Chapter 19 CHAPTER VII BLECRANT'S FACTORY

The guests immediately accepted the invitation.They looked around for the last time: the hornets continued their ring dance, and the attackers were afraid to approach the defensive zone. The guests followed the engineers through the factory's woodworking, forging and assembly halls.Finally, walk into the gardens next to the palace. A high wall blocks the view from the palace.But when they walked another fifty meters or so, Gary.The towers of Kirier's palace are exposed on the wall.At this moment, gunshots sounded immediately from the top of the tower, bullets whizzed past their heads, and they retreated immediately.

Fool!Kamare said leisurely, holding up a hand. This is signaling.The guests immediately heard another whistling sound, and involuntarily turned their heads to look at the factory.But the engineer pointed them to the palace: the wide-angle mirror device on the tower disappeared. This is to teach them a lesson, Camare said, to let them know that I have air mortars too, and more than they do.It was originally made by me! But, sir, Amaj.Floras asked, since you also have a mortar, why not use it to attack Gary.What about Kyriel? I?The engineer muffled, asking me to destroy the fruits of my labor?

Amijay.Floras and his companions exchanged a look.Yes, what a strange man this is!His problem is that he is too arrogant.They walked all the way silently, at this time the palace had already learned the lesson and did not dare to disturb them anymore. We came to an interesting place, Kamare said, which was the power plant of the past.You see, this is the first steam engine.Back then, there was no other fuel, so the boiler was fired with firewood.However, this didn't last long.I made it rain heavily in this area, and after the river had flowing water, we built a hydropower station twelve kilometers away from the city downstream of the river.Since then we have used electricity as power.

They went into another hall. This is the transformer room.The current from the hydropower station is transformed here. how?Amazed Amijay.Floras asked, could it be that so many machines were shipped from other places? Just a small part.Camare replied that we made most of the rest ourselves. But you need materials, Floras retorted.Who will provide you with material in this desolate desert? certainly.Camaret replied, pausing for a moment in thought, you are right, Monsieur Floras.How did the first machines and the materials for the rest get here?To be honest, I hadn't thought of this before.As soon as I asked, they accommodated me, your question just caught my attention

How many people would have died to transport all this across the desert before you had flying machines! Indeed it is.Camare said, turning pale. Where is the money?Are you very rich? I?cried Camaret. I have never had fifty centimes in my pocket since I came here. 【Note】Centre is the name of the French coin.One hundredth of a franc. So where does the money come from? This is Gary.Kirier Kamare said timidly. Ah, I see!Where does his money come from?Is he a billionaire your gary .Kiliel? Camare spread his hands.He was Amijie.Floras was bewildered and depressed by this series of questions.Dr. Sadoley sympathized with his situation.

Let's study this later, he said as if to relieve the siege, let's continue to visit now. Camare wiped his forehead with his hand and led the guests into the second hall. This is the compressor, he began, his voice changing with excitement.Liquid air or liquid gas is used.I found a substance that is absolutely insulated, and using it as a raw material to hold liquid gas in a container can not only keep a constant temperature, but also not expand.This invention has enabled me to realize many other inventions.For example, aircraft with a large flight radius [Note] is one of them.My aircraft has three characteristics, namely: high power, high lifting force, and good stability.When a bird in the sky encounters a storm, it needs no calculations to maintain its balance.My robot bird can also automatically maintain its own balance.As you have seen, each aircraft has two wings mounted on the upper end of a five-meter-high cylinder. The lower end of the cylinder is a small room in which the motor, driver and passengers are located.In this way, its center of gravity is low and the connection between the cylinder and the wing is movable.When the wings are partially or fully connected to the cylinder by means of the vertical rudder and the horizontal rudder, the aircraft can fly around an axis in a circle with a very short radius.If the wing deflects longitudinally or laterally without being controlled by the rudder, a new angle is immediately formed between the cylinder and the wing due to the gravity of the body.In this motion, in a direction parallel or perpendicular to the wing, an immediate counterbalancing force is created.Then the wings are immediately adjusted to the corresponding position, so that, as I have already told you, the deviation of the aircraft is immediately and automatically corrected.

【Note】The flight radius is an aeronautical term.After the plane is fully refueled, it does not land on the outfield, and does not refuel in the air. After flying to the destination, it can fly back to the original airport from which it took off.The distance between these two points is called the flight radius. Marcel.Camare closed his eyes halfway, explaining to the guests like a professor giving a serene lecture. Now we come to the second question.When the aircraft took off, the wings drooped close to the cylinder.At the same time, the propeller shafts, located in the vertical plane of the wing, immediately rose.Thus, the aircraft becomes a helicopter.But when it reaches a certain altitude, the wings spread out, and the propeller shaft also tilts forward and reaches the horizontal orientation.At this time, the propeller is pushed forward, and the helicopter becomes an aircraft again.As for power, it is provided by liquid gas.This liquid is stored in the steam chamber, controlled by a set of pistons, continuously flows into the cylinder, and immediately vaporizes, generating a huge explosive force to drive the machine to run.

What is the speed of your aircraft?Floras asked. The speed is 400 kilometers per hour, and the maximum range is 5,000 kilometers.he replied. Now we are located in the center of the factory.Camare said.At this point they were back on the tower again.There are ten floors in this tower. Do you see the tall metal column on top of it?It's called a wave reflector.In addition, there are countless smaller reflectors throughout the surface of the tower. Did you mean wave reflector?Doctor Sadore asked. I'm not going to give you physics lessons, Camare said with a smile.However, some clarification is necessary.The famous German physicist Hertz[Note] discovered it a long time ago.When a spark breaks out between the two poles of the induction coil, an oscillating discharge can be generated externally, that is, the positive and negative poles are switched to each other.The speed of oscillation, or frequency, is quite high.Up to five million times per second.This discharge phenomenon makes the ether filled in the entire universe and between all material molecules to oscillate.This kind of ether vibration that spreads around is called Hertzian wave.Do I understand?

[Note] Hertz (18571894) German physicist.The nature of electromagnetic waves is determined by experimental methods; Maxwell's electromagnetic wave theory is verified. Fantastic!exclaimed Balsac.Among these people, his scientific knowledge is relatively small. Before me, Hertzian waves were considered a strange phenomenon in the laboratory.It can be exploited to electrify distant or near metallic objects.The main disadvantage of this type of wave is that it travels in concentric circles, like the ripples caused by a stone thrown into a pool.Its energy also spreads to the surroundings and gradually weakens.It is not very strong beyond a few meters from the center of the oscillation.Am I clear?

very clear!Amijay.Floras said. It had been discovered before me that such Hertzian waves, like light waves, can be reflected back.But at the time they did not draw any conclusions.Thanks to the discovery of superconductors, I designed a wave receiver that is only sensitive to waves of a certain frequency.This kind of receiver can produce induction to the wave of certain frequency, moreover, also can produce induction only to this kind of wave, the possible number of various frequencies is infinite.I can make an infinite number of engines, and no two of these engines can produce the same frequency of Hertz waves, do you understand this?

It's a little difficult, Barsac admits, but I'm intrigued. But, I'm done.Camare said that we have this kind of engine, and we have made a lot of agricultural machinery.The kinetic energy required by these machines is transmitted by this or that reflector placed on the tower.The same goes for launching the Hornet.Each of its four propellers is equipped with a motor of a certain frequency.If I had a whim, I could destroy entire cities in this way, too. Can you destroy an entire city from here?cried Balsac. It's very simple, when Gary.Kiriel asked me to make the city an impenetrable fortress, and I did.In all the streets, under the houses, under the palace, even under this factory, there are large stores of explosives with caps.The detonating devices of these detonators have a certain frequency, and only I know these frequencies.If I want to destroy the city, I just need to send Hertz waves of corresponding frequencies to each detonator. Ameijie who is hastily recording in the notebook.Floras wanted to ask him if he was going to use this method to get rid of Gary.Kiliel?But he still held back rationally. What is this tall column on the tower used for?Doctor Sadore asked. As soon as the Hertzian wave hits the ground, it is absorbed by the ground.In order to launch it to a distance, it must be carried out on a high platform.I not only want to launch it far away, but also launch it high into the sky.This is more difficult, and this task is accomplished by this cylinder.It is connected to the transmitter, and there is a reflector on the top. Why launch it to high altitude? for artificial rainfall.This is what Gary and I were at the beginning.Kiriel knew when and invented the design principles of this machine.Use this cylinder to emit Hertzian waves into the atmosphere to charge the water droplets in the cloud layer. When the potential difference between the cloud layer and the ground reaches a sufficient level, a heavy thunderstorm will occur. But the sky needs clouds!Doctor Sadore said. Of course, but there are still clouds from time to time.The problem is that it is not necessarily above this place, but in other places, when there is arable land and trees grow, the water cycle will be more regular, and clouds will often appear.As soon as the clouds appeared, I pushed a button, and the Hertzian waves from the transmitter began to bombard it with a thousand horsepower. What a miracle!The audience all cried out. I believe that such waves could be used to telegraph or telephone anywhere on the earth without using wires. No wires?the audience shouted again. Yes, it is very simple.Camare convincingly said he was getting more and more excited.You see, here is an ordinary Morse telegraph, which I have connected to a closed circuit.The task now is to use switches to control the current that emits Hertzian waves in a closed circuit.When the switch is pressed, the cylinder emits Hertzian waves; when the switch is raised, the transmitter stops working.By properly manipulating the transmitter, Hertzian waves can be sent in the direction of the hypothetical receiver.If the direction of the receiver is unclear, just remove the reflector, and the Hertzian wave will be launched in all directions.If there is a receiver somewhere, I have every confidence that it will pick up the Hertz waves I send.It is a pity that there is no such receiver at present, but you better try it, let's say there is such a receiver somewhere!Who do you want to send a telegram to?Camare sat down by the transmitter. I don't know a single person in this country.Jeanna smiled.Unless it's Captain Martharei.After she added this sentence, her face turned slightly red. Just call Captain Martharei.Camare said, getting to work.Where is he, this captain? I think he's in Timbuktu now. Timbuktu, Camare repeated, continuing to flip the switch, I think Jana.Buxton roughly please forgive.Jeanna interrupted him. Captain Marthare only knew me by my alias, Morna. It didn't matter, because the telegram couldn't be reached anyway.But let's stick with the name Morna.The full text of the telegram is as follows: Hurry up to rescue Ranna.Morna, Camare, the female captive of Blackrant, paused for a while. The place of Blackrant is not known to people, so he should add: latitude 15 degrees 50 degrees north, longitude east. He suddenly jumped up. !Gary.Kiriel cut the power! His guests gathered around him, not understanding what was going on. I have already told you that our power supply is supplied by hydropower stations.Now Gary.Kiliel cut us off, that's all. So isn't the machine going to stop?Doctor Sadore asked. has stopped.Camare replied. What about the wasps? They have fallen to the ground, no doubt about it. So these wasps were Gary.Kiriel captured?Jana.cried Buxton in alarm. I still don't quite believe it.Come on, the engineer stressed, let's go up there and you'll see it doesn't matter. They quickly climbed the tower and entered the wide-angle mirror installation.There is a trench around the wall outside the factory wall.The wasps were all lying there motionless.Cheerful lads cheered triumphantly in the square and resumed their attack.Some jumped into the ditch to deal with the wasp that had just scared them to death.But before they got close to the wasp, they hurried back and tried to jump out of the ditch.However, they were not able to do this.Fell into a ditch, apparently dead. Their lives are so worthless.Camare said dryly, I expected this to happen and took precautions.When they turned off the power, the liquid carbon dioxide in the wasp flowed into the trench, where it immediately vaporized.This gas has a higher specificity than air, so it stays at the bottom of the ditch.Whoever fell into the ditch was suffocated to death. Poor man!Jana.Buxton sighed. There is no way, Camare said.We cannot save them.As for our aircraft, it can be powered by liquid gas.I've got a lot of this gas in store and lo and behold, they've been activated and the wasps are out. Really, the Hornet's propellers started to move.The merry lads were busy retreating in the direction of the palace. Camare turned to the guests, looking very excited, but his eyes became more and more disturbed. It seems that we can have a good night's sleep.He said proudly.