Chapter 77 Steam Turbine
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Can you not grit your teeth?
When he first returned to Hawaii a few days ago, Li Mo thought Tesla would surprise himself. Unexpectedly, as soon as I came back, I saw him digging a well at the seaside with a large group of people. Of course, it's okay to dig a well. He actually put a steel pipe in it and said that he would carry out a resonance experiment!
Do it! This is not New York! It's Hawaii, Oahu!
Resonance!! If this causes earthquakes and tsunamis, it won't let people live!
Regardless of three, seven, twenty-one, Master Li stopped the experiment directly, pointed to Tesla's nose and scolded. Tesla, who was scolded for being confused, looked around and patted his head and replied, "Forget that this is an island!"
Li Mo directly hit the machine! This guy actually forgot where he was. If he hadn't just come back and happened to know the power of this experiment, maybe Oahu would have become a mud-digging island at this moment.
Before the aftermath of the resonance experiment subsided, this guy proposed to build a 20-meter tower at the farthest ends of the Hawaiian Islands, plus Midway Island, for long-range radio transmission experiments.
Radio! This is a good thing and must be supported, but Midway Island is still occupied by the United States, so Li Mo helped Tesla change the requirements, put the third transmission point in San Francisco, the United States, and asked Duan Fei there to find someone to take charge of this.
As long as the transmission tower can be built, Tesla doesn't care where it is! Anyway, the farther the distance, the better, so I agreed. But the tower has just been built for a few days? There will be more funds! Does this guy regard the young master as a sheep?
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"Five-megawatt steam turbine!"
"What the hell is that?" Du Dazhuang, who accompanied the young master to Li's electrical company, heard the young master shout before he could react from Tesla's words! The corners of the eyes are twitching! Like looking at a monster, looking at Tesla.
Can I not call? This guy asked the young master to come and proposed to build two steam power stations in Hawaii, which is expected to require 100,000 pounds for the project.
100,000 pounds is fine, and the power station powered by steam turbines is not new. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were so many such things. In later generations, there were even tens of single-machine power and hundreds of megawatts of steam turbines, but now it's 1892!
Parsons' ten-horsepower reactionary steam turbine only appeared in 1884. As for the megawatt class, it will be in 1897! Your boss opened his mouth and asked me to provide you with a five-megawatt steam turbine. The workers here didn't even understand the reciprocating steam engine, so they were going to get on the steam turbine?
I really think I'm an idiot!
Of course, Tesla is not unreasonable. If you say it, it's okay if you don't! Provide one million pounds of research and development funds, and he will do it himself!
"One million pounds! Go and rob the bank!"
Li Mo directly threw a middle finger to Tesla. He has seen a shameless person, and he has never seen such a shameless person! Climbing up along the pole, this girl buys land, builds a laboratory, builds a radio tower, buys equipment, buys materials, and spends money like running water. How dare you open your mouth now? Dare not to spend your money!
There is no door. The young master came from the steam turbine factory. Finally, there is a place to use it!" Master Li sang to Tian Chang.
After directly rejecting the high amount of research and development funds, Li Mo decided to make a self-reliance in person, saying that the steam turbine is Master Li's ability to take care of the family. The world is better than him has not yet been born! My own existence is the biggest bug in the world of ship power!
There are not many problems in the design. At worst, it's up to the gourd. But in manufacturing? Li Mo's head is big. The workers in his factory have just begun to produce reciprocating steam engines, or are they exploring the level of production, and now they are suddenly asked to get megawatt-class steam turbines?
Rejected?
Li Mo shook his head and looked at Tesla's eyes staring at him fiercely. He knew that this guy was absolutely serious. If he refused this time, maybe this guy would run away. What's more, once the steam power station is built, it will also be of great help to the research of new boilers and large marine steam turbines. Once the technical reserve is mature, he will build his own ship in the future. It can also be used.
After measuring the pros and cons, Li Mo finally gritted his teeth and agreed to Tesla conditionally. This condition was that Tesla took the lead and used the improved reciprocating steam engine as a power station. He personally took charge and set up a steam turbine research team, which was limited to three years. Three years later, he promised to take out a five-megawatt steam turbine for his Tesla boss!
Considering that Li Mo is just the beginning at present, Tesla nodded and agreed. After getting the 100,000 pounds of power station funds, this guy couldn't wait to start work with a lot of assistants. Li Mo returned to the room and finally found out the design drawings of the water pipe boiler and steam turbine when he was free. Paper.
Fortunately, Li Mo was an expert in steam turbines before crossing, and his memory was not as chaotic and lacking as a semi-traveler like Tesla. For him, an engineer who participated in the large-scale steam turbine project supporting the nuclear power plant in his previous life and had also contacted Russia's engineers for modern-level steam turbines, the five-megawatt steam turbine needs All you need to consider is how to turn the drawing into a physical object.
It's true! There was no problem with the design, and Li Mo even took only half a month to complete the preliminary design.
But he can't make it!
Because it is now 1892, not 1992, even in the United Kingdom with the best manufacturing technology, there is no ability to process megawatt-class steam turbines in terms of technology and technology, otherwise the dreadnought-class would not have been delayed until the beginning of the 20th century.
Fortunately, the agreement with Tesla is three years, and there is enough time. After completing the preliminary design, a team called Li's Power Laboratory was also established. In addition to dozens of Chinese students, Li Mo also asked Chen Ping to recruit dozens of experts in this field in Europe. Especially when Laval and Rong brothers also promised to come to Hawaii, he almost jumped into the sea.
These three people, the originators of the steam turbine industry, are now found by themselves. Can they be unhappy? However, Chen Ping didn't dare to knock on the door because his research institute was favored by the British navy.
But there are Parsons in the UK and Master Li in Hawaii!
With the recruitment of talents in the steam turbines in place, the Li's power laboratory has also been officially established. After these big-headed monsters from all over the world gathered together, they were not impressed, but first let Li Mo and the Chinese students really see what a hundred schools of thought is!
Spread out the white paper, and the sample was not drawn. As a result, the public said that the public was reasonable, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was reasonable. In the case that no one was convinced, the young and strong directly fought. An old man like Laval sprayed. In the end, even Tesla thought it was funny and came in and sprayed it. Two days of drooling!
This made Li Mo stunned. Is this the master figure he found?
What about the demeanor?
Fortunately, this is a steam turbine. The people in the world who surpassed Li Mo haven't traveled yet. When he took out his preliminary design drawings, all the voices were gone, and there were only old men who were so impressed that they wanted to hug him, old rabbits!
"The young master is not Lala!" After throwing the drawings to these people, Li Mo, who was so angry, took control of them again. It's not that he didn't want to get out the megawatt-class steam turbine as soon as possible, but that he wanted these people to play freely. After all, science can't always rely on golden fingers to pull out the seedlings. It needs to be down-to-earth step by step, especially in the manufacturing industry. He is even more powerless. ! So all he has to do is draw a frame and push it when he sees someone crooked, instead of doing everything by himself. It's strange that he doesn't die of fatigue.
What's more, Master Li has other big things to do at this moment.
When a big-headed monster in the power laboratory took Master Li's design to worship, he had already circled the United States and quietly came to Europe. This time, the purpose was not to enclosure and dig gold mines, but to see his own warship!
Roosevelt put too much pressure on Li Mo. Seeing Dole's wings gradually plump, it was false to say that he was not in a hurry, so he temporarily decided to come to England for a visit! What's more, according to Chen Ping's letter, the first two of the determination-class armored cruisers, the Resolution and Spirit have completed the sea test and will be delivered soon.
Delivery location, Portsmouth.
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