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

Nitrogen is almost an inexhaustible resource on this earth, and nitrogen fertilizer can be produced by mixing hydrogen, and the Austrian Empire will be able to feed a much larger population than it is now.

As for Dr. Nattler's talent in construction machinery, Franz suggested that the former change his career to become an engineer, and the other party naturally accepted it, so there was another big man in the field of construction machinery in Austria.

Franz also didn't want to limit the other party's research direction, and he could continue to improve the compressor if he wanted to. If he didn't want to, he could disclose the research results and hand them over to others for further research.

Mr. Babbage, who converted to the church, also encountered a bottleneck, that is, the speed of the steam engine, the upper limit is too low, even with a perfect design, it cannot achieve true perfection.

So the computer pioneer began to study Archduke Franz proposed a new power - electricity.Babbage collected a large amount of research data on electricity, and then began another furious dash in a new field.

Babbage directly skipped all the previous steps and prepared to develop an AC generator. Of course, this was just Franz's own feeling. After all, his own understanding of electricity was very limited, otherwise he would end up rubbing the generator himself.

Franz tried to get other electrical experts to interpret Babbage's ideas, but everyone else thought he was crazy.

On the other side, Ada (Babbage's assistant, Lord Byron's daughter.) is still perfecting the previous Trinity Analytical Engine.

This analysis machine has been able to achieve many leap-forward calculations, but the problem is also obvious, that is, it is too large and runs slowly, and there is a certain probability of self-explosion.

After Babbage went to study the generator, Babbage Jr. took over the mantle of the former and continued to preside over the research of the "Trinity" analytical engine.

However, the latter prefers small and delicate things compared to the former. He feels that as long as he can solve the problems of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, it is enough. After all, if the problems are too complicated, it is better to let those mathematicians and calculators do it.

In fact, after Franz developed the profession of computer, a large number of laboratories and institutions began to employ computer, which made this profession in short supply for a while.

In fact, the most ironic thing is that Babbage's Analytical Engine has never been able to beat those top mathematicians when performing complex operations.

In addition, the development of steelmaking technology has been smooth sailing. The basic converter steelmaking method used by the Austrian Empire at this time can well avoid the problem of high phosphorus content in the iron ore of the Austrian Empire.

As for the top-bottom compound blowing method, it was actually invented by the Austrians, so Franz's use of it now is not considered plagiarism.

Plattner and Bacher showed great interest in the gas liquefaction experiment, but what they wanted was not nitrogen, but oxygen, because in this way they could achieve the kind of pure oxygen blowing that Franz said. gas method.

In fact, although the top-bottom compound blowing method used at this time is advanced, 79% of the air contains useless impurities, which is undoubtedly a huge waste. If it can be replaced with pure oxygen, then no matter the output, quality, or speed can be increased.

In fact, their estimation is correct. The top-bottom double-blown oxygen furnace method is one of the most advanced steelmaking methods even today, and it does not have as many restrictions as the electric arc furnace steelmaking method.

Once this method is realized, its steel quality will completely surpass this era, and the speed is more than ten times that of the open hearth method.

Visiting new inventions and discussing new technologies should be Franz's greatest pastime at this time.

Someone has developed a new technology to extract mercury, which is useless to the Austrian Empire itself, but fortunately, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany has the largest mercury mine in Central Europe.

Franz could sell the technology to Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany, who gladly accepted the deal, since they all belonged to the same family.

Grand Duke Leopold II had no interest in ruling the country and rarely interfered in state affairs. This time he accepted the deal because of his family relationship.

But this is also his advantage, because he is more concerned about family affairs, so Grand Duke Leopold II was also one of the people who invested in Franz earlier.

In return, the Austrian Empire became the largest customer of Tuscan mercury at this time.

Mercury has a wide range of uses, including but not limited to the production of chlorine gas and caustic soda, acetic acid, acetone, etc.

Mercury compounds can be used to make leather and plant antifungal agents, wood preservatives, and antiseptic paints (painting of underwater parts of ships). Mercury is also required for military use.

Production of pigments for painting, cosmetics, printing, etc.At the same time, it is a traditional medicine. It is not a legend that European doctors "cure" all diseases by bloodletting and pouring mercury.

Bloodletting therapy and mercury therapy were once two prominent theories in European medical circles. Patients either died of blood loss and infection, or mercury poisoning blood was replaced by mercury.

However, mercury is not useless in medicine. It has certain effects in treating disinfection, diuresis, stomach problems, skin diseases, and sexually transmitted diseases.

In addition to these, mercury can also be used to make various dosimeters, such as barometers, thermometers, sphygmomanometers and the like.

At this time, its two main functions are actually producing chlorine and extracting gold.

Although mercury is almost no longer used in the production of chlorine gas in modern industry, the electricity was extremely scarce at that time, and the traditional mercury method was the best method when the electrolysis method could not be used.

Historically, the gold rush in California was extremely wasteful. Those gold diggers took away only large pieces of gold sand, and those gold particles and pyrite dispersed in the quartz were thrown away as garbage. It is a lot of gold particles remaining.

If Franz hadn't mastered the mining rights of the minerals, he would definitely open a recycling factory to buy the waste left over from gold prospectors after refining gold, as well as those ores that were considered unrefinable.

Don't underestimate this humble recycling work. Turning waste into treasure is no joke. Judging by the waste level at that time, maybe those gold diggers dug up more gold than Franz recycled.

In fact, Americans can still find the waste that was discarded by the gold diggers, which shows the great waste at that time.

However, the method of extracting gold from pyrite with mercury was not proposed until 1851, but this did not prevent Franz from using it in the slightest.

Probably the process is to let mercury and pyrite react first, remove the arsenic in it after roasting, then add chlorine gas to pass through the ore, then add hydrochloric acid, and pass through hydrogen sulfide to precipitate gold, and iron molecules remain in the solution .

With the emergence of new discoveries and new laws one after another, the iteration speed of physics and chemistry books used for teaching is also accelerating.

Franz had to hire a special person to keep up with the times to edit the new chemistry/physics application manual. After all, this kind of high-intensity and fast-paced work makes it neither decent nor realistic to use love to generate electricity.

But this is for experts and scholars. For students of basic education and secondary education, the basic common sense will not change, so there is no need to worry.