Chapter 2055 Drink of Victory (5)

Hearing the drums of the military band, Georgiana and Farron, who were walking on the beach, quickly stepped aside to make way for the advancing team.

At first the grenadiers did not recognize her, but then someone spotted her and whistled at her.

She showed a dry and twisted smile and did not wave.

In fact, Georgiana prefers the divine Bach to military music, but the rhythm played by the military drum is indeed very suitable for marching.

She and Faron watched these soldiers who were also going to "perform" together. In fact, Napoleon was not only busy with the artillery positions. He also visited the transport ship to make the materials stacked more scientifically and rationally so that more things could be loaded.

This is the personal experience of scholars who went to Egypt. At that time, the cultural relics were piled up randomly, resulting in an extremely small place for them to sleep.

How should I put it? If Bonaparte really planned to lead an army to land in Britain, he would also need to carry as much supplies as possible to avoid being left without supplies if his retreat was cut off.

Of course, it is also possible that the military camp can be packed up at any time and moved to the German region. Frederick the Great said that the British were like knocking on the door with a money bag. Practice has proved that among the three people: the king, the bishop and the rich, there are

Quite a few soldiers will choose gold coins and rich people.

However, the wallets of the rich are now a bit deflated. The key is that the income tax that supports military spending is now forced to stop.

In fact, the textile industry is not as important to the development of the United Kingdom as they imagined. The main products of the second industrial revolution: steel, organic chemistry, and electricity, none of them can keep up, even after other countries started the second industrial revolution.

, British factory owners do not intend to replace equipment due to cost issues. They rely too much on the "invisible hand".

It can be said that Britain does not necessarily "succeed" in the textile industry, but it must "fail" in the textile industry. In addition to the textile industry, Britain also has other industries, such as glass, which was used to build the Crystal Palace.

During the Renaissance, Venetian glass with extremely high transparency was a luxury product. Although it was an imitation of a crystal cup, the price was almost the same. Some glass with complex manufacturing techniques was even more expensive than crystal.

Although the Venetians restricted the craftsmen who made glass to one island, a glassmaker still came to England. A craftsman named Vercellini opened a glass workshop in London and obtained a monopoly.

By the 17th century, British craftsmen were able to produce high-quality plate glass, thick glass and mirrors.

Fresnel, who spent some time in the Royal Glass Factory, once thought about using British glass to make the kind of prism he wanted. An old master who was familiar with glass told him that British glass is made of lead, although it is colorless.

But it was full of impurities and couldn't achieve the effect he wanted.

It is true that ordinary glass cannot be used for optical experiments. Sir Isaac Newton used prisms to disperse white light into visible light of multiple colors. This is a phenomenon of refraction of light, while Fresnel's research is a phenomenon of polarization of light...

To put it simply, Fresnel needed glass with higher purity, and then he discovered the mineral bolognaite.

Bologna stone is a dense silver-white stone that was discovered by the Italian alchemist Cascariolo on Mount Paderno near Bologna in 1603. He used this stone to synthesize a substance and

When exposed to the sun during the day, it can glow at night. At first, people thought it was the legendary philosopher's stone that can turn base metals into gold.

Nick Flamel created the Philosopher's Stone in Paris. In order to verify whether Cascariolo really made the Philosopher's Stone, "many" alchemists experimented with the Bologna Stone, and then someone discovered that it

The refined glass is purer than the glass made of lead, which means it is a more precious substance than lead, which indirectly proves that it is the legendary philosopher's stone.

If the elixir is found, of course someone will swallow it. If you eat lead, you will definitely be poisoned. If you eat the Bologna stone, you will be fine, but it will not have the effect of immortality. Then this rumor will be self-defeating.

After the French Revolution, there were only a handful of alchemical notes that "survived". Even if they had not experienced the Revolution, alchemist's notes were very rare.

Fresnel's hometown is in Normandy. His father is an architect and his mother is a member of the Mérimée family. Fresnel's cousin Leonno Mérimée often travels between England and France, running errands and buying books for Fresnel.

This child has strong practical ability, but is not good at theory and expression. Over in the UK, there is a genius named Thomas Young. When he was 21 years old, he had completed a paper on the adjustment mechanism of the eyes and became

He is a member of the Royal Society and already has a doctorate in medicine from the University of Göttingen. He is also studying the polarization of light.

Isaac Newton was the recognized authority of this era, at least until the advent of quantum physics, and his classical mechanics was recognized. But both Fresnel and Thomas Young were trying to overturn Newton's treatises on optics, because Newton believed that light

It is composed of particles. They all believed that light is a wave like sound waves. In 1801, Thomas Young also conducted a double-slit interference experiment to demonstrate the nature of light.

Fresnel did not go back to Normandy just for fun, or to say that socializing was an extremely painful thing for him, but since he had scholarship money, he could use silver and brass instead of iron that easily rusts.

Slits, micrometers and other mechanical equipment can actually be made in Paris, but didn't he come with Turner and the others?

Farron knew many craftsmen, some of whom also made Lavoisier's experimental equipment. Fresnel did not know how much income his research results could bring. According to Farron's estimate, the annual profit of British glass

It can reach 630,000 pounds. This is profit, not total sales. The UK also levies taxes on glass raw materials every year, but not a word on cotton.

The tax encouraged glassmakers to cut corners when making colorless glass and add a lot of decoration to the finished product to hide this, but in fact the tax was not heavy, only 10 and one-half pence per pound. Of course no one would

The penny is cut in half to pay tax. The half-penny is used in tokens, which are produced by Bolton's mint. Bolton also has its own glass factory, which produces high-purity colorless glass, seasoned with silver.

DVDs and other luxuries.

Anyway, the formula of Fresnel cannot be leaked, and many glass bottles are used in perfume. Farron has been taking Fresnel with him recently.

In fact, Galileo just wanted a telescope at the beginning. In order to obtain colorless glass, he added grass alkali into Willis' glass, and then he had the world-famous Venetian glass.

Geniuses are sometimes like this, clumsy in some ways, like fragile glass.

Farron had met Watt. On the one hand, he came to France to visit an old friend, and on the other hand, he came to see his son, James Watt II, who had joined a radical revolutionary organization.

Bolton's connections have not yet expanded to France. Wilkinson does have a factory in France, but compared to Georgiana, he is just a private businessman. Who else can find someone faster than the police?

You can't arrest the person once you find him, which is why Watt gave Georgiana such rare earrings.

Of course, you need to use a good wine glass to drink good wine, just like a good horse needs a good saddle. As they chatted, they talked about the wide-mouthed glass for ice cream. In the past, the British glass was very popular in the Palace of Versailles, because it is not

A Venetian imitation, it will draw a golden thread on the rim of the cup, which looks very gorgeous.

Georgiana thought again of Minerva, who had turned a bird into a cup during her Transfiguration lessons.

Then she took the opportunity to chat about desserts.

Among the many flavors of ice cream, vanilla is the undoubted "king". People who like chocolate don't like vanilla as much as they do.

"Do you know the difference between natural vanilla and 3-methoxy-4-hydroxybenzaldehyde?" Georgiana asked perfumer Farron.

Farrong seemed confused by her question.

"I knew it." Georgiana looked at Farron and shook her head, "No one can understand the point of your joke, Severus."

"In fact, the fruit production rate of vanilla pods is very low, but the bees responsible for pollination are not diligent, and less than one-tenth of the flowers enjoy their services." Farron said, "So the vanilla pods bear very few fruits.

There is not much, and the price of vanilla has become very high. Even in the palace, only a few people can eat vanilla ice cream."

"Why not use artificial pollination?" Georgiana asked. "I mean use people instead of bees to pollinate the vanilla."

Farron seemed shocked.

Only then did Georgiana remember that if the weather was too cold and the bees were not active, people could take the place of the bees and pollinate the wheat so that there would be no empty shells.

The heavy wheat bends the waist, which means a good harvest.

"It seems I have found other work for the children." Georgiana smiled maliciously.

Ravenclaw ran to the observatory in the middle of the night to observe the stars. The wind blew until he shivered. How could he pollinate the vanilla in the greenhouse to keep warm? The flowers bloomed at three o'clock in the morning. The children in the orphanage did not need to twist cotton threads, they could use their little hands.

Pollinated the vanilla pods.

When they grow up, they can teach more people. Of course, they can also eat vanilla ice cream as a reward.

"Speaking of naturalists, do you know John Ray?" Farron asked.

"Where did we mention naturalists?" asked Georgiana.

"That's what I thought of. Do you know who he is?" Farron asked.

"Oh, I remember." Georgiana exclaimed, "He and Sir Isaac were from the same period."

"What a wonderful name to show God's wisdom from creation." Farron exclaimed, "Have you read that book?"

"Not yet," said Georgiana.

Farron turned around and waved to Fresnel, who took a book from his briefcase and gave it to him.

"Take it." Farron pushed the book to Georgiana. "I believe Newton learned a lot from this competitor. After all, he is the 'Light of Nature' as famous as Newton."
Chapter completed!