Chapter 169 Watches, Alarm Clocks and Photocopying Machines

"Your majesty, so these ’watches’ and alarm clocks would be able to tell the time?"

"Hmhm... they will!"

Tim was really mind blown by the fact that such a thing could even exist.

Sometimes, he felt like Landon wasn’t human.

No no no... scratch that!

Most of the time, he felt like Landon was a God in human skin.

The more he read the notebook in his hand, the more fidgety he became.

"Your majesty, will we sell these goods out of Baymard in future?"

"Yes... these ones will be sold out, since they work on Batteries."

The concept of Batteries, wasn’t new to Tim and a lot of workers within his industry.

The only battery that existed in Baymard right now, was the one for heavy machines.

These ones consisted of sulfuric acid solution, and several flat plates that acted as galvanic cells in series.

Granted when they made their first battery ever, it wasn’t as well done as those ones back on earth.... but it still got the job done either way.

The only problem was that those ones didn’t last as long as those ones back on earth.

When they made their first battery, its outer box was made of metal... and some of the plates were done unevenly.

But once better tools and plastic came into the picture, Landon switched it up and modified several outer components once again.

All in all, these batteries were constantly improved upon monthly.

For wrist watches, tiny ’coin’ or ’button’ sized batteries were ideal for them.

And for wall clocks and alarm clocks, the Batteries needed to be like the ordinary batteries made back on earth.

Landon was talking about the ’’A’, AA’, ’AAA’ battery types and so on.

To make batteries, one needed special materials and chemicals that would aid in the transfer of electricity.

There needed to be a cathode, anode, and a fluid or material that would aid in electrical flow.

Landon was sure that the people outside Baymard, wouldn’t be able to come up with the exact components and chemical solutions required for battery production.... without guidance.

So why should he be worried?

Even if they made the other components of the watches and put them together, the watche’s hands wouldn’t tick without a battery.

Take for example Lithium batteries.

And of course light bulbs and rollers already existed as well.

So that just left Landon with the toner and the photosensitive drums to make, which weren’t hard to do.

Anyway the machine worked like so:

When one places his/her document upside down and presses the start key, an intense beam of light (from the bulb).....flashes onto the document.

This light then gets reflected towards the photosensitive drum.

Now here’s where the magic really happens.

This drum is electrostatically charged by a high voltage wire.. as well as coated with a photosensitive chemical (selenium).

Since Selenium is a semiconductor... that would mean that it would act as an insulator in dark areas, as well as conduct electricity when light falls on it.

Bottom line, when the light gets reflected off the document..... it reaches the photo-conductive drum, and gets its ions displaced.

As negative charges make an electrical shadow, the drum begins to rotate.

And finally, this negatively charged shadow moves towards a positively charged toner.

Negative and positive... you get the picture.

Both charges stick to each other, and an inked image of that document is formed within the charges.

Then a new sheet of paper is feed into the hopper of the photocopying machine.

The hopper carries the paper on a conveyor belt upwards, and moves towards the drum and the toner.

The charges drop onto the new sheet of paper, and the document is finally photocopied.

As the photocopied paper makes its way out of the machine, it will pass through 2 hot rollers.

These rollers aid in fusing the toner particles onto the paper permanently, by inserted heat and pressure onto it.

The whole process involved light, reflection, conductivity and ions.

Well anyway, this machine will have an "On’ and ’Off’ button on it.... and would work electrically, and steam powered (for those within buildings that don’t have electricity).

A photocopying machine doesn’t necessarily need the internet... it wasn’t a printer.

Also, Landon had decided to add several other buttons at the corners of the photocopying machine.

Kind of like a keypad.

If they wanted to make 10 copies, they just had to tap ’1’ and ’0’ keys.. and then press ’Start’.

Well... with this, he decided to start teaching the workers a little bit about computer engineering as well.

Up next Landon Wanted to focus on Radios.