Scrooge came to New York, not only to bring Dorothea to see Duck Castle, but he actually had one important thing to do. That is, here they will conduct the world's first radio communication experiment that crossed the ocean.

However, the so-called first time is not the first time at all. The real first experiment was quietly completed half a month ago. However, at that time, Scotchi was still in the south, and the real first experiment was not sure about the effect of the experiment, so he did not dare to find a reporter or advertise.

In fact, the first experiment achieved nearly perfect success, which proved that the idea of ​​communication through sky waves was completely feasible. The success of such long-distance communication naturally means that this new technology can enter the practical stage and can be established to make money.

In this case, the more sensational the technology is, the better. So as early as a week ago, Scrooge had someone to promote it in major newspapers. Therefore, on the day of the experiment, the originally scheduled experimental venues were already crowded with people, including staff from the MacDonald Consortium and reporters from various newspapers. Of course, at any time, the number of onlookers who did not know the truth was always the largest.

Because there were too many people, when Scrooge took Dorothea to the experimental site, he encountered a traffic jam. In the end, it took another half an hour to pass through the crowd and enter the experimental site.

"Why are there so many people?" Dorothea said, "Northerns are so interested in science?" Well, since seeing the gold coin swimming pool made using optical principles in Duck Castle, Dorothea has become interested in such fun things as science.

"Ah, Dorothea, this is easy to understand." Scrooge said, "You have to know that most of the so-called middle-class people have very boring spare time. For example, what can you do after get off work? The book is too expensive, and you can read it in one go. It's over and over again, but it's all over again. It's no longer interesting. Going to the theater to watch the show? That's not something that everyone can think of. In this way, there's something new and it's too common for a large group of people to watch."

At this time, Edison and Maxwell had arrived. Scrooge first walked over and said hello to Maxwell, and introduced his fiancée Dorothea to him.

However, Maxwell was not thinking about it, nor even in this experiment. Because he had known about the situation of the last experiment, he appeared here this time, completely advertising for the school.

"Oh, Scrooge, it's great to see you. Recently I encountered a difficult problem, about bold radiation. Hell, I don't think I have any clues. Maybe you have some ideas?" Maxwell said.

"Ah, Mr. Maxwell, I don't understand this problem completely. I can't help you in this aspect." Scrooge shook his head quickly.

"Ah, that's a pity." Maxwell took out an envelope and said to Scrooge, "Well, by the way, I know you're coming. I've written the questions and some of my thoughts here. You can go back and take a look. Maybe there will be inspiration?"

“那好吧.”史高治有点无奈的接过了信封.

...

"You seem to be a little afraid of Mr. Maxwell?" Dorothea whispered beside Scrooge when Maxwell walked away.

"Yes, you don't know how terrible Mr. Maxwell is. When I think of his whole bunch of mathematical deductions, I feel that my head is so big." Scrooge honestly admitted Dorothea's statement.

"But I think Mr. Maxwell should be a very kind person," said Dorothea.

At this time, Edison came over and greeted Scrooge: "Hello, Mr. MacDonald."

"Ah, Mr. Edison, you too, when will the experiment start?" asked Scrooge.

"Now, ah, look, Mr. MacDonald, it's already started." Edison pointed to the other side.

Scrooge looked over there and saw a man flew a huge centipede-shaped kite.

"What is this for?" Dorothea asked.

"This is to make the antenna position higher," Edison replied.

The kite with the launch antenna rose higher and higher, and rose to a height of hundreds of meters. At this time, the huge kite looked over from the ground, like a small black dot.

"The time is up, and they should be ready, too." Edison said, "Start sending signals there."

The so-called side of them, of course, refers to Britain across the Atlantic Ocean. There is also a group of people doing the same thing.

A telegrapher used a wireless telegraph machine to shoot a signal like this: "At first God created the world." This is the first sentence in "The Old Testament" Genesis. The reason for choosing this chapter was that Scrooge hoped to use it to show the great significance of this experiment to mankind.

According to the experimental setting, once the British side receives the signal, it will send the corresponding telegram to the United States. Sure enough, not long after, the telegraph machine here began to make a "beep" sound, which was a callback from the Atlantic Ocean. In almost the blink of an eye, the callback was translated: "The earth is empty and chaotic, with darkness on the abyss, and the spirit of God is running on the water."

"Call them again!" Scozhi ordered.

So the telegrapher took out the last preset telegram: "God said that if there is light, there will be light."

...

"God said, if there is light, there will be light."

On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, in Britain, a large group of people were also present. When the final signal was determined, people cheered.

"Your Highness, the cross-border communication experiment is very successful." Knight Lawrence reported to Prince Albert.

In the original history, Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert died of typhoid fever at the end of 1861. However, in this time and space, although the prince also contracted typhoid fever at the end of 1861, he escaped from the god of death by using a lot of sulfonamide. However, this experience of being on the verge of death still scared Prince Albert and his wife Queen Victoria. At the queen's strong request, Prince Albert reduced the price.

In the years, the Queen and his wife have rarely appeared in the public eye. In many cases, their son, Crown Prince Edward, later King Edward VII, appeared on their behalf. Prince Albert had an unusual love for science, and after hearing the news about this experiment, he was naturally very interested. However, he was not convenient to watch the experiment in person, so he sent Knight Lawrence to learn about the relevant situation.

"Lawrence, do you know the significance of this invention?" asked Prince Albert.

"This invention will bring great wealth," Lawrence said. "Real-time communication between the Atlantic will make commercial exchanges between the New World and the Old World more convenient. With this, our Mr. MacDonald doesn't know how much money we can make." The Lawrence Cavalier replied.

"Lawrence, since your niece got married to MacDonald's house, you've become more and more obsessed with money every day." Prince Albert laughed, "Whatever you think of, the first thing you think of is money."

"Haha." Lawrence also laughed, "Your Highness, you must understand that when people get older, they will love money more and more."

"No kidding," said Prince Albert. "Can you say what this communication means to our country? Well, Edward, what do you have to say?"

"Father, I think with this, our control over those overseas territories can be greatly strengthened," Prince Edward stood up and said. "Especially overseas territories like India are extremely important to the United Kingdom, but the news about what happened there will take a long time to pass back to Britain. When we make decisions, many times have changed. For example, the Indian rebellion back then. If we had such a technology at that time, as soon as the signs of rebellion appeared, we could react and suppress it."

"Well, that's right." Alber's prince nodded softly, "Is there any?"

Prince Edward thought for a while and said, "There is also the Navy. If this is on the navy's warships, we can mobilize the naval forces that are thousands of miles away at any time according to the new situation we have mastered. This is really useful..."

"Well, that's right. Lawrence, you should have understood the significance of this thing to the United Kingdom. Now, we must quickly get its patent..."

...

However, not everyone was inspired by this experiment. Among the onlookers, several people looked pale.

"Filder, what should I do?" asked a man.

"What else can we do? Our plan, our years of hard work, is over." The man named Field said in frustration. For many years, he had been working hard to lay a cable across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1858, he even successfully laid such a cable. At first, the cable did not disappoint him. A message about the price of gold from Britain could bring him as much as thousands of dollars (the trans-ocean telegraph cable sent messages very slowly, because it took one to two minutes to attenuate the signal to transmit a letter.) However, the good times did not last long, and after just over two weeks, the cable could no longer send any signal - the investigation showed that the voltage applied to allow the signal to transmit thousands of kilometers broke through the cable, making everything he had worked hard to waste.

But this did not defeat Field. He started from scratch again and worked for the new cable plan. He contacted scientists and engineers to solve one technical problem after another. Now, just as he was about to try again, such an experiment appeared. Yes, this was just an experiment. In order to communicate with the other side of the ocean, they had to use a kite to raise the antenna to a height of hundreds of meters. Obviously, it was a scheduled time for each message, so it was not realistic to raise the kite. However, Field understood that this was not a big problem, even if a tower hundreds of meters high was built directly from the ground.

It was much easier than laying a cable across the Atlantic Ocean. Moreover, the speed of wireless telegraph sending and receiving messages was much faster than his cable. Perhaps he should be glad that when the experiment was successful, his second cable had not yet started to be laid. However, no matter what, the money he invested would be rewarded. In fact, from the moment Scrooge's experiment was successful, he had become an unknown poor man. Field turned his head lonely, left the bustling crowd, and was about to go home. At this moment, a man stopped him.

"Are you Mr. Field who once laid a trans-ocean cable?" the man asked.

"Yes, what's the matter?" Phil asked.
Chapter completed!