Haider walked into the dining room. His eyes lit up when he saw the luxurious dining room, but he didn't pay much attention to it. He turned to look at Meg with a smile and said, "Mr. Mak, thank you for taking the time to talk to me."
"Please have a seat. I'm actually quite interested in these things." Meg smiled and put the glass of water in his hand on the table beside him. He went into the kitchen and poured another glass of water. He gently placed it in front of Haider, who had just sat down, and pulled out a chair to sit in front of him.
When it came to steam engines, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that Mag knew them like the back of his hand. After all, he had completed an improved design for a two-stroke reciprocating piston internal combustion engine on his own for his graduation project. Although this improvement proved to be difficult to put into practical use in the final experiment, it was theoretically able to increase the thermal efficiency by three percent. With this thesis, he had obtained a limited number of outstanding graduate positions.
This was the only thing he did seriously in his four years of university. During this process, he also studied the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, and the steam turbine. He still remembered the structure and principle of all of them clearly. He even remembered a few classic parts and models.
Of course, it was unrealistic for him to make these things with his own hands, but if he was asked to draw a few drawings and explain the principles, there would be no problem at all.
To put it simply, as long as he was given a good blacksmith who could make standard parts, he could make a steam engine by himself and kick the world into the age of steam.
However, Mag didn't have much interest in doing so. Regardless of whether it was Thomas Seville or Thomas Newcomen, who had invented the steam engine, or Watt, who had improved the steam engine, all of them had only left their names in the history of the steam engine. Mag wasn't very interested in leaving his name in history, but he was very curious about the level of machinery in this world.
"Thank you." Haider put the glass aside and opened the cloth bag beside him. He took out a few drawings and put them on the table. He looked at Meg with a serious expression and said, "It's like this. We have been studying how to convert steam into kinetic energy, and then use it in production and life to replace animal power and improve production efficiency. And now, we have successfully converted it into kinetic energy. Although the output is still not stable, we already have an idea of how to stabilize it. Now, the problem that needs to be solved is how to transfer this energy to other objects and make this energy useful. "
"Very bold and interesting idea." Mag looked at the crude blueprints on the table, and his eyes lit up as he looked at Hydle with a hint of respect in his eyes. In contrast with him, Hydle didn't have a giant's shoulder to stand on. It was already an extremely brilliant idea for him to be able to come up with the idea of using steam, and the fact that he had persisted in doing so was an admirable feat.
Meg admired those scientists who immersed themselves in scientific research and inventions. Their whimsical ideas and years or even a lifetime of research constantly pushed human society forward.
From the industrial revolution to the modern world, it only took a short 200 years. It could be said that the steam engine opened the curtain of this great era and accelerated the development of human society.
And the man in front of him had almost achieved this.
The thin charcoal drawings were a little rough, but the overall structure was very clear. It was a single-cylinder design. Steam would push the piston in the cylinder, and then external cooling would create a low-pressure state in the cylinder and push the piston back, forming a reciprocating motion. The connecting rod connected to the piston could obtain a certain amount of kinetic energy.
This steam engine model was very similar to Newcomen's steam engine. As Haider said, they had successfully turned steam into kinetic energy.
However, they were still about a watt away from using this kinetic energy in production and life.
But to be able to achieve this from scratch, Meg was very impressed with Haider and his team.
After all, in this world of swords and magic, people still worshipped knights who could ride on griffins and soar into the sky. Mechanics could be said to be a new and unpopular profession. If people were to tell people that one day, ordinary people could also fly into the sky and be even faster than leopards on land, they would probably only think of them as lunatics.
"Thank you." Haider looked at Meg with some gratitude. He saw agreement in Meg's eyes and words. Unlike the perfunctory expression of ordinary people, and even the undisguised mockery, Haider had experienced many of these things in the past 20 years.
From a head of thick black hair to a bald head, no one knew what kind of pressure he and his team had endured in the past 20 years.
Others envied their high salaries and subsidies, but few knew that they, as the core members, had used almost all of their savings for this project. He and his wife were still living in the old house that the school had allocated to them 20 years ago. He walked to class every day because he couldn't bear to pay a coachman and a horse. In a year, he had enough money to make another model.
Apart from his wife, who had lived a poor life with him, even his two children couldn't understand these things. They only went home once a year.
"You're welcome. But I'm curious, why do you want to study this?" Meg asked Haider with a smile. Meg Alex's memories were almost all about swordsmanship and combat.
"After 100 years of relatively peaceful development on the Norland Continent, commerce has developed tremendously. There are even many trading companies that span the entire continent.
Manpower and animal power were beginning to be insufficient to meet the needs of production. Although magic was a very powerful existence, the high cost limited the use of magic by the workshop owners. Of course, the use of magic was still very common in some expensive and delicate products.
"So, we think that this world urgently needs a low-cost and high-efficiency power plant. This idea has been approved and supported by the city lord's castle. This is also why this project, which hasn't produced any effective results, has persisted until now," Haider replied seriously.
"Yes, this is the best time." Meg nodded. According to Haider, capitalism had developed to a certain extent on the Norland Continent, and people were beginning to urgently need something that could effectively increase production efficiency.
At this time, if a mature steam engine could be developed, it would definitely be popularized and used in a short period of time. This was probably why the city lord's castle had the patience to support this money-burning project for over 20 years.
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