The Steam Engine Research Institute's research on Type B steam engines is progressing smoothly. Tang Bei promised Fang Nan that most of the problems on Type B steam engines will be solved by the latest this winter and launched a practical Type B steam engine.

The practical type B steam engine is about to be born, and Fang Nan is preparing to start research plans related to steam engines in advance. Both steam engines and steam power machine tools are under the responsibility of the Steam Engine Research Institute. In addition, there are two important research plans for steam ships and trains, as well as other research plans related to steam engines but relatively minor.

The People's Army currently has few researchers working, mainly because of the lack of talents. The Steam Engine Research Institute has already been able to study two projects: steam engine and steam power machine tool, and it is impossible to hand over other research plans to the Steam Engine Research Institute.

So Fang Nan prepared to send several research plans to Guangzhou University for the teachers and students of Guangzhou University to conduct research.

This year is the second year since Guangzhou University was founded. Students have been studying at Guangzhou University for more than a year. Students are studying and teachers are learning. Both sides are making progress together. Researchers from various research institutes often come to give lectures.

The students and teachers are learning, but are actually thinking about some novel things themselves, such as creating a device that can lift heavy objects more effortlessly.

Once the students and teachers' research and inventions are useful to the People's Army, the People's Army will also give money rewards. They are useless to the People's Army but can be used in life. You can contact merchants and authorize merchants to produce and sell them.

The People's Army currently has only a very simple patent law, which barely protects the interests of patent owners. It is expected that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, a patent law with more complete rules will be promulgated, and things will be done the same.

During the more than a year of study, students and teachers of related machinery majors have already had a lot of understanding of machinery. Now Fang Nan will hand over the plan to study steamships and trains, and even Fang Nan will give them some guidance. He does not expect to develop steamships and trains that can be put into use in one or two years. It is a good thing to speed up the birth time of steamships and trains.

In addition, even if the practical type B steam engine is taken out, it will take time to take out the type B steam engine that can be installed on the ship and the locomotive.

After all, there are too few researchers. The only people who can directly conduct research on steam engines, steam ships and trains in the entire Chinese land are trained by the People's Army. It is because the technology has taken too much and has not been exposed to relevant knowledge. It is impossible to participate in the research.

Fang Nan could only wait for the People's Army to train batches of talents to speed up the progress of various research plans.

The education plan set by Fang Nan has been in progress rapidly. Every three years, the number of intellectuals in the People's Army-ruled areas will double. After three years and three years, the People's Army will not lack talents.

This is not the first time Fang Nan has come to Guangzhou University. Fang Nan comes to Guangzhou University once or twice a month, and occasionally teaches students in person to let the students know that the talent of the Grand Commander is far inferior to other teachers at Guangzhou University.

One day in May, Fang Nan came to Guangzhou University and was about to teach the students. When the students of Guangzhou University heard that the Grand Governor was coming to teach everyone, they were all so excited.

Students like to listen to the lectures of the Grand Commander. The Grand Commander has a higher sense of talent and a more interesting lecture. More importantly, the Grand Commander will bring them a lot of knowledge that is not even in the textbook.

There are also many geniuses among the hundreds of students at Guangzhou University. The textbooks that ordinary students originally needed to study for a year, but they only needed three months or even less time to complete the study. During this period, they were also inseparable from asking teachers for advice that they could not understand.

After learning the knowledge of the textbook, they want to learn more knowledge, and they will also practice some of the knowledge in the textbook by themselves.

However, this time many students were disappointed, and Fang Nan only taught classes to students and teachers in machinery-related majors.

In a large classroom, teachers and students from mechanical-related majors gathered here, while Fang Nan stood on the podium.

Fang Nan wrote three nouns on the blackboard, namely steam engine, steam engine ship, and steam locomotive.

"Everyone knows that a steam engine can use the power of steam to move the machinery. At present, the type A steam engine is widely used under the rule of the People's Army. Our Guangzhou University also has a type A steam engine. The type A steam engine is relatively simple and has fewer functions. It is mainly combined with a water pump to pump water.

Now let me tell you a good news. The Type B steam engine, which is more complex than the Type A steam engine, is about to be born. Its functions are also much more than the Type A steam engine. For example, we have hydraulic machine tools, and we can use steam power to drive the machine tools in the future.

We can try to load the steam engine onto the ship. We can install two large wheels on both sides of the ship, and use the steam engine to drive the big wheels to rotate. The ship can move forward without wind or manpower under the action of the steam engine. This is the steam engine ship.

Similarly, we can also press the steam engine onto the car. The car does not need to be pushed and pulled by the horse. Advancing under the action of the steam engine can effectively alleviate the situation of our People's Army's lack of cattle and horses.

You can also connect the steam engine to many things, and use the steam engine to replace human, animal power, hydraulic power, etc..”

While Fang Nan was speaking, he also used chalk to talk about simple pictures of ships and trains on the blackboard. Listening to Fang Nan's words, he looked at the simple pictures on the blackboard. The students and teachers' eyes were bright, as if they had fantasized about the specific appearance of ships and trains, watching the ships without sails sailing on the sea, and watching the trains that did not use manpower or animal power to spit smoke running on the road.

As he spoke, Fang Nan sighed slightly. He told the People's Army that there were insufficient researchers. There were not enough personnel. I don't know how long it would take to study the steam boat and steam locomotive. Then Fang Nan turned his attention to the students and teachers in the classroom.

"I wonder if any of you are willing to study steam boats and steam locomotives?"

As soon as Fang Nan finished speaking, a student immediately stood up and said, "Principal, I want to study steam locomotives."

"Principal, I want to study steam engine boats."

Most students and teachers in the classroom were interested in steam engine boats and steam locomotives. If they wanted to conduct research, Fang Nan did not refuse. Instead, he told the students and teachers that they could sign up for the steam engine boat project team and steam locomotive project team after class, and researchers from the Steam Engine Research Institute would enter the project team to participate in the research.

Of course, the main business of students and teachers is to learn knowledge in class, and then study steam boats and steam locomotives after class. In the future, some teachers and students will study other machinery. It doesn’t matter now that they study steam boats and steam locomotives. After all, they have no research tasks for the time being, and they all study according to their own preferences.

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