Chapter 51 Safety First -Syntheric Rubber

Previously, Landon had allocated all the new workers towards the construction industry.

He had made up his mind that, the next batch of slaves that Santa brought would be sent over to the other 2 industries.

But right now, he needed people who could build.

Today, he wanted to make Synthetic rubber.

Every week....Landon had to give first aid to treat the workers in the mines.

Although he had made them mine carts that were on rails, they still injured theirselves.

When they had to carry the stones and load the cart, some of them would accidentally drop them on their feet. This had been happening for a while now.

Even the working gloves in this era, was trash. It could only block 60% of the injuries they were getting on their palms.

The gloves were not effective.

They would wrap alot of clothes around their palms.. and then wear normal thin material gloves over them... What could that do?

That’s why the first thing Landon had thought about was safety. Hence the manufacturing of rubber.

Back on earth 90% of products had rubber in them. From bicycle handles to housing and pipe insulation, school stamps.. heck, even toothbrushes were made from rubber.

There was no way that he would allow the scientist the lab to keep working without gloves or other protective gear.

For now, they hadn’t touched any corrosive substances. But what about the future? Was he going to let their skin burn?

He needed to make thick rubber boots, rubber gloves, earmuffs, eye shields and even helmets.

Infact, Landon didn’t believe that anyone could start building an advanced empire without any safety gear.

F*** this shit!! this wasn’t a wuxia novel. They were real people who could die at anytime.

Plus, previously, there was no doctor or nurse available. The people used to just wash the wounds with water and tie it with a piece of clothing.

Landon took up the duty as an Industry nurse and gave them first aid treatment whenever they were injured.

Due to the systems first reward about farming and crops, Landon knew what herbs were medicinal to their injuries.

Now, that there were 7 doctors and 14 nurses, Landon had assigned each doctor with 2 nurses.

He assigned each doctor to different stations. 3 for the 3 industries in the Lower region, 1 for the military, 1 for the school and 2 would remain at a new estate which Landon had given as a hospital.

While they were on duty, they read the chemistry and mathematics textbooks that his highness gave them.

Landon wanted them to start understanding things like matter, reactions and so on.

Chemistry and math were used in every profession.

They needed to know about ions, protons and so on.

"I will show you what to do and how to use the other equipments to produce the products."

Different rubber products needed different chemicals to be added to them.

There were 5 major chemicals needed for all different rubber products.

So Landon had the storage tank of the milky liquid rubber, connected to 5 outlet pipes as well.

The outlets would lead to different stations within the rubber department.

Landon decided to start with one of the most difficult products.. rubber tires.. preferably construction machine tires.

Landon manually opened the valve, for the pipeline between his station and the storage tank.

Soon, the creamy liquid rubber and headed towards the tank next to him. Once he felt like he had enough, he closed the valve.

Landon then added, Silica, bis (triethoxylypropyl) and carbon black to the creamy rubber.

Landon had built a ’Steam/water mixer tank’, that would constantly mix any thing, provided water is used as its fuel.

He then added water to the mixer engine, and after a while, it started stirring the materials in the tank vigorously.

The mixer head resembled egg beaters.

These mixers should never be turned off, unless there was nothing in the tank. So Landon decided to have the men poor water every 3 hours.

Once the mixture was uniform, Landon opened another valve that allowed the creamy mixture, to flow towards another boiler tank. Where another solvent mixture and water were added.

As he boiled off the solvent, the rubber starting forming tiny balls that were the size of beans.

Once the solvent had completely evaporated, all that was left was water and bean size white balls.

He then sent the products to another vessel, which acted as a filter. And finally the rubber was sent to a steam compressor to completely dry down.

Now the rubber looked like soft rice balls.

Landon had the men form bales of tire synthetic rubber.

He then took out 1 of those bales, reheated it, and used polychloroprene and other chemicals, to completely vulcanize it.

After creating a mold for the tire, he poured the vulcanized rubber into mold and allowed it to cool down for 4 hours.

While it was cooling down, he showed them how to make other rubber materials.

And by the end of the day, Landon had made 4 pair of gloves, a pair of rubber boots and 1 gigantic tire.

He had also made a lot of dried bales for each rubber product.

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Now he could progress he could safely progress with his plans