Chapter 37 037 High School Research Project
Upon arriving in Huilin City, most of the people she encountered were people she had never met in her previous life. Moreover, Xiaoli's family's detached house with a yard was in a rather special location, surrounded by former wealthy households. The current residents were either members of the power class or families who had been exonerated and reinstated, and their influence was considerable.
Song Xiaoli is incredibly cute. At such a young age, she's going to a top provincial high school, and both her parents are teachers. When the neighbors found out, they all wanted to befriend her family. As their interactions increased, Song Xiaoli deliberately encouraged them to make choices that were beneficial to society, causing the world line's change rate to skyrocket.
These are just things I do casually on weekdays. When school starts, Xiao Li will continue to do the same as before: first, show off her learning and research talents, and then gather a group of students with above-average talent to continue running the science hobby group.
She was lucky. Her physics teacher, Ling Fengping, was a helpful assistant that the institute often hired when she worked at the research institute in her previous life. Song Xiaoli brought this teacher along and asked him to be her mentor and supervisor. Over time, seeing that the students' research was quite impressive, Teacher Ling went from symbolic management to genuine participation.
The initial products were merely improvements on everyday items, such as clips for easily grabbing hot bowls and plates, and simple book clips to free up your hands. Later, they involved more hardcore scientific knowledge.
In her first year of high school, Song Xiaoli led a group of people to complete the development of bladeless fan technology.
She had no experience in this field in her past life, only vaguely heard about it, and hadn't originally planned to do it. However, there was a boy in her group whose family had finally bought an electric fan, but when his younger cousin came over to play, he mischievously put his hand into the fan's protective mesh and had a finger severed. The boy witnessed the incident and had been having nightmares ever since, feeling extremely guilty for not watching his child properly, which led to such a tragic outcome. So, he suggested inventing a bladeless fan.
When the technology was finally completed and Ling Fengping saw the serious invention report submitted by Song Xiaoli, he was stunned.
He truly hadn't expected that dozens of young children could produce an invention of this caliber. After personally verifying it, he disregarded the current trend of "sharing scientific research results for free" and went straight into the patent application process. He had a wide network of connections, and even applied for patents abroad.
This was not Song Xiaoli's original intention, but the foreign company that was originally going to invent this technology will inevitably be affected.
"It's not really my fault. I don't know how this thing was invented in my past life. In this life, I listened to Brother Black Tiger's advice and a group of us slowly researched and created this thing from scratch."
This is not plagiarism. The idea came from Hei Hu, and everyone actually put in a whole year to work on it, even voluntarily "working overtime" during their winter and summer vacations.
The patent application process takes a very long time, so people stopped focusing on it and started choosing new research topics.
Teacher Ling stopped letting them run wild and started keeping an eye on them whenever she had free time, helping them answer their questions from time to time.
However, the group was still basking in the euphoria of their great success, and for a short time, they didn't have any good ideas. It wasn't until Song Xiaoli called her grandparents back home that she remembered how many households would eventually have their own telephones, gradually transitioning to the mobile phones used by the wealthy, and then even small, portable pagers, and eventually the PHS phones...
She then realized that it would be better to study portable communication tools, as these things have a real promising future.
In Hong Kong and Taiwan, people are already using mobile phones, but in mainland China, even telephones are not yet widespread. In rural areas, there might only be one or two communes with a telephone. In urban areas, it is only installed in the homes of cadres. Some bolder families who opened small shops early on would also choose to install one and pay for calls by the number of times or by the time.
It's actually quite inconvenient. Like this time, Song Xiaoli's family wanted to postpone their trip home for the Spring Festival. They wanted to tell her father's commune and her maternal grandfather in advance, but they had to use the school's phone to make the call. After that, they had to wait for the commune to notify them and then call again, or wait for them to call back. It was just a simple matter of saying one sentence, but it took them half a morning. It was a complete waste of time and life.
After the basic concepts of portable phones and PHS phones (Xiaolingtong) were explained, the students felt their horizons had been broadened.
"A telephone, can it be made so small that you can hold it in your hand?"
“In theory, it should be possible,” said Teacher Ling, who had more experience. “Telephones need wires. To make one portable, it would be similar to the principle of a radio. However, it can’t use public broadcast channels. It would require a dedicated base station for communication… This involves a lot of knowledge, mainly physics. It would be very difficult for you to research and develop it.”
After saying that, he frowned and thought for a long time before finally making a decision. "I'll contact my friend in Hong Kong and ask him to send me a mobile phone that Xiao Li mentioned. I'll try to disassemble this existing machine and conduct some optimization research. It will be easier than not having any research starting point at all."
Many people are still afraid of the various criticisms and struggles they faced a few years ago, and even those with overseas connections dare not contact them. Ling Fengping said that finding someone to buy a mobile phone not only requires a large sum of money, but also carries the risk of censorship.
Song Xiaoli, being reborn, naturally knew these things, and she was very grateful to have a teacher like Ling Fengping. However, nowadays, people are no longer criticized because of their connections to Hong Kong, Taiwan, or overseas, so Song Xiaoli pretended to be a genuine child and didn't stop it.
There's only one problem: "Mobile phones must be very expensive, right? I heard that even in Hong Kong and Taiwan, only a very small number of wealthy people can afford one. Teacher, could you ask a friend to buy one for you..."
How can we raise this money?
The students in the research group looked at each other and started whispering among themselves, "Let's pool our resources."
"Yes, I can take out all my New Year's money."
"After I joined our group, I almost always got full marks on every exam. The teacher always praised me. My parents and grandparents were overjoyed. When I went back and told them that I wanted to raise some money to buy research materials, they would definitely give it to me."
"I should be able to contribute some too," Song Xiaoli chimed in. Her family had bought their house with their savings, and since then, they hadn't had any major expenses, just the daily costs for their family of five. Over the past year, they'd saved quite a bit from their salaries. Song Xiaoli was very pampered at home and never spent money recklessly. She knew her parents wouldn't refuse her request for some cash to support her research.
"Teacher Ling, we've asked someone to get us a lot of university textbooks, as well as other newspapers, reference books, and so on. The list is here with me; you can take a look first to avoid having to search for it repeatedly." Song Xiaoli rummaged through her bag and took out a few sheets of paper that she had specially tucked inside. This was their group's unique "resource database" list.
The bladeless fan they researched earlier was an invention that leaned most towards the realm of physics. After a long period of self-study and mutual learning, the group of them had already developed a pretty good foundation.
Now that Teacher Ling is willing to take time out of her work schedule to teach everyone, I believe everyone will learn faster and more systematically.
Because apart from Song Xiaoli, no one else could imagine a portable phone, they became quite interested in information transmission methods during their studies. Their research took a slightly off track, but they still managed to develop a short-range transmission method similar to Bluetooth.
Ling Fengping watched them achieve results this time, and felt like her brain was going numb.
"You kids... you're really quick-witted."
"Yes, if my teacher and I both have a portable phone with memory to store data, and I want to share my data with my teacher, I don't need to find a place to print it out or write it down by hand. I can just connect via phone and transfer the data to my teacher's phone."
Song Xiaoli had never owned a truly convenient smartphone in her previous life, but she had seen Nokia's keypad phones, the latest versions of which allowed for face-to-face information transmission.
"Wow, that's really convenient!" others expressed their support.
Others were excitedly suggesting, "After we finish the portable phone, how about we look into portable printers? Printing presses are so big, maybe we can shrink them a bit? That way, our school could get a few printing presses, making it much easier for teachers to create exam papers—they can create them today and print them out tomorrow."
As everyone's minds became more active, the more they thought about it, the more they realized how much they could do.
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