Chapter 359： Invention project

When Rebecca got dirty, she was a little bit nervous when she got home - because in fact she didn't notice the stain on her face, so she went all the way from the Magic Technology Institute. When I came back, I was reminded by my servant after I got home that I didn’t wash my face, and this kind of behavior was always in the past...

But after seeing things on the high desk, all her fears and brain pains vanished.

"New machine design!" The girl jumped excitedly after seeing the drawings on the table. She reached out and grabbed it. "I look..."

Gao Wen slaps the girl's dirty paw back: "Look at your hand!"

"Oh!" Rebecca hurriedly took it back and slammed it on his body twice (in this action, at least in front of Herti, knocking his head five), then carefully rushed to the desk and looked at the weird machine, " What is this doing... Hey, mean to put the paper under this roller? Print something?"

Rebecca often does not always deal with all kinds of machinery and equipment, and has a certain understanding of Gao Wen’s thinking habits. When I saw the printing machine, I guessed its role and saved it. Gao Wen has a lot of trouble explaining, and the latter nodded: "This is a printing press."

“Printing, I know this,” Rebecca nodded. “The textbooks used in the school, the plaid and printed paper used in the office, and the labels used in the alchemy factory are printed...you Is the printing equipment improved? But this thing... looks completely different from what it is used on the ground."

Rebecca knows what printing technology is currently used on the territory - in fact, it is the technology that Ansu has already had, using a wax board to engrave text and patterns on it, forming an intaglio, and then mixing a bitter root The mud of the rattan powder is evenly poured on the wax plate, and then heated, the bitter root rattan mud will turn into a hard mud plate after heating, and the wax will melt, so that the carved version of the sun is obtained, which can be used for printing. Something is gone.

However, this method of plate making has great limitations. First, it can't go wrong when it is engraved. Once it is wrong, the whole wax board will be scrapped. Secondly, bitter root vine mud needs to be left for several hours to eliminate bubbles and pre-cure after covering the wax board. Then it can be heat-hardened, and the hardened slab is also brittle and fragile. Be careful when using it.

Even so, this printing technique is quite advanced – the aristocrats used this method to print a large number of letterheads and official papers with family patterns, which is also its main application.

The use of this printing technique in the printing of books is a precedent for Cecil, for the simple reason that only a large number of people are literate here, and a large number of people need to study...

In fact, Cecil led the printing of a large number of cheap books, printed on cheap paper, the cover of the book is not decorated with any metal and gemstones, nor is it fixed with a leather envelope or tie. The practice of the spine is in the eyes of traditional scholars in this world, "insulting sacred knowledge."

Many scholars came to Cecil to see the books that were cheap and "roughly made". After their traditional ideas, books must use exquisite parchment, and the worst must use hoarfrost. Production, copying by hand or shorthand magic, signed by a famous scholar, and finally using a lot of gorgeous, complicated, expensive decoration to make up.

However, Gao Wenyi ignored these pedantic voices - anyway, he had a prestige when he was a founding ancestor. He was not afraid of any challenge in the words "the right to speak."

Rebecca was curiously studying the design of Gao Wen. At first, she thought that this was the "improvement" of the existing printing technology on the territory, but soon she realized that the machine works and efficiency. Far from traditional printing techniques can be compared.

The basic "plate-transfer" concept is still there, but the way the machine works is too advanced - the word "continuous printing" has appeared in the girl's mind for the first time.

Sometimes, technicians lack only one direction.

“What needs to be solved now is 'plate making', or how to transfer text quickly and conveniently to this printing cylinder,” Gao Wen pointed to the core part of the machine, talking about the problems he is currently facing. “My requirements are three. First, the quick and convenient, the process of converting text into impressions on the drum must be faster than the current plate-making technology; second, it is easy to edit, and it can't be ruined like a traditional engraving. So this requires that the process of transferring the text to the drum is reversible, or that the text can be modified and reset before the transfer; thirdly, there is a certain connection with the second one, that is, the drum can be used multiple times. The print on it can be erased, not only to reduce costs, but also to improve the efficiency of the device."

"Wow..." Rebecca grew his voice. "Sounds... very challenging."

"Yes, it's a bit of a challenge," Gao Wen looked at Rebecca with a serious look. "So I have to hand it over to you - or to the Magic Institute of Technology to solve this problem."

Rebecca seems to understand: "The Magic Technology Institute..."

"The Magic Technology Institute is just to solve these application technology problems. The working methods of large-scale integrated laboratories are designed to solve these problems." Gao Wen smiled and nodded. "All kinds of creations." Talented craftsmen, organators, runesmen, and magicians are concentrated in a laboratory as 'magic technicians', using their own ideas to create ideas one after another, to discuss each other, help each other, achieve together, and jointly verify , all resources are used in one project, this is the role of those laboratories."

He paused and saw the appearance of Rebecca's thoughts and then said: "A person's creativity is limited. After many people are together, they will exert the creativity beyond the sum of the numbers. I give You come up with a direction, and then you can take your team to play with it - take each person's ideas out and discuss, don't be afraid of mistakes, and then you will find out how incredible power is in a large laboratory."

Rebecca’s eyes grew bigger and bigger, and even a little shiny at the end, she suddenly grabbed Gao Wen’s arm and shook it: “I understand, I understand! It’s like this... ...this is the correct usage of large laboratories!"

"Don't shake it, don't shake it... you say that you have a Master's hand so big," Gao Wen tapped Rebecca's head, and easily broke away from the other person, "Before taking the project to the lab." Let me talk about your thoughts first - do you have a solution?"

"emmmmm..." Rebecca tried to think with his finger on his lower lip. After a moment, he opened his mouth with uncertainty. "In fact, there is a little idea... I thought of the Master's shorthand magic."

As Gao Wen expected, after encountering such a problem that could not be solved mechanically, Rebecca’s first step was to think of magic – this is the most normal way of thinking as a mage. Although Rebecca's spell talent is a bit subtle, the idea of ​​"the problem of solving problems with magic" is clearly effective in her body.

"Sketch magic?" Gao Wen nodded slightly. "I know this kind of spell is a relatively low-level one but it is very useful for one of the official spells. Should it be the Arcane?"

"Yes," Rebecca nodded as he nodded. "On the enchanted parchment paper soaked with special potions, the shorthand magic can directly transfer the clear picture of the Master's mind into words or patterns, if not If you enchant the parchment, the wizard can also use the enchanted feather pen to perform the less efficient 'shorthand'. This spell also has an alias called transfer magic..."

Gao Wenyang raised his eyebrows: "What is your theoretical knowledge?"

Amber spit out his tongue: "I can't be beaten when I was a child. The stock... The aunt said that as a mage, there is no other magical skill. There is no way to limit the talent, but if you don't even know the theoretical knowledge, then it is true. If you don't work hard, you have to punish it."

Gao Wen: "..."

"Sketch magic is probably a train of thought, but there is still no way to solve the problem of quickly converting text lines into impressions, and shorthand magic I remember there is no law - this is a spell that must be released by the wizard," sighed Rebec After the card was alive, it was really not easy. Gao Wen said while thinking, "So the current rune logic can't handle it. It doesn't conform to the principle that we can let ordinary people use it. But let's keep this. Ideas, go back and study again."

Rebecca left with the semi-finished printing press drawings and the semi-finished ideas full of brains, and Gao Wen walked to the floor-to-ceiling window of the study, watching the sun sinking outside and sinking into contemplation.

As he had thought before—his own knowledge reserve and creativity are limited, even if he has memory enhancement and insight beyond the age of the world, he is nothing but a mortal.

He can propose the idea of ​​a new type of printing machine book, but in the end he can't come up with a practical and fundamental technical solution.

But he has no regrets about this, because from the beginning, he realized this.

The world has its own technical system. The people of this world also have their own wisdom and creativity. He does not need to be a versatile person who can invent all the techniques and all systems. All he has to do is to have those talents. People gather as much as possible on their own territory, then organize them reasonably and give them a "direction."

He couldn't think of how a printing device that could work continuously and quickly and conveniently should be made, but he could tell the technical staff on the ground to tell those people that he needed such a device - he could also put the idea and technology of the device. The requirements are described in general terms, which has greatly improved the speed of technology development.

He doesn't know if this kind of development is right, but he thinks that this is the most suitable for himself, and it is also the most suitable for Cecil's collar. It is the most suitable development method for the world.

He retracted his gaze and returned to his desk to pick up a piece of paper and write a new plan.

The technical breakthrough of the new printing press can be completed in three or two days, but before that, some things are not allowed to appear in advance, at most, the efficiency is lower.

In Gao Wenshi, a line of big characters appeared:

About the concept of the newspaper, and the release plan.