"Be careful, don't break it...... You two are really patient, such a thin steel bar is all made by hand? ”

Wang Xin was not abused or criticized, he was lying in front of a magnifying glass, holding a tool to poison the round box. All kinds of pinions, small bearings, and small wire coils were dismantled.

Hong Tao was lying on the other side of the table, holding a magnifying glass and staring at it without breathing, his expression was more nervous than Wang Xin. Every time I remove a part, I use tweezers to pick it up and look at it carefully, and I can't stop admiring it.

He wasn't angry just now, but he was surprised. The round box in Wang Xin's pocket is a clock, to be precise, a mechanical watch, a mechanical watch driven by a clockwork, using a hairspring and a disc instead of a gravity pendulum!

But unlike later clocks, it is twelve-decimal. There are 12 gold nails on the dial representing the 12 hours, and between the two gold nails there are seven gold wires representing the 8 quarters of an hour, and there are no second and minute hands, only a gold hand, which points to the time wherever it is.

As early as the Jin Mingchi period, Hong Tao had seen Wang Datou's craft of building a distillation kettle and talked to him about mechanical clocks. Later, Wang Datou's craftsmanship became more and more refined, and Hong Tao also suggested very seriously, saying that it was better for him to be a watchmaker, not a goldsmith.

Wang Datou was serious, and felt that it was necessary to learn more crafts for his children and grandchildren, and for a while he pestered Hong Tao to ask for the design ideas and drawings of clocks and watches, and secretly pondered when he had nothing to do.

Hong Tao really didn't expect Wang Datou to succeed, the same suggestions and drawings were returned to the Jewish craftsmen, but it was an obsession, and he forgot about it after a long time, but he didn't expect it to come out.

Will Hong Tao make clocks? That's impossible, he's never been in the industry, and he's rarely even touched it. However, when he was a child, he was fascinated by machinery like many boys, and he was willing to ponder everything in his family that had anything to do with machinery.

Unlike many boys, Hong Tao is bolder, not only pondering, but also dismantling. Because he has a dad who is also excellent in hands-on ability, and a group of college teachers around him who are even better in hands-on and brain-using skills.

When he was in elementary school, he dismantled two grandfather clocks and two alarm clocks, and at first he couldn't even dismantle them, and often couldn't dismantle them halfway. Grandpa found out that he just scolded him, and his father came back to criticize two sentences, and he had to help install the alarm clock, and explain the principle while pretending.

This kind of connivance was soon transformed into intensified, about the fourth grade, Hong Tao was able to skillfully disassemble the grandfather clock, and the alarm clock was also overcome before graduating from primary school.

During this period, he also tried to use batteries and small electric motors instead of clocksprings and gravity pendulums to drive the table clock, but he failed for a long time. But Dad said that this is a good thing, if you have an idea, you should find a way to realize it, how can you know right or wrong if you don't try. The process of failure is the process of receiving new knowledge and correcting old understandings.

It's a pity that Hong Tao didn't last too long in his interest in clocks, and he didn't aspire to become a watchmaker. When he came into contact with a more interesting model airplane, he immediately threw the clock aside, and secretly dismantled the gears in the clock to make the transmission system of the model airplane, which was not in vain.

But Dad is right, the process of failure did receive new knowledge, at least he roughly understood the structure and principle of the clock, according to the drawings made by the cat and the tiger, can not deceive the watchmakers of later generations, and can not be blinded by the ancient craftsmen? Even if it is the most primitive gravity pendulum table clock, it is also a high-precision artifact in the Song Dynasty, and it is extremely precise.

But he underestimated the hands-on ability and perseverance of the ancients, and Wang Datou had only one hand left, and with the help of his grandson and apprentices, he used a few years of leisure time to restore the drawings stubbornly.

Moreover, Wang Datou skipped the relatively easy gravity pendulum table clock, and directly made a hairspring swing clock in one step. Not to mention, the manufacturing accuracy of the hairspring, the plate, the escape wheel, and the pallet fork alone has kicked the door of the watch manufacturing industry open.

After that, the threshold of technical structure no longer exists, and only by working technology and materials, the clock can become more and more accurate and smaller.

"Don't be afraid, Weng Weng and I have made several parts of each, with the gossamer being the most. It won't take two or three months to replace it, otherwise it will be more than half an hour away every day and night. ”

Wang Xin's age is destined not to have Wang Datou's calmness, the more he says that he will slow down, the more he has to show off his skills, ask what to say, and say it without asking, for fear that others will not know.

"How many hairsprings do you have?" Hong Tao's facial features began to wrinkle together again.

"Three! Don't worry, I still have a spare ...... in my box. Not before, Weng Weng said that this thing was too rough, and it was missed for more than a quarter of an hour every day, and it was okay to show it to the craftsmen, but it was not to fool the adults......"

After answering casually, Wang Xin suddenly woke up, looked up and saw the face with distorted facial features in front of him, and immediately realized that he had leaked his mouth again, and quickly retracted.

"Okay, you're a big king, and you've been hiding from your official for half a year! You can hide on Fujian Road and not show up, I see where your grandson is hiding! Boy, you are on a big business, you are not allowed to go anywhere from today, honestly make clocks and watches for this official here, and when will you be released from the house after a mistake! ”

Such a good thing let others use it for half a year first, and I still stupidly look at the sun, sundial, and listen to the timing of the bell, I really can't bear it.

If you can run, adults can't run children, why do you want to develop in Sichuan, don't worry, this child is the future watch master, and his luxurious life of a Rolex in his left hand, a Longines in his right hand, and an omega on his chest depends on him.

"Adults want to take villains as apprentices!?" Hearing that he couldn't go home and couldn't leave the palace, Wang Xin was not only scared or depressed, but also quite excited.

"You don't want to?" Within the system formed by Hong Tao, except for the children's group, although all the craftsmen claimed to be the apprentices of the horses, none of them really learned from him.

But today Hong Tao plans to make an exception, time is too important, and then say a rough idea like before, throw a few more drawings, and let others play freely, not that it can't be successful, but the speed will be very slow.

Is a clock really that important? The answer is yes. Clocks and watches are rulers that measure time, and like weights and measures and language, with a unified standard, society will advance by leaps and bounds.

With this ruler of time, a series of natural science problems such as chemical experiments, metallurgical steps, mechanical speed, mapping, and sailing mileage will be more accurate and controllable, and people's use of time will be higher, and their ability to plan for the future will be stronger.

In a way, mastering time equals mastering everything!

"Poof...... The master is above, Wang Xin kowtows to the master! "Don't want to? I don't want to be a fool, how many craftsmen are looking forward to this moment.

To put it mildly, even if you don't learn anything, as long as the identity of the apprentice of the king of the horse is true, you will not have to worry about eating and drinking for the rest of your life, and countless people will come to invite you, including the workshop of the imperial court.

"The master is not in the kowtow, it is also in vain, the apprenticeship ceremony will be held on a later date, now I will talk to the master about what is needed to make clocks." With such a self-taught apprentice, Hong Tao felt that it should not be Wang Xin's luck, but his own luck.

Again, the seeds planted began to sprout. Today is Wang Xin, and tomorrow there will be Li Xin and Liu Xin. With them constantly popping up, you must be very motivated, and you can't delay for a minute!

If you want to make a clock, you must have the ability to smelt and process metals, and the scale is not large, but it needs to be particularly delicate. Where to set up a watch factory? Hong Tao felt that the garden in the middle of the palace was quite suitable, it was quiet, there were houses on all sides, and outsiders usually did not come.

With the scale of the palace, building two small smelting furnaces in the middle is not in the way at all, and it will not be noticeable, and the raw materials needed are easier to find, which is to make clocks and watches, not to cast cannons, and not to use many raw materials at all.

Several pavilions in the garden are slightly renovated and renovated just as workshops and dormitories, just open the mouth of the pond to connect the Cao River, it has the hydraulic power to push the equipment, anyway, the clock does not use too much machinery, the biggest is the lathe, the drilling machine, completely sufficient.

However, Wang Xin alone knows that clocks and watches are too difficult, and this craft must be mastered by several more people at the same time so as not to be interrupted, so it is not enough to prepare hardware, but also to send a few suitable people to help.

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