Chapter 507 What kind of high-tech is a mere clock?
This understanding of Wu Meiniang and Ma Zhou is not isolated. In fact, it is almost the consensus of the disciples and master craftsmen around Li Sheng.
Anyone who has seen the simple clock structure diagram drawn by Li Sheng that night will know how complicated this thing is.
Although Li Sheng seems to be particularly concerned about the craftsmanship of the steel mill and whether the finished product can meet the standards.
This made everyone a little surprised. Is the production of parts...necessary to be so precise?
This is not making jewelry, why should it be so delicate?
On the contrary...
Li Sheng's schematic diagram of the clock structure aroused considerable discussion among everyone at the shipyard.
Because this thing is really... no one can understand it except Li Sheng.
Even if it was brought by Li Sheng, the students of Chengxi Academy could get a rough idea.
It can be pointed out without being precise or confident that some structures are used in it. These structures were mentioned by Li Sheng when he was in the academy, or what kind of principles are used in certain structures. This principle is because...
But anyway.
In the shipyard, Li Sheng's group of people could be recognized to the sky by scale claws. As for the entire clock operation system, absolutely no one can describe it.
This thing is nothing but a special piece of black technology!
For this reason, both Wu Meiniang and Ma Zhou were very concerned about this.
However, when the two asked about it, Li Sheng was stunned for a while, then sat in the carriage... but couldn't help but let out a sigh.
"well……"
"Sir, why..."
"Holy Lord, what's wrong?"
When the two asked this question, Li Sheng shook his head with regret.
What should I say about this?
In later generations, in the Manhattan Project, originally a project to create atoms, computers were definitely the protagonists. Without the computing power of the Los Alamos Center, there was no telling when this project would be completed.
Later, all industrial projects were inseparable from computers.
The progress of information technology will inevitably promote the progress of thinking methods and will inevitably bring about great development of technology.
but……
In China, although people always say that God bless China, these words are more like begging and lamenting than a pretense or a wish.
After the invention of paper, image communication that could span huge geographical gaps, spread easily, and be read repeatedly was born in this world.
Logically speaking, China should be the starting point of the industrial revolution.
But since the fall of the Han Dynasty, China has been sinking for hundreds of years.
The most advanced information technology has become nothing more than a toy for the Sima family to engage in Jian'an literature.
Later, we finally reached the Tang Dynasty, but...
The land equalization system that Li Er devoted his whole life to promoting and developing quickly deteriorated and collapsed after Li Er's death. Gradually, the Tang Dynasty became a chaotic place dominated by powerful men.
If those who master technology do not master resources, the industrial revolution will naturally be out of the question.
This made Li Sheng sigh, Mader China is indeed...fate is really bad.
If China's fortunes were good, steam engines should have appeared at least two hundred years ago, and now we have entered an era where cars are everywhere.
How can a mere clock be considered high-tech?
However, Li Sheng didn't say much about these things, and Ma Zhou and Wu Meiniang probably couldn't understand them either.
He just said, "This thing is not as complicated as you think, it is just the most superficial mechanical system."
When Li Sheng said this, Ma Zhou and Wu Meiniang were stunned.
Damn, what a guy...
This stuff is still superficial. I'm afraid, Shenghou, your joke is a bit...
The two of them were stunned, and Li Sheng smiled.
"You really shouldn't be surprised by this. When primary schools are built everywhere in Datang, students everywhere will be able to decipher these systems after reaching high school at most. It won't be difficult in the first place. Probably... that is, they will learn
At the age of seventeen or eighteen, everyone can design their own."
Li Sheng is not exaggerating. Of course, high school students will not be able to make the kind of military and industrial timers of later generations.
But based on the principle of a single pendulum, it is not difficult to make an early pendulum clock.
Even in later generations, junior high school students in many schools can do it, let alone high school students.
Even though Li Sheng said so...
But it doesn’t matter whether it’s Ma Zhou or Wu Meiniang.
After all, things are still undecided now, and everything is hard to say.
Who knows what dangers may arise along the way...
No matter how you look at the schematic diagram of the clock structure, it is extremely complicated.
Even now they feel dizzy just thinking about it.
The complexity of that thing is beyond the reach of human beings.
But what I saw at that time was just a schematic diagram of the structure, not a structural diagram.
Strict drawings, the kind that Li Sheng used in daily work, Wu Meiniang and Ma Zhou have all seen before. They will only be more rigorous and more complicated at the same time!
This kind of thing is probably not simple even if you think about it...
But since Li Sheng said this, everyone was just running around to do things for Li Sheng, so they had no choice but to listen to it. Of course, they still knew in their hearts that they couldn't be too optimistic.
but……
This strange psychological preparation quickly collapsed.
Because after retrieving the parts, it was still noon.
Everyone thought that the assembly would only start the next day and would last at least a month.
However, as soon as the carriage arrived at the shipyard that day, Li Sheng took a pile of parts and went to retreat in the backyard of his small yard.
Of course, this process...
Wu Meiniang and everyone else subconsciously thought that Li Sheng was making preparations.
Intense preparations!
After all, the official start is tomorrow. It is impossible for others to handle this matter, and of course Li Sheng will need help.
Ma Zhou even chatted with his colleagues in private and told others about it. They even reviewed the lessons from Chengxi Academy together...
However, this afternoon, it was not time for dinner yet.
Just over an hour passed...
Li Sheng's maid, Yang Yuhuan, finished delivering the drinks to Li Sheng.
After coming out of the backyard, I happened to meet Wu Meiniang.
As soon as the two chatted, Wu Meiniang immediately realized that something was wrong.
"No, sister...are you sure you saw a sundial with hands?"
Wu Meiniang's expression was extremely surprised.
Although "a sundial with hands" sounds a bit weird, after all, which sundial doesn't have hands, but...
Yang Yuhuan described this strange "sundial", and Wu Meiniang understood it immediately.
The sundial Yang Yuhuan talked about is definitely not a real sundial.
In the backyard, Li Sheng finished his work and was walking around observing and resting...
At this moment, Yang Yuhuan brought drinks in and saw this "sundial". Could this be the "sundial" that most people call it?
There is no doubt that this is not a primitive sundial at all, but...
