Chapter 308: ,test

After hearing this, Napoleon grabbed the handrails, walked up the steps, and walked halfway, looking down, and found that Joseph was still standing next to him, and he said: "Joseph, come and take a look."
Joseph instinctively wanted to decline.
"Come on, rest assured, this is a steam locomotive, it won't overturn." Napoleon said again.
"It’s strange to believe you!" Joseph thought in his heart, and at the same time, he thought that this car didn’t even fire, it was impossible to start, let alone the cylinder exploded, so he said to Watt:
Mr. Watt, I remember the above The space should be relatively large, so let's go up and have a look. Well, this ladder is a bit steep, or you should go ahead."
"Haha, Dean Bonaparte, are you worried that I will fall and want to follow me? I am a little older, but it's okay to climb such a ladder." Watt laughed.
When Watt said this, he went up the ladder first, Joseph followed him and up the ladder, and several people climbed up and entered the cab.
The cab is indeed very empty. The entire cab is about eight or nine square meters. On the right side of the cab, there is a console with several handles on it, and there is a rope hanging beside it.
"Is this a cable for the electric light?" Napoleon asked.
"No, it's the cable for the siren," Watt said. "The cable for the electric light is over there, where we enter the door."
Napoleon nodded, then turned his head again and saw a closed hatch a little to the left of the cab. There is also a small cart and a few shovels next to it.
"This is?" Napoleon asked.
"This is the feeding port of the boiler." Watt explained, "When the steam engine is running, the workers send coal in and burn it from here. This trolley is convenient for sending coal from the coal water cart behind. ..."
Watt pointed to a pipe next to it and the valve on it: "Your Excellency First, this is a water pipe used to add water to the steam engine. Of course, water can only be added when the steam engine is stopped and there is no pressure in the cylinder... "
Napoleon nodded and thanked Watt again. Then they looked around the car again and left the locomotive.
In the morning of the next day, Napoleon had eaten breakfast, and together with Joseph brought the guard to the test site. At this time, the locomotive had left the factory and came to the railway outside. The early morning sun shone on the steel monster and the steel rails. The glass and brass decorations on the steel rails and the locomotive were shining in the sun.
A grandstand was built on a high ground about 300 meters from the railway. As for why the stands were so far, Joseph's explanation is this:
"From this location, you can see the entire test section, and you can see the locomotive's performance on the entire section. If you change to another place, you can only see a little bit. As for the problem of not being able to see clearly at a long distance, you can use a telescope. To make up."
Everyone believes that Joseph's views are very reasonable, only Napoleon expressed doubts to his brother in private. And Joseph honestly admitted that he did not want to watch it up close. There were indeed other reasons.
"I don't like the smoky smell." Joseph said.
"Haha..." Napoleon said.
However, the brothers did not continue their in-depth discussions on this issue, because the "Progress 1" locomotive had already started to smoke on the railway over there.
Napoleon didn't care about ridiculing his elder brother, although such things always brought him a lot of happiness. He raised the binoculars and looked over there, and asked, "Joseph, Joseph, is this going to move?"
"The steam engine is on fire, and the trailer hasn't been hung up. What anxious?" Joseph looked at his brother with a look of a hillbilly, "Besides, if we don't give instructions here, why would it move? By the way, Napoleon, isn't this order for you to issue? Didn't you take a closer look at the process that I showed you last night?"
"I saw it, and I remembered that when we were ready, we hung a blue flag over there, and at the same time we used the phone to inform us that they have completed the preparation and can leave at any time, and then we use the phone and a red flag to send the departure Instructions. Why don’t I remember? I just feel very fresh..."
As time passed by, there was still no call and no blue banner hung up there.
"It's slow..." Napoleon said.
"I've said it a long time ago. They should be allowed to complete the fire and pressurization first. You have to watch the whole process in person." Joseph said, "but it should be fast."
"In the end... Ah, it moved, it moved, I still..."
"That's to hang up the trailer." Joseph said.
The locomotive below moved slowly, but not forward, but slowly retreated for a short period of time, retreating to the side of the trailers.
"Your Excellency First, Progress 1 will tow nine trailers this time. Each trailer has more than 50 tons of coal on it, plus the weight of the trailer itself, and Progress 1 will tow more than 500 tons. Weight." Watt explained aside.
"Ah, this is already a large sea boat." Napoleon said, "Can it be moved?"
"According to the calculation, there is no problem." Joseph said.
"Oh." Napoleon stopped asking.
It took another time to marshal the trailers. By the time the sun had already risen, the blue flag was finally raised there, and the guards who were in charge of staring at the phone also received the call from the other side and they were ready. phone.
"Okay, start now!" Napoleon shouted.
The signal was sent, and soon there was a long whistle. Even on the high ground a few hundred meters away, the voice could be heard clearly.
"Now you know how correct our position is here? If we are below, the voice is really..." Joseph said, "I tell you, Napoleon, no one knows how to choose a suitable position for the stands better than me. Up."
"Shut up, stop arguing," Napoleon said, holding up his binoculars, "that car moved!"
Indeed, after the whistle sounded, the train began to move forward slowly.
"Why is it so slow? It's much slower than a carriage." Napoleon said, "but it can pull so much at a time, and the efficiency is far better than that of a carriage."
In the original history, the earliest steam locomotives, although there has been a practice of adding a circle to the inside of the wheels and stuck on the rails, but because they did not have a decent suspension, (the key is that there are not enough and cheap enough The spring steel) wheels are directly mounted on the car body with rigid connections. This made the steam locomotive at that time a little faster, it would be very bumpy, and the wheels would even jump directly from the rails, causing the vehicle to derail.
In addition, the rails used by those locomotives are mostly so-called wrought rails, and they weigh less than 10 kilograms per meter. Compared with the rails used by the "Progress 1" today, it is lighter and softer. The steam locomotive runs a little faster, and if it bumps, the impact force of the wheels is enough to make the rails bend and deform. So those locomotives at that time really couldn't run horse-drawn carriages. This was not because of insufficient power, but because they didn't dare to run fast. Running fast is really mortal!
However, these problems do not exist in "Progress 1". Both the locomotive and the rear trailer have spring suspensions. This not only increases the comfort of the vehicle, but more importantly, it makes the wheels total. It can be firmly attached to the rail. It avoids the problem of derailment caused by the wheels jumping up and then falling outside the rails.
The track used by "Progress 1" is also a heavy-duty track made of genuine steel, and its carrying capacity is far from comparable to those of wrought iron tracks. It's definitely not right that there are cheap goods, and they turn when they run, and then they derail. So if "Progress No. 1" can't run a carriage, then it's a joke. The reason why Napoleon felt that he was not as fast as a carriage at this time was entirely because "Progress 1", like all trains, had poor acceleration and deceleration capabilities. But as long as you run a little longer, the speed will gradually increase, and the speed of the "Progress 1" train must surpass that of the carriage.
The train sounded its whistle again, and began to accelerate gradually in the surrounding steam. Napoleon looked at him and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, it runs very fast, no less than a carriage! Such a big thing, drags so many goods, runs so fast! This is really great! Joseph, it can still Is it faster?"
But by this time ~EbookFREE.me~ the train has started to slow down. Because the six-kilometer experimental track is still a bit short, it is not enough to allow the train to reach its maximum speed. The highest speed tested in this experiment is 30 kilometers per hour, which is not the highest speed, but in this era, it is already very fast.
"This thing should be able to pretend to be human," Napoleon said. "This thing is so useful, Joseph, when will you get that land battleship out for me?"
"That thing?" Joseph curled his lips. "Wait first, let us build a railway network that connects important locations in the country. Let's talk about it when we make money. Okay, look, the train is going back. Open, wait a while for the train to stop, you still have a speech. But speaking of land battleships, um, some railways are also very strategically valuable, we can call them the "national defense railway", and then... …"
"Then fund the construction from the account of the Ministry of War, and then you use it, right?" Napoleon said, "Even if I am fine here, are you sure that General Cano can agree to such a thing?"
"General Kano?" Joseph said, "Just tell him this thing is very important to the military, and then tell him that in peacetime, by renting out private enterprises to collect rent, you can also recover the investment, and even make a little, I I think he will agree."