1855 United States Tycoon

When Scrooge came to New York, he not only brought Dorothea to see the Duck Castle, he actually had one important thing to do. It is here that they will conduct the world's first radio communication experiment across the ocean.

However, the so-called first time is actually not the first time. The real first experiment was quietly completed half a month ago. But at that time, Scrooge was still in the south, and secondly, the real first experiment was still uncertain about the effect of the experiment, so he didn't dare to find a reporter or advertise.

In fact, the first experiment was a nearly perfect success, which proved that the idea of ​​communicating through sky waves is completely feasible. And the success of such long-distance communication naturally means that this new technology can already enter the practical stage, and companies can be established to make money.

That being the case, the actual display of this technology must be as sensational as possible. So as early as a week ago, Scrooge had already let people promote it in major newspapers. So, on the day of the experiment, the vicinity of the originally scheduled experiment site was already full of people. There were staff from the MacDonald Foundation and reporters from various newspapers. Of course, at any time, crowds of onlookers who did not know the truth. The number of people is always the largest.

Because there were too many people, when Scrooge took Dorothea to the test site, he encountered a traffic jam. In the end, it took another half an hour before he passed through the crowd and entered the test site.

"How come there are so many people?" Dorothea said, "Northerners are so interested in science?" Well, since she saw the gold coin swimming pool made by optical principles in the duck castle, Dorothea has been very interested in science. There is interest in planting such a fun thing.

"Ah, Dorothea, this is easy to understand." Scrooge said, "You know, the amateur life of most so-called middle-class people is very boring. For example, what can you do after work? What? The book is too expensive, buy one or two, and read it all at once. I can read it over and over again, but I can memorize it, no matter how good the novel is. Going to the theater to watch a play? It is not affordable for everyone. In this way, there is something new and a large crowd of people watching, it is really unusual."

At this time, Edison and Maxwell had already arrived. Scrooge first walked over to greet Maxwell and introduced his own fiancée Dorothea.

However, Maxwell's mind is not here, not even on this experiment. Because he had known the situation of the last experiment a long time ago, he appeared here this time, completely advertising for the school.

"Oh, Scrooge, it's great to see you. I recently encountered a problem about blackbody radiation. Hell, I don't think I have a clue at all. Maybe you have some ideas?" Maxwell said.

"Ah, Mr. Maxwell, I don't understand this aspect completely. I can't help you in this aspect." Scrooge shook his head quickly.

"Ah, that's a shame." Maxwell took out an envelope and said to Scrooge, "Well, yes, I know you are coming, I have written the question and some of my thoughts in it, you can Go back and have a look, maybe there will be inspiration?"

"All right." Scrooge took the envelope a little helplessly.

"You seem to be a little afraid of Mr. Maxwell?" Dorothea whispered beside Scrooge when Maxwell was away.

"Yeah, you don't know how terrible Mr. Maxwell is. When I think of his large number of mathematical derivations, I think my head is a little bigger." Regarding Dorothea's statement, Scrooge honestly It was acknowledged.

"But I think Mr. Maxwell should be a very kind person." Dorothea said.

At this time, Edison came over and said hello to Scrooge: "Hello, Mr. MacDonald."

"Ah, Mr. Edison, how are you, when will the experiment begin?" Scrooge asked.

"Now, ah, look, Mr. MacDonald, it's already started." Edison said, pointing there.

Scrooge looked over there and saw a man flying a huge centipede-shaped kite.

"What is this for?" Dorothea asked.

"This is to make the antenna position higher." Edison replied.

The kite carried the transmitting antenna higher and higher, reaching a height of several hundred meters. At this time, the huge kite looked like a small black spot from the ground.

"The time is up, they should be ready too." Edison said, "start sending signals to there."

The so-called their side, of course, refers to Britain on the opposite side of the Atlantic Ocean. Over there, there is a group of people doing the same thing.

A telegrapher used a wireless telegraph to shoot a signal: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." This is the first chapter of "Genesis of the Old Testament". Scrooge hopes to use it to show that this experiment is great for mankind. Meaning.

According to the experimental setting, once the British side receives a signal, it will send a corresponding message back to United States. Sure enough, it didn't take long for the telegraph machine here to make a "dididi" sound, which was a call back from the Atlantic Ocean. Almost in the blink of an eye, the reply was translated: "The earth is emptiness and chaos, the abyss is dark, and the spirit of God is running on the water."

"Call them back again!" Scrooge ordered.

So the telegrapher took out the last preset telegram: "God said, if there is light, there will be light."

"God said, if there is light, there will be light."

On the other side of the Atlantic, in Britain, there were also large groups of people here. When the final signal was confirmed, people cheered.

"His Royal Highness, the transoceanic communication experiment is very successful." Lawrence Knight reported to Prince Albert.

In the original history, Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, died of typhoid fever at the end of 1861. However, in this time and space, although the prince also contracted typhoid fever at the end of 1861, he escaped from the hands of the god of death by using a lot of sulfa. However, this death on the verge of death still scared Prince Albert and his wife Queen Victoria. At the Queen’s strong request, Prince Albert reduced his intervention in political affairs. Over the years, the Queen and his wife have rarely appeared in the public eye. On many occasions, their son Crown Prince Edward, who was later King Edward VII, replaced them. Prince Albert has an extraordinary love for science. After hearing the news about this experiment, he was naturally also very interested. However, he was inconvenient to watch the experiment in person, so he dispatched the Lawrence Knight to learn about the situation.

"Lawrence, do you know the significance of this invention?" Prince Albert asked.

"This invention will bring great wealth." Lawrence said, "The real-time communication between the two sides of the Atlantic will make the business exchanges between the New World and the Old World more convenient. With this, our Macdonald The husband doesn't know how much money he can make." Lawrence Knight replied.

"Lawrence, since your niece married and went to McDonald's house, you have become more and more obsessed with money." Prince Albert laughed, "Think of anything, the first thing that comes to mind is money. ""Haha." Lawrence also laughed, "His Royal Highness, you have to understand that people will love money more and more as they get older."

"No kidding." Prince Albert said. "Can you tell what this means of communication means to our country? Well, Edward, what do you want to say?"

"Father, I think with this, our control over those overseas territories can be greatly strengthened." Prince Edward stood up and said, "Especially overseas territories like India, which are extremely important to the United Kingdom. However, it takes a long time for news about what happened there to be sent back to Britain, and when we make a decision, many times have passed. For example, the Indian rebellion back then, if we had such technology at that time, As soon as the signs of rebellion appear, we can react and suppress it."

"Well, that's good." Prince Albert nodded softly, "Anything else?"

Prince Edward thought for a while, then said: "There is also the Navy. If the Navy has this on its warships, we can always mobilize naval forces even thousands of miles away based on the new situation we know. This is really very useful. ..."

"Well, that's good. Lawrence, you should already understand the meaning of this thing for the United Kingdom. Now, we must quickly get its patent..."

But not all people were inspired by this experiment. Among the crowd of onlookers, there were also a few people with pale faces.

"Field, what can I do?" a person asked.

"What else can we do? Our plan, our years of hard work, are all over." The man named Field said frustratedly. For many years, he has been working hard to be able to lay a cable across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1858, he even successfully laid such a cable. At the beginning, the cable did not disappoint him. There was a report from the United Kingdom. The news of the price of gold can benefit him as much as thousands of dollars (the speed of sending messages on the transoceanic cable is very slow, because the signal attenuation takes one to two minutes to transmit one letter.) However, the good times will not last long. After only more than two weeks, the cable could no longer transmit any signal-investigations showed that the voltage of more than two thousand volts applied to allow the signal to travel thousands of kilometers broke down the cable. Everything that made him painstakingly managed was soaked.

But this did not bring down Field. He started from scratch again and worked hard for the new cable project. He contacted scientists and engineers to solve one technology problem after another. Now when he was ready to fight again, he appeared. Such an experiment. Yes, this is just an experiment. In order to communicate with the other side of the ocean, they have to use a kite to raise the antenna to a height of several hundred meters. Obviously, a time is scheduled for each report, and it is not realistic to raise the kite. However, Field understands that this is not a big problem. It is much easier to build a steel tower hundreds of meters high from the ground than to lay a cable across the Atlantic Ocean. Moreover, the speed of sending and receiving messages via wireless telegraphy is much faster than that of his cables. Perhaps he should be thankful that when this experiment was successful, his second cable had not had time to start laying. However, in any case, the money he invested in will never be rewarded. In fact, from the moment that Scrooge's experiment was successful, he had become an obscure poor man. Field turned his head lonely, left the bustling crowd, ready to go home. At this moment, a person stopped him.

"Are you Mr. Field who used to lay transoceanic cables?" the man asked.

"Yes, what's the matter?" Phil asked.

"Mr. MacDonald is very interested in your efforts, and I hope to talk to you."

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