v3 Chapter 588： Motorcycle Division established

When William IV was receiving King William I of Prussia, in the port of Adelaide, where the headquarters of the Dutch Far East Group in the southern part of the Australian mainland in the Far East is located, a major event of breaking time significance for the Dutch military was taking place.

Inside the R&D department of the Dutch Far East Group in Adelaide, the atmosphere was tense.

Everyone stayed outside the research room, waiting for the final result.

Outside this tiny door gathers the official heavyweights who hold great positions in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Accompanied by Maybach, Chairman of the Far East Group, the second largest consortium in the Netherlands (after the Dutch East India Company), Governor of South Australia and former Prime Minister Jane Jacob Rokusen, Minister of Armaments of the Netherlands Louis Bell, Minister of Industry Wei Wei Mr. Cotter, Minister of Transport John and other big figures gathered here waiting for the arrival of "good news".

Ross August Otto was excavated from the French Empire by His Majesty William IV himself when he was in trouble.

In 1861, he immigrated to the Dutch Far East, Australia, and was dug into the Far East Group to become a senior engineer. In 1863, Ross August Otto used Rocha's principle to create the world's first reciprocating piston, horizontal bar, horizontal, with 3.2 KW (that is, 4.4 horsepower in later generations, using gas as fuel, using flame ignition, relaying to 156.7 rpm, compression ratio of 2.66, thermal efficiency of 14%, stable rotation speed, both power and thermal efficiency are currently the world's highest) four-stroke internal combustion engine.

For this reason, the Dutch scientific community was very shocked. With the successful manufacture of the four-stroke internal combustion engine, the Dutch industry continued to move further ahead of the United Kingdom. The Otto internal combustion engine was strongly promoted by the Dutch government, and its performance was also improved. By 1865, the single engine power It reached 15 kilowatts (20 horsepower), and by 1866, Otto had increased it to 1.5 million kilowatts, due to the improvement of the compression ratio, the thermal efficiency also increased.

With these achievements, Ross August Otto was nominated by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and successfully appointed as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.

Perhaps in order to compete, Edison, who joined the Dutch East India Company and founded the subsidiary General Electric Company, successfully developed a two-stroke gas engine in 1866 and exhibited it at the 1867 Amsterdam World's Fair, which caused a sensation around the world.

Edison, who was only 20 years old and returned to the Netherlands from overseas (returned from Milliken, who was poor in the Netherlands), was also praised by the European scientific community as a leader of the younger generation in the European scientific community.

Edison became the youngest member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences in 1868.

Ross August Otto, born in 1832, was naturally unwilling to be compared by Edison.

So Otto set his sights on the emerging new fuel oil.

With the development of petroleum, gasoline and diesel, which are easier to transport and carry than gas, have attracted the attention of many people in Europe, and also attracted the attention of the scientific community with the theme of scientific creation. In order to suppress Edison, Otto prepared to develop new fields to open up the battlefield, and it was the gasoline engine that he was eyeing in 1867.

So he was reminded by William IV's special arrangement, and successfully won over Gottlieb Dalem and Karl Benz (both of whom were Württemberg in their homeland), who were dissatisfied with the Prussian Kingdom's annexation of their homeland, the Grand Duchy of Württemberg. Grand Duchy, don't forget, William IV) The two immigrated to the Netherlands and became Dutch nationals. They became engineers in the research and development department of the Dutch Far East Group.

This time, the reason why so many powerful figures in the Dutch military regime are concerned is because Ross August Otto and his two assistants Karl Benz and Gottlieb Dalem want to create miracles and develop R&D. A desktop upright gasoline engine.

The characteristics are light weight and high speed. Compared with other internal combustion engines at this time, the exclusive power does not exceed 200 rpm per minute. According to the data submitted by Otto to the Dutch Far East Group and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, if this time is successful, the newly invented gasoline engine will be a It jumps to 800 rpm in 1 minute, which is especially suitable for the requirements of transportation machinery.

But that was after the first model was completed in 1867, and now it is an upgraded version.

According to William IV's vision of the future popularized by many people present,

If the development of Otto and others is successful, the gasoline engine will be used as a running machine for many vehicles in the future. Even William IV also mentioned that a mechanically operated vehicle that is no longer a carriage but called a car will become popular. The birth of this gasoline engine would advance the automobile that William IV was trying to promote.

This has multiplied the pressure of many people present, which is why the ministers of the two major departments of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Communications are here.

The dual-use means of transport also had spillover effects on the military. The Minister of Armaments was also arranged by William IV to come to South Australia.

"According to our majesty, if the gasoline engine is successfully developed, it will become the key for us in the Netherlands to completely surpass the United Kingdom to become the world's leading industrial power. In the future, cars that are very unfamiliar to us will be brought into the future. The most important scientific project of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences for five years. At the same time, according to the guidance of His Majesty, gasoline engines will be used on ships to become the power of small boats in the future. After gasoline engines are improved and improved, they can even be used on warships and transport ships instead of coal"

The Governor of South Australia and former Prime Minister Jane Jacob Rokusen paused for Industry Minister Wem Cotter, Transport Minister John, Chairman of the Netherlands Far East Group Maybach, and finally put it on Dutch Armament Minister Louis Bell. .

I saw him saying: "Your Majesty attaches great importance to this research and development, which is why everyone here is here. At present, our Kingdom of the Netherlands has been suppressed by the United Kingdom internationally. If we can manufacture a gasoline engine this time, I hope the military Fang can make good use of it to complete the shortfall of the Dutch against the British."

The Minister of Armaments is in charge of the Netherlands Military Research Institute and the Arms Manufacturing Agency, and all orders placed by the military to private arms companies fall under his jurisdiction.

To say that the person in the Netherlands who is most familiar with the details of military progress, he is still above William IV, which is why William IV assigned him to the Far East to follow up the development of this vertical, portable gasoline engine.

"At present, in the Dutch military, except for our submarines in the Netherlands, which use low-power gasoline engines and diesel engine hybrids, other countries' weapons do not use gasoline-related methods."

Armament Minister Louis Bell spoke slowly, but he was generous and powerful, worthy of being a soldier.

"If the improved version of the gasoline engine can greatly improve the efficiency, then the voyage of the submarine will be greatly improved. The combat radius is 500 nautical miles. If the gasoline engine can be doubled, the quiet and safe submarine voyage, then the Dutch home port can be Threatening the British mainland will provide a strong check and balance for us to stop the powerful British navy in the future. If these gasoline-powered submarines with doubled safe submerged voyages are deployed in the Indian Ocean or the Pacific Ocean, the security index of the Dutch overseas territories will be greatly enhanced. At that time, Even if the UK has more surface warships than us, it will have more scruples about us and will not threaten us at will."

May 20, 1869, is a memorable day for the world industry.

Ross August Otto and his assistants Gottlieb Dailem and Karl Benz succeeded in improving the efficiency of gasoline engines.

And William IV, who was far away in Europe and the Netherlands, was naturally very happy when he received the good news from Adelaide, Australia.

William IV then ordered the Dutch Far East Group to provide more financial support for Otto.

At the suggestion of William IV, Otto set up a subsidiary, Otto Transportation Company, with the capital of the Dutch Far East Group.

At the same time, Otto hired talented and experienced engineers Dailem and Karl Benz to become the company's chief engineers. Otto was determined to apply his own engine to vehicles.

To this end, Alto divided the research and development funds in two, Karl Benz and Dailem each got half.

Dailem got R&D funding and started working on engine applications, developing an advanced ignition system that would allow the engine to run at 700-900 rpm, and painstakingly made a lighter engine.

Dalem built the world's first motorcycle by attaching an Otto engine to a Dutch bicycle, and Dalem, with Otto's backing, is ready to build his first-ever motorcycle by the end of the year Vehicles, four-wheeled vehicles powered by gasoline and diesel.

But Karl Benz did not let Dailem specialize in beauty. He took a step forward. After Dailem just completed the transformation of bicycles into motorcycles, he also built his first car - a three A car on wheels, a car completely different from a motorcycle.

Like Dailem's cars, Benz also uses the engine power of their boss Otto, because Otto's engine only has 700-900 rpm for 1 minute So the speed is too slow, don't care if it is Their car was generating too much value, so the pair started asking for money to improve their car.

Facing the demands of the two, Otto finally chose to support, because he understood that this was the line designated by William IV.

At the same time, the Netherlands Navy also tested the use of the world's most advanced technologies such as Otto engines and gasoline engines, and began to prepare for use in the Navy.

On May 25, 1869, William IV personally signed, and the Dutch Army Minister Pete de Jong personally went to the Far East to execute the new army service, which was officially launched in Alice Springs, a central city in the heart of the Australian mainland, here , the Dutch Motorcycle Division and the Tricycle Brigade were established (the one with a machine gun on the car is familiar to everyone).

Obviously, this place will be like a submarine, and it will become the secret weapon for victory in the future when the Netherlands has a strong domestic and European conflict. Secret weapon unit on futuristic battlefield.

It is conceivable that in the future, when the naval battleships of the British slightly victorious over the Netherlands entered the territory of the Netherlands and suddenly found that torpedoes were fired at them and hit their invading fleet, how shocked London would be, and what the world's naval pattern would be like upheaval.

Think again, what will happen to the Prussian Army, the world's No. 1 army in the future, with Bismarck and Mao Qi relying on the rapid transportation of troops by train, what will happen to the Dutch bicycle army? Facing the further motorcycle legion? On top of it, the tricycles with machine guns are fired at random on the European plains. Can Prussia withstand it?

At this point, William IV finally felt that the Kingdom of the Netherlands under his leadership was full of wings.

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