The launch of IBM's birdcage computer has naturally attracted the attention of entrepreneurs, and business owners with modern vision have gone to the sales centers in major cities to experience the freshness of automated computing. The most discerning people have even thought of customizing their own calculations, like John, a young man from Peabody Morgan Bank? Pierponte? Morgan, not yet 20 years old, was particularly clever and convinced the family bank to speed up the use of new equipment.

Morgan? Or did you open a bank? But isn't "that Morgan" an American? Back in London, Downing was curious to meet the young man. He asked Morgan Jr., "Have you ever been to the United States?" ”

When little Morgan met the world's biggest industrialist and capitalist, he couldn't help but bump into the deer, and he was shy and wanted to show his cute expression: "Of course, I have only been back from the United States for a few years, and I went to high school in Boston, which is a high school with a focus on mathematics, for business students. After returning to Europe, I went to Switzerland to study French and finally got a degree in art history at the University of Göttingen. So, like you, I know two foreign languages: French and German. ”

Downing: "I'm sorry, what's your full name?" ”

"John? Pierponte? Morgan. ”

Hey, it's really possible that it's J. p。 Morgan, I've found a treasure. Downing chatted with Morgan's younger brother about bank accounting, this genius banker is really the head, of course, a little tenderer, Downing asked him if he was interested in interning at the Bank of Zurich, in order to fully understand the wire transfer system and other unique sets of the Bank of Zurich, the Bank of Zurich is about to carry out a large-scale automation reform, Morgan can participate in it, as a business expert to give advice on the calculation process or something.

This is also a great opportunity for little Morgan, of course, to see, he is the heir of the family bank, there is no shortage of money, what is lacking is business opportunities, and the world's largest capitalist bank, into can become a partner in the operation of huge capital, retirement can accumulate advanced wire transfer system operation experience, for their future better operation of the family bank to lay a good foundation.

With telecommunications, computerization as advanced weapons, and perhaps peerless geniuses like Morgan, Downing's financial dynasty is just around the corner. It is not a problem to achieve the status of the Medici financial dynasty in Italy, and the Rothschild financial dynasty in Europe will also become a thing of the past.

The size of the radio is about the same size as the gramophone, and it is a cheap and simple route, and it has been very popular in Europe since it was launched for a month, but anyone who has a little spare money wants to try it, and it is only one pound, which is really a good price. In the early days, there were broadcasts in English, French, and German, and the newspaper officials under Napoleon III reminded the emperor that this thing seemed to be very powerful in manipulating public opinion, because even illiterate people could listen to the radio, which meant that a large number of civilian news sources were in the hands of those who were once hostile to the French Empire.

Napoleon III was quite entangled in this issue, on the one hand, he did not dare to make a ban on Downing's products, and on the other hand, he was unwilling to be accused of public opinion by the broadcast, he hesitated and could not decide, and the radio gradually became popular in France in his hesitation. Fortunately, so far, the BBC is still in the same style as the Telegraph's journalism, not talking much about ideology, except for the big boss Downing's own atheism, which is well known, and later programs have not exaggerated atheist claims too much, which has given the third generation and the church a sigh of relief.

This is Downing's gradual strategy, as long as he has made his claim clear, as the influence of his companies slowly expands, the influence of atheism will become more and more invisible, and there is no need to shout like a cry of heaven and earth.

The BBC advertising is the same, the quantity is very small, the quality is very good, generally speaking, the products that can be on the BBC are high-quality, and the products that are creative and have a great help to people's lives are the mainstay. It is still the initial stage of the BBC, only news and music channels, and the annual rent of one pound a year is enough to maintain, but in the future, more channels and programs will be developed, Downing is not enthusiastic about the advertising model, and the paid channel is the king of doing a good job of content, so the broadcasting industry under his monopoly will be based on paid listening for a long time, so as to avoid advertisers having the right to speak, capital is a chaotic and indulgent thing, since there is a good era of monopolizing the broadcasting industry, Downing is not prepared to let capital rampant the broadcasting industry.

January 1857, California took place 7. A magnitude 9 earthquake, but fortunately, California was not populated at this time, and this earthquake was 100 miles away from the more populous U.S. Army Terhong Fortress, destroying almost all buildings and killing a few residents. The relief supplies brought by the U.S. military from the east could not be transported directly from the east to the west coast by sea, and some people began to think about building a canal in Panama. Frenchman Ferdinand? Morality? Reseb was angry that the Suez Canal project was snatched away by Downing and began to call on the capitalists to invest in digging the Panama Canal.

Unfortunately, Downing has taken a fancy to the canal again and has sent an expedition to explore it. Desperate to see that the project he wanted to be snatched away by the Windsor consortium again, Reseb was so angry that he couldn't twist his arms and thighs, so he had to express his willingness to cooperate with Downing to develop the Panama Canal. Tang Ning was worried that there was no one to preside over the project, and he agreed to Reseb's request.

The industry has entered the final stage of the real yàn, and perhaps the two major canal projects will start at the same time.

Downing bought a large piece of flat land in Buckinghamshire, not far from his home of Stoke Garden, to build what could be described as a "luxury" airship test base. The airship industry is not as simple as imagined, it also has to be linked to the most basic industrial technology - materials.

The famous Hindenburg airship was caused by Germany's inability to produce helium at a low enough cost, and the United States imposed a Nazi embargo. The Hindenburg, which had to use dangerous hydrogen for liftoff, dropped the drop line at the end of the voyage from Frankfurt to New Jersey when a small flame burst out in its tail, and the fire spread rapidly, turning the entire airship into a large fireball, burning the Hindenburg to the ground in 34 seconds, killing 36 of the 97 passengers on board and one on the ground.

It is certain that the aircraft has been plagued by disasters since the moment it was born, and this technology must be tested and accumulated in various experiences at the initial stage. And the Hindenburg tragedy became a sign that airships, such an air vehicle, gave way to fixed-wing aircraft. At that time, only Germany had built a fairly functional airship in the air, but they did not have the industry to make helium. This is the root cause of the disaster. If you think about it, more than half of the passengers survived the hydrogen explosion, which shows that the damage caused by an airship crash is much smaller than that of a fixed-wing aircraft crash. Solving the problem of helium solves the core problem in the airship manufacturing process.

Previously, Downing's method of producing nitrogen was to use a carbon molecular sieve, which cleverly used 0. 3 to 0. The 6 nm carbon molecular sieve pore size is the rate difference between oxygen and nitrogen to obtain these two gases. In fact, there is another way to separate gases - taking advantage of the difference in their boiling points.

The vapor compression refrigeration cycle used in the Penguin refrigerator gradually liquefies various components in the atmosphere, starting with oxygen at 90 Kelvin. Liquefaction at 2 degrees, after extracting oxygen, and continuing to cool can liquefy the boiling point of 87. 3k argon, leaving a boiling point of 77. For nitrogen at 35k, the boiling point of neon is 24. 56k, and finally the boiling point of helium is 4. 222k。 These are extremely useful industrial gases that are not readily available in the eyes of others. It also involves the use of ultra-low boiling gases as a medium for deep cooling, which is also a key technology.

Neon can be used to make neon signs. Neon gas, which emits red light when charged into a lamp. But red neon signs alone aren't enough. If you want neon to produce different colors, you need to use green, yellow, blue, and white fluorescent powders as supplements. For example, the blue fluorescent powder is applied to the inner wall of the glass tube, the glass tube is bent into the required text or pattern pattern, and then the electrode is installed, and the air in the glass tube is pumped clean, and then charged with neon gas to form a pink neon sign. If a lamp coated with blue fluorescent powder is filled with argon and mercury, it becomes a blue neon sign; If neon gas is filled with neon gas in a lamp coated with green fluorescent powder, it will become orange-red; If you change neon to argon and mercury, it will become a green neon sign.

With the advent of the automobile era, traffic lights must be equipped, and neon lights are not only used as store signs, but also have a very serious purpose.

Airships are also weaker than fixed-wing aircraft - they are susceptible to air currents. There are two main solutions to solve this aspect, one is to use a hard shell. Aluminum, a once very expensive metal, has been mass-produced here in Downing, and the cost has dropped dramatically, making the use of aluminum enclosures possible. Pure aluminum is not hard enough to support the aircraft, it needs to be mixed with a small amount of other elements, such as: copper, meng, silicon, magnesium, zinc. Among them, the hardness of zinc-aluminum alloy is the highest, surpassing that of steel. Moreover, it is resistant to intergranular corrosion, making it more suitable for making durable airships than easily available copper-aluminum alloys. Zinc is also used to prevent rust on the wheels of the Knights of the Round Table. The airship will eventually use zinc-aluminum alloy as the main material, including: shell, structure, hydrogen storage tank, methanol storage tank, and various parts.

The second way to reduce the impact of air currents is to fly at low altitudes and keep an eye on the weather and avoid flying in bad weather as much as possible. The higher above the ground, the greater the wind speed, and the more likely it is to encounter dangerous weather such as turbulence and downdrafts. Generally, the distance between the airship and the ground is not more than 300 meters, which is enough to avoid most ground obstacles, and the view is already quite good. Many migratory birds migrate at ground altitudes of 300 meters.

The size of the airship is also particular, too big it is difficult to find a place to land, too small is not enough load capacity. Downing prefers a length of 75 meters, using a total of three propellers, one front and one rear, wrapped in a zinc-aluminum alloy grille to prevent accidental injury to people on the ground. All three propellers can be rotated at an angle to provide lift at liftoff, and become normal flight propellers when cruising. The two spirals in front are smaller and can be used to provide rudder power through the difference in their speed. A huge propeller in the back is the main propulsion of the airship.

The source of power is hydrogen fuel cells, but for circumnavigation purposes, the airship has a fuel reformer on board to reconvert the methanol stored in aluminum cans into hydrogen.

The passenger shelter is placed under the airship, a plate like a flying saucer, in order to make the whole airship appear streamlined, the hull is made in the shape of a large fish, and the front half is a round fish body, which is used to hold up the heavy flying saucer. （http:／／.）。

Probably the most famous airship design is Count Zeppelin's Zeppelin, which was the first hard airship to use an aluminium hull, and had a rather interesting design - it was fueled by water gas. Because the density of water gas is about the same as air, the airship will become too light due to the loss of fuel during the flight, and the previous airship needs to constantly abandon hydrogen to reduce the lift of the airship, if it is helium, it will be even more distressing, which is a rare gas produced by radioactive elements, no matter how large-scale production, it is more expensive.

Downing's design is a hydrogen dumping scheme, that is, in addition to helium as the main body, it will also be supplemented with a small amount of hydrogen to be discarded. The hydrogen compartment is placed on top of the airship, so that even in the event of a fire, it will be extinguished by the rapid escape of hydrogen. The tragedy of the Hindenburg also lies in the fact that the airbags it uses under the aluminum case are flammable, and Downing certainly would not make such a fatal mistake.

A large wind turbine can also be placed on top of the airship to compensate for the loss of hydrogen dumping. If there is no need for a rapid march, the airship can raise a wind turbine to produce hydrogen when it stays for a long time, and if it stays long enough, it can even be used to provide the main power for the airship to fly, which makes the endurance of the hydrogen fuel cell airship super strong, as long as there is no failure, there is basically no possibility of lying on the nest. The airship stays at nightfall where the wind is strong enough, and after a night of wind charging, it can ensure a slow flight for several hours the next day. Such an eternally enduring aircraft is exactly what human beings dream of.

This big flying fish in the air is used to carry the bride on her honeymoon, how romantic. In fact, it was more like a whale, and the name of the project was given after Downing sketched the plan: Moby Dick.