Chapter 58 World Merchants Conference (5)
This monster piece is mainly composed of two round wooden wheels. The front wheels are slightly larger and the rear wheels are slightly smaller. The middle is connected by wooden boards. There is a seat above. There is an additional wooden frame on the front wheel shaft. The upper end is a fork, and the lower end is connected to the middle frame with an iron chain.
This is the original bicycle that Lin Feng and Gaqi jointly tinkered with when they were at sea. Lin Feng combined the original bicycle types that appeared in history, combined with the current industrial conditions, drew patterns. Gaqi was responsible for hand-processing and jointly created the first relatively mature bicycle in history.
In 1791, the Frenchman Sifrak had a sudden idea and cut off half of the four-wheeled horse-wheeled wheels. The four wheels turned into two wheels in the front and rear, and designed to produce the first "Trojan wheel" car for transportation. Of course, this toy-like bicycle had neither transmission chain nor steering device. In 1818, a German man named Deres, installed a handlebar that controlled the direction on this basis for the Trojan wheel. Then he pedaled the ground with two feet, and the man sat on the car with the inertia of the car.
In 1840, the English blacksmith Macmillan, based on the "puppy" invented by Dereth, installed a crank on the axle of the rear wheel, and then connected the crank with the front and rear pedals with connecting rods. The front and rear wheels were made of iron, with the front and rear wheels small. At this point, the human feet really left the ground, and the alternating tread of the feet turned into the rolling of the wheels. In 1842, Macmillan rode this kind of car and ran twenty kilometers a day.
In 1861, the French Michao and his son installed rotating pedals on the front wheel, and the saddle of the car was mounted on the front wheel. They named the car the elegant name "bicycle" and were exhibited at the Paris Expo in 1867, which opened the eyes of the audience.
Lin Feng took the car from Jiaqi and explained to all the wealthy businessmen: "This design invention that can make people's feet off the ground and move forward with fast flight speed will be named 'bike'. Please see it."
Lin Feng held the forked wooden handle tightly with both hands, and quickly stepped onto the wheel in the middle. He leaned forward and stepped on the pedals hard. The bicycle was rotating and rolling forward.
"Please be careful, Lord Lin." Many people exclaimed.
Lin Feng folded back and forth in the hall twice, found a feeling, and then moved the bicycle to the open courtyard in front of the hall, gradually speeding up, and deliberately let go of his hands briefly, which caused a burst of exclamation. In later generations, riding a bicycle was almost everyone's basic skill, and Lin Feng, who had been riding a bicycle for transportation since elementary school, was self-disciplined.
Lin Feng got out of the car, pushed back to the main hall in a group of horrifying eyes, pointed at the car and said, "When some key small objects are designed intact, the car can easily walk fifty miles in one hour." Of course, this is Lin Feng's very conservative speed estimate.
"Hiss." A sound of air sucking sounded in the whole field. Although this speed could not keep up with the speed of the horse, it was already scary enough. In the silence of the scene, Lin Feng continued to say: "Relatively speaking, horses are too expensive, and they are inconvenient to raise and care, and they cost a lot. If you walk alone on two legs, it is not easy to last, and the speed is too slow. Bicycles are a magical tool between the two."
"Mr. Lin, I requested that this item not be auctioned. I am willing to bear all the research, design and promotion costs." Huang Zongwang raised his hands and said loudly.
"Old Huang, your land of Chu is all mountains, and it is not very useful to transport it. Of course, we have to leave it to the people in our plains to do this." Fang Hongxing shouted loudly, with little stars emerging in his eyes. If such a magical object is successfully studied, it would be a huge profit to sell it to foreign countries through the overseas channels of the Fang family.
Lin Feng raised his hands, stopped the argument between the two people, pointed to the bicycle and said: "This is not a very mature product. In Lin's vision, it will eventually be made of steel. It can be quickly flowing, but it requires a long research process. At the same time, the bicycle has high requirements for raw materials and auxiliary equipment, and requires a large amount of investment in the early stage, and the product return cycle is long. Please consider it carefully."
After the scene was cold for a while, Huang Zongwang, Fang Hongxing and Pei Songlin all raised their hands.
This time, Lin Feng directly clicked the general and became the major shareholders of bicycle design research with these three.
Next, Gazi appeared again and led two soldiers to push an extremely large object up. The object was even more strange. It was full of wheels of large and small, and at the top was a large round plate with two pointers, one long and one short, which immediately confused the rich man on the scene again.
"This is like the bicycle just now, and it is also a kind of venture capital. Please see." Lin Feng waved at Jiaqi. Jiaqi turned a rotating handle on the far right and quickly turned five or six times. A large number of gears made a sound of "grid and grid branches", and they turned one after another. After a long time, the middle dial was driven to move a long needle.
Lin Feng looked at the inexplicable eyes of the scene and explained loudly: "This object, I call a clock, is used to accurately count the time. We calculate the time in daily life, one hour, one quarter of an hour, one blink of an eye, and one moment, either seems to have too long or too blurred, which is not conducive to daily timekeeping.
After discussion, Lin and Master Jiaqi decided to divide the day into twenty-four hours based on the twelve hours of a day, each hour into sixty minutes. Through the continuous rotation of mechanical gears, the most magical time in the world will be more accurately timed. This will undoubtedly have an extremely huge impact on the whole world's manual production, military wars and even daily life.
Of course, in the future, the various parts of this clock will be further reduced until they are small enough to be placed on a table, until they can be held in the hand and carried on the body, and finally, each minute will be further divided into sixty seconds, completely controlling the time and the entire world."
This will be another great invention that changes the world. There is no sound at the scene, only heavy breathing is left. Everyone's eyes when they look at Lin Feng are full of respect and admiration.
The shock that this merchant conference brought to them was too strong. In just over an hour, what they came into contact with and saw was a magical new world, and the initiator of all this was this governor who looked amiable and unobstructed.
"I am willing to bear all the costs of the clock." After a long time, Shi Zhili said solemnly.
As soon as the foreigner spoke, all the wealthy businessmen woke up, raised their hands one after another, and shouted that it would be unreasonable to invent inventions that could change the whole world without making money.
When Lin Feng saw the scene, he immediately took the initiative and left 10% of the dry shares of patent fees and research fees first. He grabbed 10% of the shares himself, and the remaining shares were divided equally by the owner. This risk sharing practice was naturally recognized by everyone, and the auction was successfully completed.
"Okay, the auction has come to an end. Now, we are all having lunch. After the meal, we will discuss what everyone is really worried about and is really concerned about." Lin Feng applauded and once again attracted everyone's attention.
Chapter completed!