Chapter 359 Research Projects

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Rebecca was a little nervous when she came home dirty-because in fact she didn't notice the stains on her hands and face at all, so she walked away from the Magic Technology Research Institute with the oil stains all the way. When I came back, I didn't realize that I didn't wash my face until I was reminded by the servant after I entered the house. In the past, this kind of behavior was usually knocked on the head...

But after seeing what was on the high-level desk, all her nervousness and headaches vanished.

"New machine design drawing!" The girl jumped up excitedly when she saw the blueprint on the table, and reached out to grab it, "Let me see..."

Gawain slapped the girl's dirty paws back with a slap: "Look at your hands!"

"Oh!" Rebecca hurriedly retracted her hand and rubbed her body twice (just this action, at least five hits on the head in front of Hetty), and then cautiously leaned over to the desk and looked at the weird looking machine, " What's this for...hey, do you mean to put the paper under this roller? Print something?"

Rebecca deserves to deal with all kinds of machinery and equipment on weekdays, and she has a certain understanding of Gawain's thinking habits. The moment she saw the printing press, she roughly guessed its function, and omitted it. Gawain had a lot of trouble explaining, and the latter nodded: "This is a printing press."

"Printing, I know this," Rebecca nodded, "the textbooks used in school, the checked and printed paper used in the office, and the labels used in the alchemy factory are all printed... You Is the printing equipment improved? But this thing... looks completely different from the one used in the territory."

Rebecca knew what printing technology was currently used in the territory-in fact, it was the technology that Ansu already had, using a wax plate to engrave words and patterns on it to form inscriptions, and then mix a kind of bitter root. The mud of rattan powder is evenly poured on the wax plate, and then heated. After heating, the mud of bitter root rattan powder will become a hard mud plate, and the wax will melt, so that the engraving plate of Yangwen is obtained, which can be used for printing. something.

However, this method of plate making has great limitations. First of all, it cannot be wrong when engraving. Once it is wrong, the entire wax plate will be scrapped. Secondly, after covering the wax plate, the bitter root vine mud needs to stand for several hours to eliminate air bubbles and initially solidify. , and then it can be heated and hardened. The final hardened yangwen board still has the problem of brittleness and brittleness, so be careful when using it.

Even so, this printing technology is quite advanced - the nobles used this method to print a large number of letterheads and official letter paper with family patterns, which is also its main application method.

And the use of this type of printing technology in printing books is a precedent set by Cecil, and the reason is very simple - only here are a large number of people literate,

Only a lot of people need to read...

In fact, Cecil led the use of typography to mass-print cheap books, printing the text on cheap paper, without adding any metal and gemstone decoration to the cover of the book, nor did it use a leather jacket or tie to fasten it. The practice of the spine, in the eyes of traditional scholars in this world, is an "insult to sacred knowledge".

Many scholars came to Cecil's Land, and they were quite critical after seeing those low-cost and "shoddy" books. In their traditional concept, books must be made of fine parchment, and at worst, frosted paper. Manufactured, transcribed by hand or shorthand magic, signed by a famous scholar, and finished off with a whole host of flamboyant, intricate, expensive decorations.

However, Gawain completely ignored these pedantic voices - anyway, he was a founding father who spoke with more prestige than anyone else, and he was not afraid of any challenges when it came to the word "speaking right".

Rebecca studied Gawain's design with curiosity. At first, she thought it was an "improvement" of the existing printing technology on the territory, but she soon realized that the working principle and efficiency of this machine Far from being comparable to traditional printing techniques.

The basic "plate making-transfer" concept is still there, but the way this machine works is too advanced - the words "continuous printing" appeared in this girl's mind for the first time.

Sometimes, all the technicians lack is just a direction.

"What needs to be solved now is 'plate making', or how to quickly and conveniently transfer text to this printing cylinder," Gao Wen pointed to the core part of the machine, talking about the problems he was currently encountering, "I have three requirements. First, it is fast and convenient. The process of converting text into imprints on the cylinder must be faster than the current plate making technology; second, it is easy to edit, and it cannot be like traditional engraving, where a wrong engraving will destroy the entire plate, Therefore, this requires that the process of transferring the text to the roller is reversible, or that the text can be modified and reset before the transfer; third, it is also related to the second item, that is, the roller can be used multiple times , the imprint on it can be erased, not only to reduce costs, but also to improve the efficiency of the device."

"Wow..." Rebecca growled, "It sounds... very challenging."

"Yes, it is indeed a bit of a challenge," Gawain looked at Rebecca with a serious face, "that's why it was handed over to you—or rather, to your Institute of Magical Technology to solve this problem."

Rebecca seemed to understand but didn't understand: "Magic Technology Research Institute..."

"The Institute of Magic Technology exists to solve these application technical problems, and the working methods of large-scale comprehensive laboratories are also designed to solve these problems," Gao Wen smiled and nodded, "There are various creative Talented craftsmen, mechanics, rune masters, and magicians gather in a laboratory as 'Magic Technicians', using their own ideas to create ideas one after another, discussing, helping each other, realizing and verifying together , put all the resources to work on a project, and that's what those labs do."

He paused, and when he saw Rebecca's thoughtful appearance, he continued: "After all, a person's creativity is limited, but many people together can exert creativity far beyond the sum of the numbers. I give You come up with a direction, and then you bring your team to play with it — bring everyone’s ideas to the table, don’t be afraid to make mistakes, and you’ll see how incredible the power of a large lab is.”

Rebecca's eyes opened wider and wider, and at the end they even shone slightly, she suddenly happily grabbed Gawain's arm and shook it vigorously: "I understand, I understand! So it's like this... ...that's the right way to use a large laboratory!"

"Don't shake first, don't shake... You said that you have such a strong hand as a mage," Gawain tapped Rebecca's head lightly, broke free from the other party and said, "Before bringing the project to the laboratory , tell me your thoughts first - do you have a solution?"

"emmmmm..." Rebecca tried to think with her fingers against her lower lip, and after a while she spoke uncertainly, "Actually, there is a little idea... I thought of the magician's shorthand magic."

As Gawain expected, after encountering such a problem that seemed to be impossible to solve with machinery, the first thing Rebecca thought of was magic—this is also the most normal way of thinking as a mage. Although Rebecca's spell talent is a bit subtle, the outsider's idea of ​​"solving problems with magic" obviously still works for her.

"Shorthand magic..." Gawain nodded slightly, "I know this kind of spell, it is one of the relatively low-level but very useful formal spells, it should be from the arcane department, right?"

"Yes," Rebecca gestured while nodding, "On the enchanted parchment soaked in special potion, shorthand magic can directly transfer the clearly remembered picture in the mage's mind into words or patterns, if not If the parchment is enchanted, the mage can also use the enchanted quill to make a relatively inefficient 'shorthand', this spell also has another name, called transfer magic..."

Gao Wen raised his eyebrows: "Your theoretical knowledge is okay?"

Amber stuck out his tongue: "When I was a child, I would be spanked if I couldn't carry it on my back... My aunt said that as a mage, it is because of talent limitations that I can't learn other spells, but if I don't even know the theoretical knowledge, it's true. If you don't work hard, you need to be punished properly."

Gao Wen: "..."

"Shorthand magic is probably an idea, but there is still no way to solve the problem of quickly converting text lines into imprints, and I remember that there is no magic circle in shorthand magic - this is a spell that must be released by the mage," said Rebe. After Ka's life was really not easy as a child, Gawain said while thinking, "So the current rune logic can't handle it, and it doesn't meet our principle of 'making it available to ordinary people'. But let's keep this for now. Thinking, you can go back and study again."

Rebecca left with half-finished printing machine drawings and half-finished ideas in her head, while Gawain walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the study, and fell into contemplation while watching the gradually sinking sunset outside.

Just as he thought before - his knowledge reserve and creativity are limited after all, and even with memory enhancement and insight beyond this world, he is just a mortal.

He could come up with ideas for a new type of printing press book, but he couldn't come up with a practical and fundamental technical solution.

But he has no regrets about it, because from the beginning, he recognized it.

This world has its own technical system, and the people in this world also have their own wisdom and creativity. He does not need to be an all-rounder who can invent all technologies and all systems. People gather as much as possible on their own territory, then organize them rationally, and give them a "direction".

He can't think of how to make a printing equipment that can work continuously and is fast and convenient, but he can tell the technicians in the territory and tell those people that he needs such a equipment-he can also put the general ideas and technologies of this equipment. The requirements are described in general terms, which can greatly improve the speed of technology research and development.

He didn't know if this development method was right or not, but he thought it was the most suitable development method for himself, the Cecil collar, and the world.

He looked back, returned to the desk, took out a piece of paper, and wrote a new plan.

The technical breakthrough of the new printing press cannot be completed in three or two days, but before that, some things are not impossible to appear in advance, at most, the efficiency is a little lower.

Under Gao Wen's pen, a line of large characters appeared:

About the concept of newspapers, and distribution plans.