The videos I watched became popular in ancient times

Chapter 224 Opening a new era of human civilization

After seeing the high-speed rail of later generations, ancient people from all dynasties still remember it all night long until now.

What everyone is amazed by is not only the speed of high-speed rail, but also the large carrying capacity of high-speed rail.

The emperors of various dynasties were very eager to get high-speed rail. They clearly realized that if their dynasty could also have high-speed rail, it would undoubtedly be of huge benefit to the court.

They also know that high-speed rail is probably impossible, but they can still look forward to the steam train the anchor mentioned.

Although the steam train may not be as good as the high-speed train, it is the best choice for them. After all, the anchor said that they have a high probability of manufacturing it.

The anchor said that he was going to show everyone a video about steam trains this morning, so ancient people from all dynasties kept watching the movement of the sky.

Even the emperors of various dynasties had arranged for skilled craftsmen to wait aside to record all the relevant details of the steam train.

After Su Chen returned home, she had a good sleep.

If he hadn't still remembered what he promised to the emperors of each dynasty, he would have really wanted to sleep until noon and then get up again.

I think steam trains should be the prototype of high-speed trains. It is no problem to say that they have changed the way people travel, but to say that they have changed the world is a bit too much.

He prepared two videos, one was a steam train video that he promised everyone to watch, and the other was a video related to steam engines.

His parents were afraid that Watt would follow in his elder brother's footsteps, so they treated him as a treasure and a little darling since he was a child.

Watt's father had no choice but to sell his property and admit defeat, which caused Watt's family's family situation to go from basically rich to basically poor.

Being born with the mission of changing the world, this praise was so great that it made him envious.

Thinking that the emperors of various dynasties were waiting impatiently, Su Chen played the video that he had found for the ancients of each dynasty to watch.

But no matter how powerful the steam train is, it seems that it is not enough to deserve the praise of changing the world.

His parents cherished this little life very much, and his father named him James Watt because he believed that people named James were great people.

Qianlong: What a coincidence. Watt was born in the year I ascended the throne.

His parents also hope that Watt can become a high-level intellectual or scholar, so as to honor his ancestors.

The death of his mother, who once loved him most, the death of his younger brother, and the drastic changes in his family made Watt seem to grow up overnight.

When watching adults repair things, he would often ask this and that, fumbling here and there, just like a walking mind with a hundred thousand whys.

Influenced by his father's workshop, Watt loved playing with machinery since he was a child and often played in his father's workshop.

His parents' love for Watt was even a little too much, because they couldn't bear Watt going to school in the wind and rain. His mother, who was born in an aristocratic family, taught Watt how to read and write at home, and his father, who ran a shipbuilding workshop, taught Watt mathematics. In this way, Watt completed his enlightenment at home. educate.

He was originally not interested in these industrial products, thinking they were just fancy techniques.

The excessive care made Watt develop an introverted, timid and sentimental character.

Watt, who graduated from primary school at the age of thirteen, was admitted to the then city's key middle school with excellent results.

This may be due to the poor living conditions in England in the eighteenth century.

If he guessed correctly, this Watt was the man who invented the steam train.

Su Chen hoped that the emperors of various dynasties would realize the importance of steam engines after watching the video of steam engines, and then organize personnel to develop steam engines.

The first is Watt’s father. He ran a cargo ship that traveled to and from the Americas. It was torn into pieces due to a storm. As the owner of the ship, he had to compensate for the loss of the cargo and pensions for the death of the crew.

When Watt was eight years old, he finally entered school.

Just before Watt graduated from middle school, bad luck once again visited the family, and it was a large-scale series of bad luck.

However, the praise of Watt in the video made him feel very uncomfortable. Even the great Qing Emperor did not receive such praise.

After dealing with his mother's funeral, Watt proposed to give up his plan to go to college. Like many young people nowadays, he wanted to go to a big city to try his luck, learn a trade, and then return to inherit his father's workshop. 】

It was precisely because of the steam engine that a series of industrial machinery such as steam trains came into existence, which in turn kicked off the first industrial revolution.

If things develop like this, then mankind's first industrial revolution may be delayed for a long time.

He hoped to use the steam engine as an opportunity to lead all dynasties and generations to launch the industrial revolution.

In middle school, Little Watt's intelligence was fully developed.

[On January 1736, 1, in the home of a shipbuilder in Greenock, England, a baby boy was born with the mission of changing the world.

Although Watt is the sixth child, he is actually the eldest, because the four brothers and one sister before him all died when they were very young.

At that time, Britain vigorously developed industry, the urban population increased rapidly, diseases were prevalent, and plagues continued.

Watt's mother later gave birth to a younger brother and a younger sister, and they both grew up healthy.

Secondly, Watt's younger brother John also died in this shipwreck. This made Watt's mother, who had already lost her son five times, unable to bear the blow anymore, and began to become crazy and ill. Finally, in 1753, she died. passed away.

Especially in mathematics, he always dominated the rankings in the school. The principal was full of praise for his achievements and believed that he would definitely be admitted to college.

This shows how important the steam engine is to the development of an era.

When they were in school, every student had learned that Watt improved the steam engine, which brought mankind into the first industrial revolution and greatly accelerated the development of human science and technology.

It is no exaggeration to say that the steam engine opened a new era of human civilization.

Watt's birth brought long-lost happiness to this wealthy but unfortunate family.

Watt has lived tenaciously since he was a child. Although he will not die young, he is still very fragile.

It can be said that Watt's birth brought with it a halo of luck, which drove away the family's bad luck and brought great changes to the world.

But he learned that the Western countries relied on these strange skills to defeat the Qing Dynasty, and the anchor showed him the scenes of future generations through live broadcast.

It made him deeply understand that if he wanted to avoid history repeating the same mistakes, he must learn from the barbarians to gain skills to control the barbarians, and learn from the enemy's excellent things to strengthen himself.

So he watched this video very carefully and wanted to know how Watt developed the steam train step by step.

[In this way, in 1754, 18-year-old Watt arrived in Glasgow, the city that changed his life.

It is a pity that such a famous city cannot find a craftsman qualified to be his master.

But this is not that fate fooled Watt again, but that it once again gave Watt a different opportunity.

One of Watt's distant cousins ​​was a professor at the University of Glasgow. Through this relationship, Watt got to know a group of the most knowledgeable professors in the world at that time who influenced his life.

These old professors also liked the smart and clever Watt very much. One of the physics professors was also Watt's old friend Dr. Dick, who encouraged and introduced Watt to London, the center of the world at that time.

Because there are the best craftsmen in the world there, and you can definitely learn the craft there.

In May 1755, with his father's permission, Watt took the money and rode to London.

Watt suffered a lot when he first arrived in London because he was not accustomed to it. Almost all famous manufacturers rejected him on the grounds that Watt had not formally studied and was too old to be an apprentice.

In fact, the real reason is that various guilds in London clearly stipulate that any outsider, whether he is a foreigner or an Englishman, as long as he is not a Londoner, cannot join the Instrument Manufacturers Guild, nor is he allowed to be an apprentice in this guild. They They just want to monopolize and make high profits for themselves.

After Watt's unremitting efforts, he impressed the instrument manufacturer John Morgan with his sincere attitude.

Morgan left Watt as an apprentice for one year, on the condition that he would pay 20 pence per month for tuition and do some work for free for him. Watt readily agreed.

Morgan was a scholar-craftsman, a famous mathematician in London at the time, and a superb craftsman with operational skills.

It is precisely because of Morgan's fame that he has enough courage and confidence to dare to defy the sacred regulations of the industry.

During his apprenticeship in London, Watt arranged a very tight pace for his life. He was determined to learn the skills that others learned in a few years, and he must learn them in a year.

Watt also knew that the living expenses his father mailed were hard-earned, and he always made careful calculations in life.

I work from early morning to evening every day, and I often return to my dormitory exhausted without rest.

He was conscientious, worked hard, and with the guidance of famous teachers and his original skills, his skills improved rapidly.

A year later, Watt, who was in his prime, embarked on the long road back to Scotland with 20 pounds of metal materials and some of his own gadgets to meet new life challenges. 】

Ying Zheng was stunned as he watched Watt's experience. He now somewhat understood why Watt was the one who developed the steam train.

Traveling alone to distant places at a young age, this adventurous spirit is not something that ordinary young people can match.

Just by relying on this perseverance, Watt can achieve a lot of achievements, not to mention that Watt is also a smart person.

Being praised by a group of the most knowledgeable professors in the world at that time was enough to show Watt's wit and intelligence.

Not to mention that Watt went to London to be an apprentice and learned skills that took others years to learn in just one year.

In all of this, one can see Watt's intelligence.

Smart people can become talented through self-study even if they do not go to university for further studies.

Perhaps it was such smart people who could develop the steam train that changed the world.

He hoped that Great Qin could also have such smart talents, so that Great Qin could build a steam train as soon as possible.

Just thinking about the steam train running on the railway tracks extending in all directions in Daqin, he couldn't help but feel proud and his blood boiled.

[Watt, who returned to his hometown, met his father who had been away for a year and many old college friends, especially Dr. Dick, a helpful mentor.

At this time, God prepared a test for Watt who had returned from school. A wealthy businessman donated a batch of astronomical instruments to the University of Glasgow.

However, poor shipping storage resulted in damage, and the cleaning and repair work was left to Watt under the operation of Dr. Dick.

After two months of hard work, Watt cleaned the astronomical instruments one by one and repaired the damaged ones one by one.

For Watt's perfect grades, the school gave him five pounds, a considerable sum of money at the time.

Watt became a well-known figure in the school because of the repairs he completed on these instruments.

Everyone knows that he is a craftsman who has apprenticed with famous teachers in London. Any school with science and engineering equipment needs such talents.

Coupled with the help of his professor friends, the University of Glasgow agreed to give him a studio in the school and gave him the title of university data instrument maker, becoming a non-staff employee of the university.

But university work was intermittent, so in 1759 Watt partnered with an architect to open a shop that engaged in instrument making and repair business.

The architect provided the capital, and Watt was responsible for the manufacture, repair, and sale of the instruments.

And it was in this store that Watt met a person who would change his life and the world in the future.

Watt had many friends at Glasgow University, including a man named Robinson.

He is a talented young man and an enthusiastic researcher.

One day he came to the shop and said to Watt, "I have a special business to talk to you about."

"what is it then?"

"I want to use steam to propel the car."

When Watt heard this idea, which was unbelievable at the time, his eyes immediately opened wide.

Although the idea of ​​using steam to propel a car is surprising, steam pumps have already existed for pumping water.

The principles of the cars were the same. At that time, the two felt that there was nothing they could not accomplish as long as they cooperated, so the two of them chatted until late at night. 】

Liu Che: Using steam to propel the car, I think this should be the beginning of the idea of ​​a steam train.

At this moment, he had to admire Watt.

Just by relying on the idea of ​​​​steam-driven cars, you can develop steam trains that are popular all over the world.

Steam is very common in daily life, even he often sees it, but he has never paid attention to the use of steam.

Generally, making tea or boiling water will produce steaming steam.

He now recalled the scene of steam smoke and wanted to find out the principle of steam propelling trains.

But he thought carefully for a long time and found nothing special.

Steam is just steam, like smoke, soft and has no power at all.

If someone had said in the past that steam could be used to drive a car, he would not have believed it.

But now that Watt finally built a steam train powered by steam, it shows that steam can indeed be used to propel the car.

He was extremely confused and couldn't figure out the key. He couldn't understand how steam could push the car to move.

It was precisely because he couldn't figure it out that he admired Watt so much.

But it doesn't matter if he doesn't understand the mystery of steam. The most important thing is that a skilled craftsman can understand it.

Thinking of this, he lowered his head and looked at the master craftsmen gathered under the stage.

Seeing the thoughtful faces of each of the master craftsmen, as if they were thinking about the key, he nodded with satisfaction.

These master craftsmen are the most skilled craftsmen in Han Dynasty. In order for Da Han to develop a steam train as soon as possible, he specially called these master craftsmen here.

[But just when they were about to work together to make a big difference, Robinson had some minor accidents. He graduated and was going to serve in the Navy.

In desperation, Watt had no choice but to continue the research on steam machinery alone. If he wanted to truly improve the shortcomings of his predecessors, the most effective way was to first understand the research results of his predecessors. Watt understood this deeply.

Therefore, the first thing he needs to understand is naturally the origin of steam machinery.

As early as the 17th century, Europeans had realized the benefits of steam as power and achieved some research results.

But early steam engines were extremely inefficient. Even the most advanced Newcomen steam engine at the time had a utilization rate of only 0.5%.

With the gradual unfolding of the British Industrial Revolution, the development of industries powered by natural forces was limited, and society urgently needed a universal mechanical power that transcended natural forces.

It was against this background that Watt began his own exploration of steam engines based on previous research.

The first person to use the power of steam was named Babaan, and his device was very simple.

But the problem is very obvious, that is, the machine that uses steam is very leaky, resulting in unsatisfactory results.

I originally wanted to use it to pump out the accumulated water in the coal mine tunnels, but it turned out that its speed was too slow, and the water pumped out was not as fast as it came in, so it could not be used at all.

At that time, the biggest worry in the British mining industry was the drainage problem in the mines. Miners often drowned while working.

Watt also learned from the information that a man named Newcomen had improved Baba's machine.

And there happens to be a model of the Newcomen steam engine in the herbarium of the University of Glasgow.

It just so happened that this model was in disrepair and wanted someone to repair it, and it happened that no one had repaired it until today. It happened that Watt was interested in repairing it, so it was natural for Watt to accept the repair task.

Having such a model is much more valuable than just reading the data to understand the original thing. By reading the data and deconstructing the model, he obtained valuable first-hand information about the steam engine that was the most advanced at the time. 】

Li Shimin: Huh? Aren’t you studying steam trains? How did it become research on steam engines?

When Watt came out before, he always thought that Watt was the inventor of the steam train.

After all, the anchor said that he would play a video about steam trains, so as soon as Watt came out, he naturally thought that this video was about Watt's invention of steam trains.

But it wasn't until now that he suddenly realized that he seemed to have made a mistake.

Watt was not the inventor of the steam train, but the inventor of the steam engine.

No, more strictly speaking, the steam engine has been invented a long time ago.

Watt was not the one who invented the steam engine, but the one who improved it.

He was a little skeptical that the host had played the wrong video, but he immediately realized what was going on.

Judging from the names alone, there is an inevitable connection between steam engines and steam trains.

If he guessed correctly, the most important device of the steam train is the steam engine.

It can be seen from the video that the steam engine should be a machine specially designed to provide power.

Put it this way, everything makes sense.

The power source of the steam train is the steam engine. The steam engine is the most critical. There is nothing wrong with the anchor showing everyone the video of the steam engine.

Judging from the situation in the video, Watt wanted to study steam engines. The main purpose is to solve the drainage problem of coal mines, and to pump the accumulated water in coal mines outside through steam engines.

The drainage problem in the British mining industry is also a problem in their Datang mining industry.

Ever since he got the world map he bought from the anchor, he has ordered large-scale mining of mineral resources across the country.

According to the current situation reported by officials, the problem of water accumulation in mine pits is a common situation, which greatly affects miners' mining of ores.

He was still worried about this at first, but now he is fine and the problem will be solved immediately.

With the steam engine developed by Watt, the drainage problem in the mine can be easily solved, and Datang's mining of ores will also speed up.

[Watt conducted many experiments on steam pressure at the University of Glasgow to study the relationship between steam density, pressure and temperature.

When Watt was repairing the internal model of the Newcomen steam engine, he finally discovered the cause of this mechanical inefficiency.

It turns out that every time the piston moves, the steam in the cylinder needs to be condensed and then heated, so 80% of the heat in the steam is consumed.

At the same time, the process of condensation and reheating also reduces the vacuum degree, thereby affecting the performance of the machine.

After figuring this out, his next work direction became clear.

By analyzing Watt, we understand what the problem is with this steam engine, but how to solve it?

Watt was out of ideas for a long time. Sometimes solving a problem requires a flash of inspiration during a break.

In 1765, because the school was not allowed to work on weekends, Watt rarely left his workbench and went for a walk.

As he walked to the theater, an idea came to Watt's mind.

Since steam is an invisible object, it can expand and compress.

Therefore, wherever there is a vacuum, it penetrates everywhere.

If there is a passage between the cylinder and the exhaust chamber, the steam will rush into the exhaust chamber and may condense there without cooling the cylinder.

If you use a nozzle like that on a Newcomen engine, you can solve the problem of condensing steam and water injection.

In such a simple walk, Watt's major idea was formed.

Although he had made important discoveries, the steam engine was no longer a toy.

But Watt soon discovered a more fatal problem, that is, these are still just a theory. He has no money to implement it and he is short of money.

If science is the mother of invention, then capital should be the father of invention. 】

Yang Jian: Quick, record all those drawings, be sure to be careful.

When the video introduces Watt's research on steam engines, several drawings of the Newcomen steam engine appear, and each part is clearly marked.

He knew the importance of these drawings, so he immediately asked the officials from the Ministry of Works who had been waiting for a long time to quickly record them.

Although these drawings are only of the Newcomen steam engine, they are not drawings of the steam engine studied by Watt.

But these drawings are equally important. After all, Watt improved the steam engine that changed the world based on these drawings.

He called enough officials from the Ministry of Industry, and with everyone's concerted efforts, the exact same drawings were quickly drawn.

Yang Jian took the drawings presented by everyone. They were almost the same as what he had just seen, and then he nodded with satisfaction.

But then he realized why the anchor focused on asking emperors of various dynasties to pay attention to steam trains.

He looked at the information reported by officials and found that just to develop a steam engine, the amount of money invested was not a small amount.

And this is just the Newcomen steam engine, not the steam engine improved by Watt, nor the steam train that their emperor longed to have.

According to his guess, steam trains would require a huge investment of manpower, material and financial resources, and only emperors of various dynasties could develop steam trains.

[Watt was so focused on his invention that he neglected business in the store, and all the money he made on the instrument was used up.

Watt had no choice but to borrow 1000 pounds from his friend Dr. Dick, but it was still far from enough for research expenses, and a huge amount of money was needed.

Facts have proved that as long as there are good ideas, capital is not stingy.

Watt's friend Dr. Dick introduced Watt to Robock, the founder of a factory with strong capital.

At this time, he happened to be engaged in coal mining, so he was very concerned about the drainage problem in the coal pit.

With the help of Dr. Dick, Robock established a cooperative relationship with Watt.

Watt happily began to experiment with the new model, and the new model was soon successfully tested.

In August of that year, Watt went to London to apply for a patent. The patent for Watt's steam engine was approved in 1769, when Watt was already thirty-three years old.

From the very beginning of the experiment, it took nearly ten years.

But the problem was far from over. Watt needed a mature prototype.

It took six months for Watt to finally complete the No. 1 machine.

However, the No. 1 engine was not successful because the condenser function did not meet the design expectations. This steam engine had problems with the tightness of the piston and the cylinder, which made Watt very discouraged.

His friend Robinson wrote to encourage him. The fault of this failure is not your invention. It is entirely due to the poor manufacturing technology of the factory. As long as there are reliable workers, it will definitely succeed.

Watt then mustered up the courage to start again.

But at this time, Watt encountered financial problems again. Because Robock, who supported him, lost money in business, he could no longer support him.

Watt couldn't help but sigh, I am now 35 years old, and the career I have done in this world is probably not worth 25 pennies.

The house leaked and it rained all night, and his first wife passed away due to illness, which made Watt fall to the lowest point in his life.

But he was still enthusiastically engaged in the research of steam engines because this was his life goal. 】

Wang Anshi: Watt's road to inventing the steam engine was full of setbacks, just like my road to reform.

He saw his own reflection in Watt's body, and couldn't help but be filled with emotion.

It is never easy to succeed in doing big things, and you will always encounter various hardships along the way.

As for Watt's path to inventing the steam engine, it was not always smooth sailing, and there were setbacks from time to time.

He couldn't help but think that the reforms he was implementing now were facing all kinds of resistance.

Even though Watt faced many hardships, Watt finally succeeded in developing a steam engine.

And can his reforms overcome many difficulties and be as successful as Watt?

He is very confident about this.

Although the reform encountered considerable resistance, he believed that he could remove the obstacles on the road like Watt and ultimately achieve success in the reform.

[Watt's hard work attracted the attention of another capitalist, Robert's friend Bolton. He took over Robert's position and cooperated with Watt, so that Watt finally had the opportunity to build his steam engine again.

In the following years, Watt struggled endlessly with rough workmanship defects, sometimes feeling confident and sometimes frustrated.

But strangely, during the next four years, Watt devoted some of his energy to civil engineering work.

It seemed to his friends that he would never build a steam engine again.

Many of Watt's friends are puzzled by this. They hate that iron cannot become steel, and feel sorry that a genius like Watt has been buried. However, they do not fully understand the difficulties of Watt's situation.

The commercial and financial panic from 1772 to 1773 caused almost all private banks in Scotland to go bankrupt, and Robock encountered a financial crisis.

Bolton wanted to get more shares, and the two had a dispute over the shares and patent rights. In the end, Bolton finally concentrated 1773/8 of the shares of the patent into his hands in August 2. At this time, Watt had funds again. Start your own research.

In 1774, the Watt family moved to Birmingham, and soon brought their youngest daughter Margaret and five-year-old son James to live with them.

Maybe changing his residence can really change his luck, and everything will be smooth sailing for Watt after that.

In 1776, the first batch of new steam engines were finally successfully manufactured, and the news that the new machines were in operation attracted many miners.

Amidst the roar of the machine, basket after basket of coal was transported up from the mine, and everyone was amazed by the speed of operation.

Experiments show that the coal consumption of the new machine is only 1/4 of the Newcomen steam engine, and the efficiency is increased by as much as three times.

In addition to faster operating speed, operational safety is also greatly improved.

Watt became famous, and wealth and honors came to him.

Dissatisfaction is an upward wheel that can carry humble people forward. This sentence is more suitable to describe Watt. 】

Zhu Di: The steam engine is absolutely epoch-making and must be recorded in my Yongle Ceremony.

Watt developed the steam engine. I don’t know how much effort he spent and how many difficulties and obstacles he encountered.

Now that the clouds have cleared and the moon is finally shining, Watt's steam engine has finally been successfully manufactured. Even he is happy about it and can't help but cheer.

Even though it was just a small steam engine, he could see that the significance of the steam engine was by no means ordinary.

Through the steam engine developed by Watt, basket after basket of coal was transported from the mine, without the miners having to carry basket after basket, which greatly improved the efficiency of transporting coal.

He could already imagine the scene of steam engines operating in every mine in the Ming Dynasty. That scene must be extremely spectacular.

With the steam engine, various mineral resources will be mined at a rate of hundreds and thousands of times.

By that time, there will be inexhaustible mineral resources, and it will be difficult for Ming Dynasty not to be rich.

[The new steam engine put into production brought Watt great fame and money.

But he did not stop further exploration of the machine. For more than 20 years, Watt continued to improve the steam engine.

Later in 1784, Watt proposed a parallel link mechanism in one of his patents.

With it, the steam engine has wider practicality.

Four years later, Watt invented the centrifugal speed regulator and the throttle valve.

Watt added a sliding valve and a special crank device to make the steam engine suitable for a variety of industrial productions and became a universal prime mover with wide practicality.

It was not until 1790 that Watt's improvement process of steam engines was completed.

After the universal steam engine was invented, someone first applied it to the production of porcelain. For the first time in human history, the supply of this commodity exceeded demand.

Next, steam engines were widely used in the mining, textile and metallurgical industries.

In addition to being a source of power for factories, steam engines also played an important role in other areas.

In 1807, the American inventor Fulton developed a steamship powered by a steam engine and sailed on the sea, marking the beginning of the steam age in the transportation industry.

In 1825, the steam train designed by Stephenson was successfully tested on the first commercial railway track, marking the arrival of the railway era.

By the 1830s and 1940s, steam engines were widely used around the world, and human society entered the steam age.

In addition to the steam engine, Watt also invented an advanced hydrometer, a new letter copying machine, was the first to propose propellers to propel ships, and was the first to use horsepower as a unit of power.

After Watt's success, the accolades came pouring in.

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1784 and a fellow of the Royal Society of London the following year.

The University of Glasgow awarded Watt the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in 1806, but he declined an offer from London to create a baronetcy, Lord Liverpool.

Watt received one of the greatest honors in 1814, when he was elected as one of eight foreign members of the French Academy. 】

Zhu Yuanzhang: If you look at it this way, steam engines are much more important than steam trains.

At this moment, he probably understood why the anchor played the video of Watt's invention of the steam engine before playing the video of the steam train.

In the final analysis, the steam engine invented by Watt was specifically designed to provide power and was the core thing that promoted the development of all industrial machinery.

As mentioned in the video, after the invention of the Watt steam engine, it was widely used in the mining, textile and metallurgical industries.

Others even used steam engines as power and invented steam ships and steam trains.

The steam train invented by Stephenson mentioned in the video. If he guessed correctly, the steam train mentioned by the anchor was invented by Stephenson.

However, the current top priority is to develop a steam engine.

Only after the steam engine is developed can we continue to study steam trains.

Regarding the research on steam engines and steam trains, he was full of confidence and believed that they could be easily developed.

You know, he got a quota yesterday and is waiting for the host's massive books.

He was certain that millions of books would contain details of steam engines and steam trains.

As soon as those books arrive, he will organize officials from the Ministry of Industry to study immediately and develop a steam engine as soon as possible.

With the help of later professional books, whether it is a steam engine or a steam train, it is not a big problem.

[When Watt got older, the introverted Watt was extremely reluctant to leave his isolated little world.

In his later years, in addition to doing research in his attic studio, Watt traveled around the world.

Watt and his later wife traveled throughout Belgium, up the Rhine River to Frankfurt, from there to Strasbourg, and then from Paris back to England.

Watt was very busy in Scotland, as he had many friends from the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow to catch up with.

The elderly Watt finally settled in Dold, where he purchased a farm house and some fields.

However, Watt, as a father, was not immune to the pain his parents had suffered.

The two children born to his wife died successively, and his daughter died of tuberculosis in 1794 when she was 15 years old.

Shortly thereafter, his promising son, who had entered adolescence, also contracted tuberculosis and died in October 1804.

Watt was so miserable that he collected all his son's books, manuscripts, and drawings in a box and kept them in the attic studio closest to him until his death.

Watt's active and quick mind continued until the end of his life.

In July 1819, when Watt was 7 years old, he went on a tour of London.

But soon after returning home, he fell ill, and it quickly became apparent that his days were numbered.

In 1819, this outstanding inventor passed away. In order to commemorate him, people erected a statue of him in the famous cathedral.

Of all Watt's children, only his daughter Margaret from his first wife survived to raise offspring.

So theoretically, the bloodline of the Watt family has been severed.

Watt's great-grandson James added Watt's surname by royal permission in 1856.

In 1960, the 11th Session of the International Conference on Weights and Measures adopted the watt as the unit of power in the International System of Units.

He is not a genius, hard work and focus are the secrets of his success.

He is not a giant either. His thin body prevents him from carrying the burden of life.

And when the roar of the steam engine plays the melody of his life, the brilliance of his personality is admirable.

As Watt himself said, it is better to compare truth to flint. The harder it is struck, the more brilliantly it emits light. 】

While ancient people from all dynasties admired Watt's brilliant achievements, they also felt sorry for his experiences in his later years.

He is obviously such an old man who has made great achievements and deserves to have a happy old age.

But God dealt him a heavy blow, causing him to lose two young children in his later years.

Throughout Watt's life, they were filled with emotion.

Although Watt's career was ultimately successful, his family's tragedy continued throughout his life.

You lose your mother when you are young, you lose your wife when you are young, you lose your children when you are old.

But no matter what, Watt's career achievements made them envious.

After all, it can be famous for generations, and it is also worldwide. This is something that countless people cannot envy.

(End of this chapter)