a group of old scholars to teach young people, while the latter completely depends on young people to take the lead.Especially those who were the first to go to sea with Chen Jian, the first to stay in the Netherlands, and the first to be sent to Italy by the government. Counting these people, they can also bring back a batch from Europe to set up this shelf.

The preparatory work of Nanyang Public School was carried out with great fanfare. On the one hand, the whole city of Fujian was carrying out publicity, and on the other hand, Chen Jian kept coming forward to invite some well-known scholars.

At the same time, when the campus of the public school has not yet been established, preparations for the first high school examination in three months have already begun, and for some people, quite generous admission subsidies have been given.

When the rumor spread throughout Min County, Chen Jian added another fire to the limelight.

Together with many well-known scholars in Mincheng, he made an extremely publicized act for the preparatory work of Nanyang Public School. In the name of the Nanyang Public School Preparatory Committee, he opened four periodical publications.

"Nature and Science", "New Developments in Mathematics", "World Interest and Natural History", "Political and Economic Review".

These four publications are bound together with Nanyang Public School.

This is where the problem lies. Except for the "Political and Economic Review", the remaining three capital schools have similar publications. Although the titles are different, there are still overlaps in the content. A semi-obtrusive new system independent of the academy.

As the first issue, these pamphlets are quite rich in content, and many of them are written by Chen Jian, striving to become a hit.