In the afternoon, Li ZiXuan went to the Umbrella Laboratory with Marion.
From the outside, the Umbrella Laboratory looked like a tall building with twenty-five floors.
With the development of the times, high-rise buildings in New York City began to appear on a large scale like bamboo shoots after a rain.
In recent years, as the population of New York City continued to increase, it had become more and more like a future metropolis.
As Li Zixuan's car drove in, the black door with the umbrella pattern on it slowly opened to both sides.
"How does it feel?" Marion asked as she got out of the car. The car looked like a future Ford Model T
.
"It's already very good. A 4-cylinder 20-horsepower gasoline engine, placed in the front of the engine cover, two forward and one reverse planetary gear transmission, inflatable tires, and a double-row canopied boat-shaped body. This experimental car can already be mass-produced!”
Li Zixuan jumped down from the driver's seat.
In fact, this was a car made by the Umbrella Laboratory's machinery department.
There were a total of four cars. Apart from Li Zixuan's own,
two of them were given to Mr. Rockefeller after rigorous testing, and the other one was given to JC Fuguo.
The last one was given to Marion, who was a shareholder and a researcher.
It was said that Mr. Rockefeller was very happy after getting the car.
He immediately threw the car made from the Panhard Levasso carriage that he imported from Gallic chickens into the garage of the manor.
Although the technology of the Daimler high-speed gasoline engine that Panghard Levaso had obtained from the carriage manufacturing was not bad,
it was still far from the engine technology of the Ford Model T sedan that would appear twenty years later that Li Zixuan had signed on.
The cars made by Panhard Levaso were powered by an internal combustion engine with a power of 1.1km (less than two horsepower),
while the Ford T had 20 horsepower.
The two could not be mentioned in the same breath. From the time Li Zixuan signed in to the time when the Umbrella Laboratory thoroughly studied it, it took two years to complete it.
"Yeah, I'll go talk to Rudolf Diesel about mass production later.？”
Marion asked.
Since it was a car developed by Li Zixuan's company, it naturally couldn't be called a Ford car.
He thought about it and said,
"Let's call it the Li T-T car!"
"I know Li Shi, what is that T!？”Marion asked curiously.
"Don't we need tin sheets to make the mold of the vanadium-steel?，Isn't TIN in English?”
Li Zixuan explained the reason for the letter T.
Nowadays, cars were not made of carbon steel, but a type of Vandium Steel.
Because the car parts could not be made of plastic for the time being, many parts needed to be made of titanium steel.
The vanadium-steel mold was a type of tin sheet material.
This was also the origin of the T-shaped Ford Model T.
The two of them walked to the Mechanical Research Department.
When Li Zixuan and Marion walked to the door, they heard a group of researchers discussing in the laboratory.
"I don't think the diesel engine can be used in the car for the time being!”
A young researcher said.
Hearing this, a man in his thirties with glasses and a mustache replied,
"However, the diesel engine has high torque-consuming and low fuel consumption. If it can be used in cars, it can give cars a stronger heart!”
"Then, Director Diesel, what are the disadvantages? It's heavy, has a lot of vibration noise, and has high technical standards. Another point was that in order to achieve the same comprehensive effect in the vehicle engine, the technical requirements for the manufacture and maintenance of the diesel engine were much higher!”
The young man retorted.
"Researcher Henry, this is indeed a problem, but don't forget what this place is. Umbrella Laboratory. We have technology that the outside world can't imagine!”
the bespectacled man with a mustache said.
At this moment, the researchers who were in a heated discussion saw Li Zixuan and Marion walk into the office and immediately shut their mouths
."The discussion is very lively, Mr. Diesel, Mr. Ford!”
Li Zixuan smiled and said,
In fact, one of them was the inventor of the diesel engine, Rudolf Diesel.
He was working as a salesman for Linde's refrigerator company in Paris and was poached to New York. At that time, the fast food restaurants in the United States were expanding and needed a large number of cold storage equipment.
This guy took a boat to New York to sell cold storage equipment. Unexpectedly, he was chosen by Li Zixuan.
He was recruited to the Umbrella Laboratory. With his strong research and development capabilities, he quickly developed a compression ignition engine (diesel engine).
The Umbrella Laboratory had also applied for a patent.
If Li Zixuan hadn't intervened, Rudolph Diesel's future would have been extremely miserable. Although he had strong research and development capabilities, he lacked business acumen.
He was slowly falling into financial trouble.
In 1913, Diesel was on the verge of bankruptcy.
That summer, he suddenly disappeared while taking a ferry across the English Channel. It was believed that he had committed suicide by jumping into the sea.
The young researcher on the other side was the future famous Henry Ford.
The reason why he was recruited into the Umbrella Laboratory was because the Eden Lighting Company he joined was currently in a very difficult situation.
Because of the tungsten incandescent lamp from the Umbrella Laboratory, the carbon incandescent lamp that was used for lighting became an outdated product.
If it weren't for the fact that tungsten was still a little expensive in this era, the Eden Lighting Company would have gone bankrupt long ago.
However, Henry Ford eventually chose to jump ship and came to Li Shi Lighting Company.
Then, he was recruited by Li Zixuan to become a researcher in the Umbrella Laboratory.
"Mr. Bruce, we are discussing the application of the diesel engine and the internal combustion engine.”
Rudolf Diesel said in English, which he was not very proficient in.
"In fact, I think that the diesel engine can be used in cars, but it must be used in large vehicles. Also, the development of the diesel engine can be used in large ships!”
Li Zixuan thought about the application of the diesel engine in the future and gave some suggestions.
Hearing this, Rudolph Diesel's eyes lit up.
That's right. Since the diesel engine has a large volume and weight, high vibration and noise, and high technical standards, it should be used in large-scale machinery,
large-scale ships, or large-scale vehicles
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