Magus Tech

Chapter 18 The Leiden Bottle

As the afternoon approached the evening, the sky above the palace quickly gloomed down, and the whole world revealed a strange amber light, indicating that a heavy rain would soon arrive.

In the square in front of Richard's palace, a guard soldier held a weird kite made by a craftsman and looked nervously at the sky above his head.

With a thunder, a thunderous thunder between the clouds of the sky sounded, and a cool breeze blew across the square.

The guard soldier turned his head and looked to the side, seeing that Richard nodded, "Goodong" swallowed, and bravely raised the kite.

The kite is not an ordinary kite, but a kite with thunder, with a small string of gold chains, a thin silver wire is knitted into the traction kite line, and a weird-shaped bottle is connected at the end.

This is the method that Richard came up with after three consecutive failed experiments-catching lightning with kites.

In fact, many people have this idea, and some people put it into practice.In the history of modern earth, in June 1752, the American scientist Benjamin Franklin took his son and raised a kite with a copper key into the air. When the kite was hit by lightning, the current flowed along the line of the kite. The wire was successfully drawn down, proving that lightning is also a kind of electricity, and Franklin has become famous since then.

This is considered to be the knowledge in the textbooks of the modern earth elementary school. There is no difficulty in operation. The only thing to consider is how to store the lightning that has been drawn down.Richard’s choice was the Leiden bottle, the bottle hanging at the end of the kite rope.

The Leiden flask was developed in 1745 by Dutch scientist Mason Brock in the history of modern earth.

The most original Leiden bottle is just a glass bottle or a ceramic bottle, and tin foil is attached to the inner and outer walls of the bottle. The tin foil in the bottle is connected to a metal rod inserted into the bottle through a metal chain. The upper end of the rod is a diameter A metal ball about a centimeter.This structure can store a certain amount of charge through the principle of a capacitor and release it when it is used.

Do not look at the simple structure, but the current released is strong enough. In an experiment in modern earth in 1748 in Paris, the current released by the Leiden bottle caused more than two hundred hand-in-hand monks to jump up collectively.

So this method can definitely meet the requirements.

Richard thought so, looking at the guard soldiers.

The wind in the square is gradually rising, and the kite in the hands of the guard soldiers rises and rises, reaching the sky.

"Wow," a flash of electricity flashed over, the gloomy ground suddenly lit up, and a huge dark shadow flew across the electricity, and then thunder came.

The guard soldier was startled, but he still held his teeth and held his breath, controlling the kite to continue to rise.

"Whooping", the gusty wind is getting angry, and the electro-optical flashes between the clouds.

Suddenly, "Boom" thundered and thundered, and a thunderbolt fell on a kite in the sky.

With a "boom", the entire kite was directly lit into a ball of fire, and the flame spread quickly down the kite line.

The guard soldier's face suddenly turned white, and his eyes suddenly widened.Looking at the flame, his hand loosened uncontrollably, and the Leiden bottle hanging at the end of the rope immediately fell towards the ground.

Edward, who was standing by, saw it, scolded, and rushed out.Kicked hard on the guard soldiers, and then the whole person threw out, reaching out to catch the Leiden bottle that was about to land.

At the next moment, Edward's eyes also stared, and he saw a blue electric light fall along the kite line into the bottle in his hand.A weak sense of numbness enveloped his body, and at the same time, the entire body of hair stood up uncontrollably, causing great fear in his heart.This was a fear of the unknown, which made him unable to move for a while.

For a long time, I felt the numbness on my body dissipated, the standing hairs returned to normal, and Edward took a deep breath before moving.He glared fiercely at the guard soldier next to him, holding the Leiden bottle and quickly ran to Richard in the palace.

As a result, he entered the palace with his front feet, and a heavy downpour fell on his hind feet. The whole world turned into a white piece in an instant.

Edward was surprised, slightly thankful, and then turned to look at Richard, and handed the Leiden bottle carefully: "His Royal Highness, everything is done."

"Huh." Richard took the Leiden bottle and nodded, not much to say, turned around and left.

Edward said quickly behind him: "His Royal Highness, you haven't eaten lunch, then dinner..." Before the result was finished, Richard's figure went up the second floor stairs and disappeared into sight.

Edward looked at it, smiled helplessly, and said to himself: "Ah, is this going to not eat all day again, if you don't eat tomorrow morning, it will really be another whole day. Alas, It’s really difficult for me to be a guard captain..."

...

The next morning, the sky was not completely bright.

Edward, who yawned, walked in front of the restaurant in the palace. His eyes glanced casually, and suddenly he glared to see that Richard appeared in the restaurant and was eating breakfast.

This!

Edward rubbed his eyes vigorously and found that there was nothing wrong with it. He walked into the restaurant with a bit of disbelief and greeted: "His Royal Highness, you... why are you up so early today?"

"Well, I just can't sleep." Li Cha said faintly, using a kitchen knife to cut the white bread into slices, smeared the sour jam and sent it to his mouth.

Li Cha was frowning while eating, as if thinking about something.

The tests done last night with Natural Lightning and Leiden Bottles naturally failed, otherwise they would not sit in the restaurant for breakfast so early.

Last night, according to the description of "The Chapter of Monroe", Richard conducted a second scientific attempt to reshape life.After entering the astral projection, it took a lot of effort to finally wake the conscious body to the flesh, and then released the electric current in the Leiden bottle towards the flesh, hoping to increase the biological current of the body and enter the "highly activated state", and then " Open up the source of law".

The current intensity of the Leiden bottle was indeed enough. In a very short time, Richard clearly felt that some kind of magical change had occurred in the body, but... it was only in a very short time.

Because the nature of the Leiden bottle is a capacitor, the current released is one-time and will not be used up.Therefore, when the stored charge is exhausted, the "high energy activation state" disappears instantly, the body returns to normal, and "opening up the source of law" naturally cannot be started.

"Sure enough, to really crack this second life remodeling, speculation and coincidence is not enough, you must really put some energy into it." Li Cha said in his heart.

It was like chewing wax to eat a piece of white bread covered with sour jam again, Li Cha already had a decision in mind.

It is not difficult to obtain a stable and strong current, even in the current medieval world, it can be done with simple materials.The main problem is that the process is cumbersome, and I have never wanted to be too troublesome, so I will test the fruit battery and the like.Now that it doesn't work, you can only use the most cumbersome, troublesome and direct method.

Reaching up to pick up the quilt, drinking the water inside, and wiping the mouth gently with a napkin, Richard looked up and said to Edward that he said, "Find the craftsman in the palace?"

"Now, here?" Edward froze slightly.

Richard nodded and confirmed, "Yes."

"Yeah, yes, His Royal Highness." Edward listened and walked out quickly.