It was easy to build a wireless telegraph, but it was difficult to make a finished product at a moderate cost using the existing industrial process, and Downing, who was accustomed to the assembly line production method, had to plan the entire factory, and his most basic modern production method was also a pioneer at the time, which would enable his factory to produce with extreme speed and efficiency.

Even for something like a telegraph tower, he was thinking about how to produce and build it in a factory, and he wanted not only to make a successful invention, but also to make it a business. A month after the real yàn room was set up, his battery made a breakthrough, and the factory career could begin, so he found a reliable partner, Samuel, a banker who had been with him for a long time, to talk about financing the construction of the factory.

This is a small business of a few thousand pounds, and Samuel readily agrees to Downing's conditions, he is a drunkard who does not want to drink, and hopes that Tongguò will happily cooperate this time to gain Downing's favor and show off his unique skills in steelmaking.

In the process of actually building the production line, Downing was thinking about the market, wireless telegraphy is a new thing, how to open the market? At present, the most enthusiastic users of telegraph are railway companies, and nearly half of the railway lines in Britain have already laid telegraph networks. Equipping a ship with wireless telegraphy is the way to go, which is something that cannot be done by wired telegraphy. A 100-mile wired telegraph line costs at least 10,000 pounds, the cost of complex terrain rises rapidly, and it is not cheap to maintain, he originally wanted a set of wireless telegraph equipment to cost 5,000 pounds, but this is almost half the cost of an East India Company three-masted galleon, I am afraid that no shipyard is willing to spend such a sky-high price to install wireless telegraphy. Driven down to 10% of the ship's price? That's £1,000, which is a great price for a property...... It still doesn't seem right.

When the Netherlands was known as the coachman of the sea, it claimed to have 200,000 merchant ships, and now a century has passed, the number of merchant ships and fishing boats in the world should be far more than that, if 100,000 ships are deployed on wireless telegraphy, and each ship charges an annual fee of 100 pounds, that is a huge income of 10 million pounds, so the price has to be reduced! The killer app is not only about communication, but also about ...... If the geographical location of the three fixed points is known, wouldn't it be possible to locate them by the time difference of the radio signal?

The current navigation scheme is to determine the latitude through the guò starry sky, and the longitude is determined by the starry sky plus the time difference, and it is very difficult to find the stars in the bumpy sea, and it is said that many captains are blind in one eye because of the sextant...... Noble captains, to protect your precious eyes, please use our radio navigation service.

Another major obstacle is that it is not easy to master Morse code, and so far, Tang Ning has not mastered it himself...... This thing is equivalent to binary, and it is a miserable thing for people to use binary directly, not to mention, at a critical moment, it is not easy to knock on the code, and the Titanic is because of the old mistakes of the telegraph personnel in a panic, which delays the distress signal for a lot of time. It would be perfect if you could combine a typewriter with a telegraph.

Typewriter...... This era is not yet. Making a wireless telegraph is really like cracking the Fermat conjecture, and along the way, it will open up many fields and make many firsts.

Time is limited, and Downing doesn't bother to think about whether the QWERTY keyboard is the most scientific, anyway, the speed is not so bad, so let's get used to it. Downing remembers that there was a kind of "silent" typewriter that never sold well, just because typists liked to hear the sound of typing, and for some reason, Downing liked it too. There is a little trick in building a typewriter, which is to pass through a small iron sheet with nine small holes, which can not only make the mechanical structure smoother, but also make holes in the paper tape through the nine small holes with 72 arrangements, what is the use of this? It can be used for "photocopying", as long as the perforated paper tape is passed through the guò hole recognition mechanism, the printed content can be reprinted.

You know, the high-tech of the photocopier took a long time to invent, and Downing's feat of copying can be completed by transferring paper tape in a small place, and it is also the killer application of the typewriter. This kind of tape transfer is necessary for the manufacture of automatic transmitters, and it is not Downing's pursuit of perfection here. With tape transfer, you can add quite useful features, such as error correction. It doesn't matter if you make a mistake when typing for the first time, there is a delete key on the keyboard, which can rewind the spacing of a letter to put a strikethrough on the letter, if it is a very important document, then retype it with guò paper tape, at this time, the place where the strikethrough has been automatically punched a special hole, which will be ignored, this initiative has never appeared in a typewriter in history, and it is the most advanced error correction mechanism.

Paper tape production lines, special paper production lines, special ink production lines, one by one production lines are in full swing, and at this time Downing has raised tens of thousands of pounds from two bankers he trusts, Rawlinson and Smith.

Tang Ning's method of controlling the future telegraph company was carefully designed, the wireless telegraph patent himself owned 50% of the equity, the production line also owned 50% of the equity, and the battery patent, typewriter patent, paper tape machine patent, and ink patent were all 100% owned by himself.

After this design, eventually, the wireless telegraph machine was finally ready for production, and it was only then that Lionel was invited. Rothschild, a "small shareholder" with great energy, came to observe his great engineering achievements, and at this time, the antenna up to 100 meters high could easily send a wireless telegraph from London to Birmingham 100 miles away, which meant that crossing the English Channel was a breeze. （http：／／.)。

The transmitter equipped with the error correction function typewriter can not only be described as amazing, even the richest man in the world must be admired by such exquisite high technology, this is really a product that changes human beings, no matter how dull the guy, seeing this fool can learn in five minutes of long-distance communication equipment, but also know its great value.

Downing offered £100,000 for a 50 per cent stake in the telegraph company, and he personally had to take the other 50 per cent if he didn't have a penny.

100,000 pounds was nothing to Rothschild, he wanted to have 50% alone, but unfortunately Downing did not allow it, and in the end, he only got 25%, Samuel 10%, Rawlinson 10%, and 5% to the Governor of the East India Company.

I was only the big Rothschild who was the second shareholder, and Lionel was extremely angry, but when I met diehards such as Downing, the big Rothschild was not bad, and the arrogance of the great engineer was not inferior to that of the European aristocracy.

Fortunately, Downing was not prepared to call the Telegraph Company "Windsor Telegraph Company", but to inform the opinions of the three investors.

Originally, it was possible to call the East India Company Correspondence Office, but this time the company was probably mainly for the British to do business, and if it was called the East India Telegraph Company, it would sound a bit awkward.

Last name: British Telegraph Company. It will be unveiled on May 1, which is also the opening day of the International Industry Fair, auspicious.