After eating lunch hot dogs, check the progress of the laboratory's various experiments.
The accountants are Miss Reina, the head of the laboratory, and Hermes, the head of practice.
First of all, what Hermes lined up was quite a large can. [M]
Miss Reina explains the type of content and the date it was created.
"Stewed meat, stewed vegetables and pickled fruit syrup from right to right. The upper section is three months old, the middle section is two months old, and the lower section is a month old."
Me and Miss Micah moved their gaze in turn and sighed.
Was it bad?
Sincerely,
None of my strong canning development plans served the purpose of preserving the contents from rust and rupture.
"There is something really deformed, but did you get injured?
Miss Micah will confirm that she is in charge. I'm a little disappointed and not at all.
"Yeah, that's okay. However, there was a lot of content scattered around, so it might be a little dangerous if someone ruptured near it."
Well, you need to be careful.
Miss Micah and Miss Raina are not moving because they are accustomed to such failures.
Instead, Hermes looks worried because I'm dropping my shoulders too openly. [M]
"It's unusual for Ash to get depressed so easily... What's the matter with you? Compared to the failure of a kiln or a water wheel, it's nothing serious, right?
"Sure, but... I was really disappointed because I thought this would be an easy success."
After all, I thought it would be better to make a vessel of aluminum and steel, put the contents in it, warm it with hot water (or direct heat), and keep the lid warm.
It was very difficult to cover it, but I managed to solder it with tin using a prototype kiln. I don't use lead because I am afraid of poisoning.
Indeed, there was anxiety about long-term storage for several months.
I was told that the sterilization at high temperatures would be insufficient, and that many of them would be insufficiently sealed.
But I didn't think it was all gone.
First, all of these are disqualified as cans when the inside rust, that is, the inside corrosion of the can, is severe.
The cans from the memory of the previous life were definitely aluminum cans and steel cans, but was there any treatment on the inside?
Anti-corrosion plating?
The more you know, the better.
Among the things that were so common and simple to see, there was something unexpected.
What brilliant ideas were used for canning anyway?
I'm getting excited.
I haven't found any books that tell me more about this area so far.
There seems to be a history of preserved food, but is it a minor genre?
When this question is solved, it will feel good.
"Ah, wow. While I was thinking about it, I felt better."
Everyone looks at me with a bitter smile as I raise my face to Hermes' exclamation.
"It's a boulder, isn't it, Ash? If you think you're unusually depressed, you'll come back alone."
"There was no room for consolation....."
Miss Micah is as depressed as I am.
It seems to have caused some disturbance, but I realized that I could not make cans for the time being, so I told the plan proponent to that effect.
"Currently, there are no further improvements to preserved foods made from aluminum and steel. So, unfortunately...."
I sigh with my shoulders down.
"Let's make preserved food with glass bottles."
In addition to being fragile, it is more difficult to produce large quantities than cans in today's environment, so if possible it was a means that I didn't want to use, but I couldn't help it.
In the meantime, we need to preserve our food.
It is absolutely necessary for the leaders who are patrolling the territory today, and for themselves who will walk around the territory in time.
"In principle, it's the same as metal cans. Just the right material for the sealing lid... is there something wrong?
Looking at your faces again, everyone smiles bitterly. It's like the sight I just saw.
"It's a boulder, Ash."
Hermes laughs at her neighbor, Lady Reina, saying what she just heard.
Miss Reina also laughs in a stunning but cheerful tone.
"Yeah, it's true. The alternatives will come out soon. I don't have time to be discouraged."
"Absolutely. So, a glass bottle, huh? Isn't there anyone here who can make a boulder?
Hermes looks around and the inmates shake their heads.
I have a ceramics artisan.
"Yeah, I see. In the meantime, please prototype the pottery bottle. Let's take the glass proposal home and consider how to do it."
Talk to Quid and import some prototype glass bottles.
It's going to take a lot of work to make your own glass, so let's take a look at the results of the prototype and think about it.
Everyone nodded to the policy, so I clapped one hand to close the conversation.
Now, Hermes, how about a lathe?
"Fun!"
Above all, I don't want to hear about it, so I'm a little troubled.
No, it was well communicated that it was going well.
With such a good smile, Miss Reina stepped on Hermes' foot and distorted her good smile as I struggled to cut it out.
"Hermes, you know that's not what they're asking, right?
"Uh-huh, I know. Um, well, I think it's pretty stable now because I've been working out the problem while making metal cans. Maybe it's because I'm used to it."
The lathe was introduced to improve workmanship as part of an industrial workmanship improvement plan.
The structure itself is simple, but it exerts an application that can be said to be all-purpose. Both grinding and cutting are revolutionary mechanical forces in this world, where everything is done manually.
However, there is a problem with the power.
Hermes pointed his cheek at the point. [M]
"But after all, I'm using the power of the water wheel, so there are days when I can't use it, and at that time, I want to do something about the subtle changes in my senses."
Yeah, I guess that bothers you.
Compared to manpower, it is a water wheel that is much more stable and exerts a certain amount of force, but since it is only pushing the car into the river and turning it around, it will vary depending on the amount of water on that day.
When it rains, the momentum is too strong to break, and when sunny days continue, it is too weak to be used.
And unlike manpower, you can't add or subtract around it at will.
You can see the greatness of the electric power with excellent stability.
"After all, we also need to improve the water wheel. We need a more stable power source."
"Well, I guess so. We need to be able to work more precisely."
"I can't fly a plane."
When Hermes voices your ambitions, he laughs at them with a little light.
It is too inconvenient to leave the plane behind, but the water wheel power, which is limited by the increase or decrease in the river's water volume, is still too inconvenient.
"If the steam engine can be put into practice, there will be no problem with the water wheel....."
Consider the progress of the steam engine currently under study.
Even the test operation will take a year or two because it is at the stage of making a model like a toy.
... I predict for myself that the lab that is talking about the inconvenience of running water wheels is going to be able to test the steam engine in a year or two, and it seems like time jumps.
In fact, it can be said that you are doing a knowledge time slip.
Even though the ancestors who developed steam engines had a destination called "stable power," they started by finding a technical way to "then, what would it take to get there?", while I know that "this and this should be combined" (there are some errors).
The birth of new inventions ends with a cake if the "existing technology" is not well arranged around the "developer".
Whether water wheels, steam engines, or aircraft are new or correct combinations of technology passed down from that era.
Knowing the technology and how to combine it, I am much more advantageous. After that, you can develop the necessary technology that is not the existing technology.
In the case of steam engines, apart from the idea that leads to this, metal processing technology is necessary to create an outer shell that does not leak steam pressure and withstands steam pressure.
Improvements to kilns and furnaces starting with fire-resistant bricks to meet that need, and a lathe to your satisfaction, Hermes.
As soon as these two reach a certain level, prototyping of the steam engine will begin. There are researchers who are modeling.
I'm looking forward to it - but in the early stages of the fun, we'll still need to improve the power of the water wheel.
Also, since there are fuel consumption problems, it is not a loss to improve the performance of the water wheel.
Helpful, at least in decades.
"I understand your opinion. Let's check the literature to see if there are any good ideas for improving the water wheel."
Let's also consider the windmill.
Industrial forces cannot leave river basins alone.
Well, it's normal for industry to need plenty of water, but it's good to have plenty of options.
"So, is this good because we are going to improve the water wheel?
I still have the checklist.
This lathe was not only made with preserved cans.
I also made a bigger can.
The purpose is not to preserve food, but to recover the dry distillation of wood - the chemical substance contained in wood, the vinegar solution. And then you can make charcoal.
Dry distillation refers to the thermal decomposition of a material by heating to avoid ignition.
It sounds like a difficult chemical term, but the process of making charcoal is dry distillation in the first place. Traditional mountain dwellers and charcoal-grilled craftsmen can be referred to as dry-runners.
And the dry distillation itself is the same as the distillation.
Heat to avoid ignition and use vaporization temperature differences to select ingredients.
Simply put, that's it.
In order for the liquid to boil and become steam, the components contained in the wood are also heated to become steam.
The charcoal-grilling artisan aims for the charcoal after the steam, but what I want is the steam, so I have the ingenuity to recover it.
Large cans made in the laboratory have pipes attached to the top, and steam is transferred through the pipes to another can. When the steam is cooled in another can, the low boiling point material contained in the steam liquefies.
This is an overview of the main body of a large can, a prototype dryer.
For the time being, the parts where wood is heated are wrapped in brick kilns to increase thermal efficiency, or cans that collect steam are put on water to make it easier to cool.
There are also more efficient recovery methods, but the processing technology is limited.
At the prototype stage, I decided to give up that I couldn't experiment forever.
The material thus recovered is a watery sap of wood vinegar and a thick wood tar. It is a by-product this time, but it is also made of charcoal.
From here, the vinegar solution is further refined, heated and separated repeatedly, and the real substance is finally obtained.
Miss Reina shows me the clear, colorless liquid in the glass bottle.
"So, as Ash's example suggests, why don't you make this?
"Thank you very much. This color seems to have worked well.... the amount is very small."
"It's really scary."
It's not impossible for Miss Reina to look in trouble.
I'm surprised, too.
Because charcoal can also be used, the firewood should have been dried for about 10 kilometers, but the contents of the glass bottle have become 100 milliliters or not.
"This seems impossible for the time being for mass production."
"I see. At least we need to make the equipment bigger... because it costs a lot of fuel, we need to be more efficient."
"How long did it take?
When I asked, Miss Reina, who had been appointed head of the laboratory primarily to take care of the budget, gently presented the report.
I didn't even have to read it carefully. One digit is different from what I thought.
"Mass production is very impossible unless we can extract it while producing charcoal. If we do, we need to take a fundamental look at the current production of charcoal."
You'll have to ask the charcoal bakers to use this dryer.
You can't change the traditional method with two replies to a boulder. There are also problems with installation and maintenance costs of drying equipment.
"For the time being, a small amount of prototyping is the limit."
As I sigh, I remove the lid of the glass vial and replace it with a lid pierced with a thick string.
Before watching what I would do, I took out the burning twigs from the bottle and lit the glass bottle string.
Naturally, the string burns, doesn't burn out, and keeps burning.
Well done.
The contents of the glass bottle are extracted methanol-alcohol.
This glass bottle is a prototype of an alcohol lamp.
"Huh? What's going on?
After a while, Miss Micah stepped out into a fire that would never go out, not exactly burn out.
"This is with the candle. The core of the candle will not burn out unless the candle is gone, and this will not burn out unless the alcohol in the bottle is gone."
"Yes... is that so? Why?"
When you hear that, you get stuck in words for a moment.
"It's not the core that's actually burning, it's the alcohol stained in the core, right?
Was this the case?
I'll check it out next time.
... I wonder if I can find out.
I am not sure that many readable materials in this world are too practical and have no explanation of principles.
"So? If you're with a candle, aren't you okay with a candle?
"If you say that, you'll have trouble returning it. Originally, I thought it might be a substitute for candles."
The nights of this world are deep, and there is too little light to illuminate them.
I proposed to eliminate it.
If methanol could be taken efficiently, I was willing to promote it as a lighting for use with candles.
"Not really, but it's too cost-effective. Since there is no more soot than candles and the light is stable and high, it seems impossible for luxury oriented nobles and luxury merchants to... no, it is impossible to do so."
Originally, I only think rich people can buy candles and work at night, so there is not much demand.
I would sell something rare to a good man, but for me, the aim is to spread night lighting rather than sales.
"It's not likely that my original purpose will be fulfilled. Talk to Quid and Itsuki. There may be other uses."
Canning failed.
Alcohol lamps are unlikely to be used in the initial prospects.
The only lathe that can be said to be in good order is that there is still room for improvement, and this progress has not been favorable.
"Holy shit....."
Even though we have more friends and more resources to spend on that position, it's still unlikely to reach our dreams.
The popularity of this world is really tough.
"You can't stop yet."
Absolutely, if you keep running, you can afford to take a break.
I don't suppose you're going to let me run like this until I die, the reality of this world.
Fufu, if that's what you're going to do, we're really going through hell.
I've been ready for this for a long time. I'll show you hell.
I wonder who will regret it.
"Come on, everybody! Let's do more and more with this! We are indeed approaching the glory of ancient civilization!
At least I'm sure I'm not the one rolling along the path of dreams.