Chapter 25 The Industrial Age
He wrote down the required weapons, auxiliary equipment and other related equipment, and finally, Wei Qingyang wrote down three words at the end.
computer.
It can almost be said that all the projects above are inseparable from the support of computers. Without the powerful computing power of computers, you can't develop anything if you want to develop.
Not only that, the development of automated control equipment also requires computer chips as the basis.
To achieve milliseconds or even shorter responses, it is just a drizzle for computer chips, and it can be easily done. However, in such a short time, it is a bit difficult to make judgments and respond to external situations.
It can be said that computer chip technology is the biggest advantage of the world of science and technology to the world of cultivation.
However, it is quite difficult to develop this technology.
The principle of computers, simply put, is just some circuits such as OR gates and NAND gates. Anyone who can easily pull a person on the street knows it. But this is still a natural gap from practical computers.
Even though Wei Qingyang had specialized in computer principles and programming technology in his previous life, he still dared to say that he knew a little bit about computer technology.
The technical content of this thing is too high, and no one in the world dares to say that they have mastered all the computer-related knowledge.
But in this world, independently developing computers is something Wei Qingyang must do.
Fortunately, the knowledge he has mastered now, in his previous life, can already independently promote the first industrial revolution. We can barely start the development of computers now.
Originally, Wei Qingyang wanted to continue to develop step by step, but this voyage was a long time. But now, the discovery of the invisible barrier has strongly aroused his sense of crisis. It is hard to say that the original arrangements have to be adjusted.
Wei Qingyang decided to start from scratch and start designing and improving step by step from the most basic point. Only in this way can he master all the knowledge related to computers most comprehensively.
This is the foundation for the development of the entire computer industry in the future, and the foundation must be laid firmly, otherwise there will be many more risks and many more obstacles in the future.
He waved his hand and grabbed a lot of wood. With a wave of his hand, the wood was automatically cut and turned into wooden boards of varying lengths and thicknesses.
With another wave of hand, these wood chips were assembled together and turned into a piano, but with a much larger appearance, with a higher back seat and a thicker, strange shape.
It has many rotors and complex channels on it.
With a wave of his hand, many spiritual herbs containing a large amount of fiber were caught by Wei Qingyang from the medicinal field. After simple processing, they turned into silk threads.
I have to say that the spells and Taoist techniques in this world are also very useful. If there is no spell, just assembling this wooden machine, I don’t know how much time it will take Wei Qingyang.
This is his idea. No matter whether it is black and white cats, it is a good cat to catch mice. Whether it is spell or science, it is good to improve one's own strength and bring convenience to oneself.
What things are more convenient and useful to do with science, then use science. What things are more beneficial to do with magic, then use magic to do with magic, and finally combine the advantages of spells and science into one, remove the drought and preserve the essence, and achieve the goal of comprehensively improving one's own strength.
After installing the silk thread on the strange wooden machine in front of him bit by bit, Wei Qingyang began to ponder.
This is a loom.
But this is not an ordinary loom.
It can even be said to be the originator of supercomputers in later generations with powerful computing power that almost changed the entire world.
Because it is a programmable loom.
In the original world, in order to improve the efficiency of weaving, many people studied and improved it, and finally created it. What makes it better than other looms is that people can tell it what kind of patterns to make on the cloth through many round holes, without having to debug the machine with another pattern.
From this perspective, the workers in the original world who were responsible for punching holes on cardboard were the earliest programmers in the world. The guys who claimed to be programmers in that era when Wei Qingyang traveled through time were all weak.
After pondering about the loom for a long time, some improvements were made. Wei Qingyang put some hole-punched cardboard at its entrance and tried to start making it work.
But unfortunately, in an instant, the needles responsible for manipulating the threads were messed up, stirring the threads into a mess.
Wei Qingyang's first programming assignment failed.
Although Wei Qingyang was very familiar with computer manipulation in his previous life, and when he was conducting scientific research tasks, he was also very good at playing supercomputers, but facing this earliest prototype of computers, even if Wei Qingyang could use them for thousands of purposes, he still had difficulty.
As a last resort, Wei Qingyang buried his head in research for several days and straightened out his ideas before he made some improvements to it, but it still failed after trying.
It has been improved several times, and it took two months in total, and the loom can finally work normally.
In the Sword Formation of the Sky, the number one master of the solar system and the first super strong man to enter the "unknown" realm. He was an outstanding scientist in his previous life. He had seen Wei Qingyang, who had seen strong winds and waves. Facing this creaking loom full of ancient atmosphere, his heart was filled with a sense of accomplishment.
That was just seven or eight years older than in my previous life, and finally I had a clear understanding of a small process in the neutron star radiation model, and I was even more excited to publish several high-quality papers.
After confirming that the loom could operate normally and his idea was correct, Wei Qingyang waved his hand and the loom disappeared without a trace.
With experience in building a loom, Wei Qingyang immediately began to carry out the next step of research.
This step of research is still based on the programming model of punched cards. Such research can allow Wei Qingyang to more thoroughly understand the working principles of computers and lay the foundation for the development of practical computers.
So a small punch card was played with by Wei Qingyang. Based on these cards, many complex programs were compiled by Wei Qingyang, and the machinery used to apply these punch cards became more and more complicated.
Later, Wei Qingyang even made a machine that could automatically process data.
For such machines, the large stack of cards with many small holes according to some rules is a program. Enter the program and it can automatically execute it and output the results.
Using this kind of machine, Wei Qingyang can even perform automatic processing of large-scale data.
Later, Wei Qingyang introduced scientific and technological achievements from the steam era and began to try to use the steam engine as a power to build more advanced computing tools.
At this time, more relevant technologies are needed. Wei Qingyang needs to forge minerals of sufficient quality, study metallurgy technology, build machine tools to make parts, lubricating oil, etc.
However, at this point, Wei Qingyang is still not a problem, and it only takes a little more time.
So, after a few more months, the famous differential and analysis machines were manufactured.
At this time, although computers can perform many complex operations, their uses are limited in the end and it is difficult to help what Wei Qingyang wants to do. But if the next generation of computers can be developed, it would be different.
A newer computer can even do things that Wei Qingyang cannot do. For example, performing a large number of calculus operations at a faster speed, and even being able to barely be able to develop hydrogen bombs.
In the last world, the Manhattan plan of a major country basically used this kind of computer as the main computing tool.
However, it is not a simple matter to develop the next computer, and it is difficult to achieve in a short period of time.
Because the next generation of computers will use electric power drives, and at the same time they have more precise structures and more powerful functions, the types of technologies required are more complicated, and Wei Qingyang does not have enough technical reserves at present.
At least, he has not mastered electromagnetics, chemistry, materials science, engineering and other aspects.
The technological level of the steam era is no longer enough to support the further development of computers, and it is time to enter the electrical era.
So Wei Qingyang's R&D work suddenly became heavy. He had to use his ability that could be used thousands of times in full and thoroughly. Every mind entered a full-load mode, but even so, the progress was still slow.
There is no way, even if it is the world of cultivation, it will be extremely difficult to replace the work of the great scientist who is as bright as a star in history with his own strength.
Within the Sky-Breaking Sword Formation full of poetry and painting style, the rumbling sound of machines is increasing day by day, thick black smoke is floating, the clear river water begins to become dirty, and the spiritual peaks begin to be like patients with hair loss. Here is a bald piece, and there is a bald piece.
The crane's chirping began to be filled with sadness, and the spirit beast's roar also began to become listless. But Wei Qingyang ignored everything.
Now I don't care about them yet.
Fortunately, Lingyun Peak and this asteroid can almost find all the minerals that Wei Qingyang needs, so that his R&D work can continue.
A large number of minerals that are full of spiritual energy, which can be called natural treasures, were violently mined by Wei Qingyang. The spiritual energy was savagely drawn away to replenish itself, and the minerals were thrown into the blast furnace for thousands of tempering.
Wei Qingyang felt very tired. It was not physical fatigue, but the mental and mental fatigue. Every thought and every consciousness were extremely tired. He wanted to ignore anything and immediately lay down and sleep for several months.
But even so, the progress of technology is still slow.
"If my distraction-breaking magic method can be expanded by another hundred times. Even if it is only ten times."
Chapter completed!