MTL - The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria’s Mandate of Heaven-v3 Chapter 49 Difference engine

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, the War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

"Mr. Babbage, with all due respect, you and your machine have a common problem-too bloated." The military's chief weapon manufacturing expert, Vincent Augustin, sighed.

In fact, this opinion represents the aspirations of all the experts present. But since almost all of them bought or ordered Babbage's Difference Engine in advance, it was naturally not easy to offend this stubborn wizard in person.

In fact, due to the emergence and application of the difference engine, many studies can be carried out smoothly, such as ballistics.

In the past, a ballistic analysis required 20 long-term trained actuaries and at least 10 hours a day, and it took as long as a year to complete.

Now with the Difference Engine, the time for the job was reduced to just two months. Of course, because the weapons of this era are still not standard, the accuracy of calculation is limited, and it is often ridiculed as a useless subject.

And this time Babbage's masterpiece is not the Difference Engine, but the Analytical Engine he developed. This huge machine, composed of 37,000 parts, is 3.5 meters high and weighs five tons. If the steam power plant next to it is included, the total weight may be close to ten tons.

"Mr. Augustine, do you know that there is a saying that "big guys have great wisdom" For example, since my stomach can hold infinite wisdom, it can as well. Also, please don't ignore my Assistant Miss Ada."

No one likes others to make fun of their body, and Babbage is no exception; of course, no one wants to say that their baby is bad, unless the sun rises from the west one day.

"In fact, from the perspective of the structure of physiological analysis, your wisdom should be in your brain, not in your stomach. The longest organ in your stomach is called the large intestine, which contains feces."

Vincent Augustin sarcastically. This person is a typical conservative. He neither likes Babbage, nor can he accept that a woman is engaged in scientific research. In private, he even called Mrs. Ada Babbage's mistress.

But Babbage didn't take the other party's ridicule to heart at all, but concentrated on explaining his creation to the experts present.

"Gentlemen, are you still satisfied with the simple four arithmetic operations and the most basic function calculations?"

In fact, Babbage's difference engine can already run simple functions, so it has attracted the attention of the British government. This invention was a major breakthrough for navigation and astronomy at the time.

However, since the British machinery manufacturing industry at that time could not meet Babbage's requirements, it could only be left to fend for itself in the end.

The same important part may require a dozen masters and dozens of processes in the British factory. After several days and costing tens of pounds, there is no guarantee that the error will be less than one thousandth.

In Austria at this time, it only takes a few hours and dozens of florins to make.

In the field of small-scale parts manufacturing, the gap between the two sides can be widened to nearly a hundred times, because it is impossible for the British to develop a production line for this small batch of parts, while Austria only needs to manufacture a simple mold to achieve mass production .

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Closer to home, Babbage's "science class" is still going on, but the other people present don't seem to be infected by his excitement and excitement.

So, he asked his assistant Mrs. Ada to prepare a very complicated and cumbersome math problem, and he planned to give the experts present five minutes to calculate in advance, and he would do it himself after five minutes.

Embarrassingly, someone figured out the correct answer in less than a minute. Five minutes passed, and half of the people at the scene had already handed in satisfactory answers.

Vincent Augustin looked at Babbage with great interest. Although he himself could not figure out the answer, this did not prevent him from gloating and waiting for the other party to make a fool of himself.

The latter, on the other hand, has long been used to such embarrassing and deliberately difficult scenes, so he remained completely unmoved and said to himself,

"Ladies and gentlemen, as long as I press this switch, a miracle will happen. At that time, a set of 25 completely accurate numbers will be clearly displayed in front of your eyes."

At this time, the scientific research "giant" who weighed more than 220 pounds of gold held the lever, and then exchanged glances with his assistant Mrs. Ada, who gave him a positive look.

At this moment, it seemed that everything around him was still. Babbage could not hear the noise in his heart, and only had his own analytical engine in his eyes.

"Witness the miracle!" Babbage pulled down the lever, and with the roar of the steam engine, the gears began to move at high speed.

Babbage looked at his watch, and a minute passed, which was the theoretical calculation time, he shouted to the audience.

"Welcome to the future!"

Just listening to the sound of "boom!", the Royal Women's Academy in Vienna had to suspend classes for a week due to safety concerns...

Later, according to statistics, a total of more than 20 professors were sent to the Vienna General Hospital. Fortunately, no casualties were caused.

Of course, the most seriously injured were Babbage himself and Mrs. Ada who were closest to the center of the explosion. Fortunately, the fat on their bodies acted as a buffer, and they only suffered a few abrasions and fractures.

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The injuries suffered by the rest of the wounded are not serious, and considering that these "high-risk people" often visit the hospital, it is important to do an experiment of burning a few strands of hair and experience for yourself what a broken head is like. routine.

At this time, Vincent Augustine, who was injured by a flying part, still taunted the two wrapped in rice dumplings even though he was on crutches.

"I sincerely invite you to join my weapons development department. In the future, you will take your invention to France for a seminar and blow up all the French scientists. You will be loyal to the country..."

Babbage still held his head high, ignoring the other party's ridicule, and thought to himself, "I am an Englishman~www.novelbuddy.com~ Vincent Augustine saw the other party was speechless, and felt that it was a big fight. As if winning a battle, he left on crutches, but unfortunately, he just collided head-on with a group of little lolitas, and was submerged in the sea of ​​lolitas before he could scream.

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"What are you?"

Babbage looked at the little girls with small baskets in front of him, a little moved and a little puzzled.

"Teacher! We support you! You must continue your research!"

"Yes, teacher, we also brought food!"

"Yeah, I made it myself!"

"Teacher, come on!"

"Teacher, come on!"

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There were even little lolis who brought Florin to show their sincerity. Apparently these kids weren't totally ignorant brats.

It's just that they don't show these to people in person, but choose to press the money under the food and hide it in the basket.

Babbage and Ada were deeply moved. They never expected that their hard work and noisy work would be supported by so many people, and they couldn't help but shed tears of excitement.

Whenever they feel that the research cannot continue in the future, they will always think of what happened today, and then they will return to their posts full of motivation.

What they didn't know was that the main reason these lolis supported them was that they wanted more absenteeism time, and these two teachers had accomplished what they never dared to do—bombing up the school.