Chapter 181 Scientists (1)
The coast is very quiet, and the dark water laps hard against the rocks.
The soldiers of the Austrian Marine Corps hid the boat behind the rocks that were difficult to detect.
Ten attack groups, a total of 50 Marines, were stepping on the rocks and slowly moving towards the location where the three-point fire was lit.
In order to reduce the noise as much as possible, their shoes are specially made by Franz's arsenal. They are rubber non-slip shoes. The patterns on them can greatly increase the friction while not being too heavy and making unnecessary noise. The exterior adopts suede waterproof technology, and an aluminum alloy plate is installed on the interior, which is also puncture-resistant.
Their military boots should be the best in this era. The technology of aluminum alloy is not difficult. Just adding some copper and magnesium can greatly strengthen the strength of the aluminum, and at the same time it is very light.
However, it was not easy to explain this principle to the craftsmen, so Franz simply classified it as alchemy.
Vulcanized rubber technology was originally invented by Americans, but Franz did not intend to pay patent fees to the Americans, so he made this technology available in advance. It is similar to aluminum alloy technology and does not have a high threshold.
And under Franz's operation, the chemical community in Vienna can be said to be a star-studded one.
Avogadro, another unlucky guy in the history of science, also lived in Austria. He was a genius chemist who was unknown during his lifetime. Fifty years after his article was published, someone finally understood it and regarded him as a god. , and named the law he discovered Avogadro's law.
Avogadro, who received a salary of 500 florins at the University of Turin and worked as a scribe at night, heard that there was a job with an annual salary of 2,000 florins, and immediately went to Vienna with his family.
Friedrich Weller, 36 years old at this time, was the director of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Göttingen. He was at the peak of his life. Franz had rejected several invitations, and the University of Göttingen also attached great importance to him. Try your best to stay.
In the end, Adjani asked one of her subordinates to get through Weller's line by getting close to Weller's teacher Leopold Gmelin.
Weller respected his teacher Gemelin very much, so naturally he could not refuse the teacher's invitation, so the master and apprentice packed up and came to Vienna.
Leopold Gomeling was also a great chemist, but his personal ethics were not very good and he was easily controlled by Adjani's subordinates.
The Violet Knights have no effect at all in the hands of Madam Sophie. After being handed over to Adjani, some troublesome things can be solved at a very small cost.
Of course, Madam Sophie didn't do nothing. She stuffed those orphans and misguided women into the Violet Knights. The team that originally had only a dozen people has now grown to nearly 300 people, but the level is just low. It’s hard to say enough.
Adjani's former deputy, Caroline, has a less obvious scar on her face.
Robert William Bunsen and Kirchhoff came to Vienna while wandering around. Franz did not know these two people, so naturally he would not invite them.
The two hot-blooded people were not very famous. They had a great time in Vienna and had a lot of fun. When they woke up the next day, they saw carriages carrying gorgeous aristocratic ladies heading north of the city.
The two followed him all the way and entered the Royal Academy for Women in Vienna in a daze. It happened that the school did not have enough teachers.
The person in charge of admissions happened to be Professor Liebig. He was originally very disgusted with the two drunkards, and when he heard that they were majoring in chemistry, Professor Liebig became even more furious.
However, after some testing, the two of them turned out to be quite insightful, and Liebig was impressed by their talents and extended his hand.
"Gentlemen, congratulations on successfully passing the examination. Introduce yourself, Eustis von Liebig. It is a pleasure to work with you."
Robert William Bunsen and Kirchhoff were stunned at first, and then shook their heads.
"Impossible! You must be dreaming. If you were Liebig, I would be Plato." Bunsen said.
"Then I am Socrates," Kirchhoff continued.
"Why are you Socrates? I am older than you!" Bunsen said.
"It's amazing how old you are, and I drink more than you!" Kirchhoff retorted.
"I see that you are not sober. Let me help you sober up." Bunsen slapped Kirchhoff in the face.
"Hey! It hurts so much. Why does it still hurt so much in my dream? Wake up too!" Kirchhoff also slapped him in the face.
Kirchhoff and Bunsen slapped each other in the face, and Liebig finally couldn't bear it anymore and walked away, leaving only one sentence.
"Two lunatics."
After a while, Kirchhoff and Bunsen each covered their red and swollen cheeks and said.
"It doesn't seem like a dream?"
"Then it was really Liebig himself?"
"Wow!"
The two hugged each other and started crying again, not sure whether it was excitement or shame.
Charles Babbage, a genius inventor, invented the principle of the Analytical Engine (the predecessor of the modern electronic computer) in 1834. In this design, he imagined that any computer could be run based on instructions on punched cards that stored data. the possibility of mathematical operations and envisaged most of the other features of modern computers.
However, the British government refused to support his work on the grounds that his ideas were too advanced and his designs were difficult to realize.
Just when the genius was looking for a job, Vienna responded to him. Charles Babbage only wanted to complete his research, so he immediately accepted Franz's invitation.
No one in this era knew better than Franz how important computers were, and the funding Babbage requested was not very high, fifteen hundred pounds per year.
Babbage was accompanied by his assistant, Ada Lovelace, the only legitimate heir to Lord Byron and the first programmer in history.
They were British, and the subject they studied required a lot of mathematical calculations, so Franz arranged for some mathematicians to be their assistants.
Franz knew that Babbage's dream would not succeed. However, a hundred years later, people developed a real computer based on his research, which is what we later know as a computer.
Historically, Babbage did not receive any funding, but in order to turn the drawings of the Analytical Engine into reality, he spent all his property and became impoverished.
He had no choice but to put down the work at hand temporarily and discuss with Ada how to make some money, such as making some chess toys, some horse racing game consoles, etc.
In order to raise scientific research funds, they have to "go to sea" to "generate income". In the end, the two fell into a predicament of constant panic.
Ada reluctantly sent her husband's ancestral treasures to a pawn shop twice to maintain daily expenses, and these treasures were redeemed twice by her mother.
Poverty combined with endless mental work caused Ada's health to deteriorate rapidly. In 1852, with a beautiful dream for the success of the Analytical Engine and a silent sadness, the heroine software wizard died at the age of 36.
After that, Babbage persisted for another 20 years in poverty, and finally passed away unwillingly. In order to live and research, Babbage even worked as a tutor and maid to compete for food, which was the most despised by scholars of this era.
So after Babbage and Ada arrived in Vienna, the first thing they did was eat hazelnuts.
The chefs in the dining room had never seen such a miserable-looking professor. Fortunately, the women's college had a handicraft class, and a group of little lolita lined up to feed the two hungry professors with their own experimental products.