Chapter 226

The success of the new rifle test not only made Ferguson and others overjoyed, but also made stone bear feel a little complacent.

It's been more than seven months since I came to this world. I've been busy with so many things. Now I finally have an achievement that I can win.

Compared with salt making, oil pressing and wine making, the most proud thing for stone bear is to develop a rifle that is at least ten years ahead of this era.

Steelmaking, refining nitre, purifying sulfur, smelting lead and tin, improving broaching machine and even all metal machine tools under development are all for laying the foundation for these ten new rifles.

The success of these ten new rifles also proves that all the previous work has not been done in vain.

That is to say, now the gaoshu tribe has a relatively primary industrial foundation. The next step stone bear needs to do is to continue to develop the industrial foundation of the gaoshu tribe in depth and breadth on the premise of consolidating this foundation.

For example, the development of alloy steel, the development of all metal machine tools, and the erection of waterwheel are expanding our industrial base to the depth. As long as all metal machine tools are developed, even the simplest machine tools, combined with the successful development of alloy steel, the steel processing in the future will not be as difficult as it is now.

The erection of waterwheel is a kind of work to liberate manpower. At present, almost all the work of gaoshu tribe is done by manpower. As the saying goes, "manpower is sometimes poor", so Shi Xiong is now starting to build water tankers to turn some long-term repetitive work requiring strong labor force into water power.

It's not time for the steam engine to be improved, so the waterwheel is the best choice for new power.

Now, on the Bank of the litterliver River in the west of the tribe, two 10 meter high water tankers are being built. The old wood family and dozens of strong tribal people are building the two water tankers. Once these two water trucks are successfully built, the development of gaoshu tribe will usher in a peak period.

The hydraulic resources of the litterliver River are very good. Although the section of the river in the west of the tribe is forty or fifty meters wide, the flow of the litterliver River, which has just roared from Dawu Mountain, is relatively fast in this section of the river.

On the west side of the wharf built by the tribe, there is a river of two or three hundred meters, which is very suitable for erecting water tankers. So Shi Xiong has arranged for Lao Mu's family to start the construction of water tankers.

The water wheel is no different from artifact for Indians, but it is a common thing for people like stone bear who come from the future and for Europeans today.

Now let alone in Europe, even in colonial cities or towns in the new world, there are a lot of waterways working hard on both sides of the river.

Before the steam engine was improved, waterwheel was the best power source that human beings could use.

The cylindrical roller bearing that Jack Williams made before was severely criticized by the stone bear. After that, the alchemist from England began to improve the bearing.

In addition to his daily research and development of all metal machine tools and gears, he put almost all his energy on the improvement of the bearing. In addition, Shi Xiong gave him some advice from time to time. Therefore, in less than a month, this kind of cylindrical roller bearing has been basically improved to meet the requirements of Shi Xiong.

With this barely usable bearing, the efficiency of the waterwheel will be increased by N times.

After all, in this era, there are no bearings on the waterwheel built by Europeans. The main shaft of the waterwheel and the supporting bearing bush of the waterwheel frame are hard ground. Even Europeans add various kinds of grease to reduce the friction, but it is hard ground.

Jack Williams' improved cylindrical roller bearing is ready to be used on the main shaft of the two water tankers erected by gaoshu tribe.

The two large cylindrical roller bearings will be stuck on the cast bearing frame, and the bearing frame will be fixed on the support frame of the waterwheel. Then when the waterwheel turns, the main shaft of the waterwheel will drive the bearing to rotate, instead of grinding with the bearing bush.

The speed of waterwheel is not fast, and the size of this kind of cylindrical roller bearing is relatively large, so even if there are some errors in the cylindrical roller, after adding grease, this error is also within the acceptable range.

Especially after the use of bearings, there is less huge friction between the main shaft and the support frame of the water truck, and the work efficiency of the water truck will be greatly improved.

Once the waterwheel is built, through the transmission of gears, a waterwheel can drive several workpieces to work at the same time.

At that time, the crushing of materials, which requires a lot of manpower or animal power and lasts for a long time, can be completely handed over to the water driven grinding plate, and only one or two people need to take care of it, which can greatly liberate manpower.

Also useful blast furnace smelting iron must blast equipment - bellows, can also be handed over to hydraulic drive. With gear transmission and bearing, we can make more efficient crankshaft for transmission.

All in all, once the two water tankers are built and tested successfully, it can be predicted that more water tankers will be erected along the litterliver river bank to the west of the gaoshu tribe. On the banks of the frenchbrod river near the original big green hill tribe, more water tankers will also be erected.

In the future, Daqingshan tribe will become the metallurgical base of gaoshu tribe, which has been planned by stone bear for a long time. The waterwheel will play a bigger role there.

Jean Agust's work is almost done. It's not difficult for him to burn glass. Now in a new wooden house built in the middle of the high tree tribe, a lot of bottles, jars and experimental equipment have been piled up.

And under the guidance of Agust, many of the tribe's people have been able to burn and blow glass. Next, this elementary laboratory will be able to carry out various chemical experiments.

Brother gaigai's cement firing has also achieved preliminary results. In the case of stone bear's golden finger, firing cement is not difficult.

It's like the big pond that David Dean built north of the tribe, which has been made of newly baked cement.

This big pool is specially used for soaking wood. The raw materials for paper-making will be soaked in this large pool for dozens of days before the next processing procedure can be carried out, so the cigarette will not be thought of in the last two months at least.

However, once the success of paper-making, then you can continue to produce cigarettes.

What makes stone bear most happy is not the work that has made progress. What makes him most happy is the crops that are full of vitality in the vast farmland on both sides of the litterliver Rive