Chapter 711 Edison was killed by walking (3rd update, please subscribe)
The beautiful melody echoed in the room, as if there was a symphony orchestra playing here.
Where did this music come from?
What about the orchestra?
Where is the band?
Just for a moment, Lincoln and the others looked around, trying to find the band hidden in some depression.
But they could clearly hear the music coming from the record player. There was no way a symphony orchestra could be hidden in this room.
Since there can't be a symphony orchestra hiding there, who is playing the music?
What they were sure of was that the sound was definitely not coming from a music box or something like that, because it was simply a band playing the most beautiful melody.
How is music produced?
"Mr. Lin, what is this?"
After being surprised for a while, Lincoln asked curiously and surprised.
"The record player is a machine that was recently invented by the Ming Dynasty. It can record sounds. What you heard was the performance of the Imperial Symphony Orchestra."
Lin Weinan didn't think there was anything strange about their stunned looks. After all, when he first heard the music from the record, he looked not much better than them.
But now, looking at the stunned expressions of these people, he was filled with a certain pride deep in his heart. This pride came naturally from the advanced technology of the Ming Dynasty, because they always gave people so many surprises.
Even when he left the room, there was still a faint smile on Lin Weinan's face, a smile that was both proud and complacent.
Of course, he was also showing off. He was showing off, just like these foreigners were showing off how advanced the Ming Dynasty's technology was.
Such boasting is of course human nature. After all, in the past few years, the most proud and arrogant reason for European and American countries is science.
Once upon a time, they used science to define civilization and called themselves a civilized country!
But what about now?
Now the science of the Ming Dynasty is far more advanced than theirs. This kind of leading is not just in a certain industry or a certain aspect, but in all aspects.
Even now, the Ming Dynasty has become the pioneer and leader of the Second Industrial Revolution, and what about them? They have only just opened the door to the Second Industrial Revolution.
With such advanced technology, if we don't show off now, when will we show off? After all, in this land, new inventions are born every day.
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Whose invention is this?
Edison, who was in the cinema, stared at the moving photos in amazement. Although there was no sound, the funny movements on the pictures made people in the cinema laugh out loud. It was like a sea of joy here, and everyone was laughing because of the funny movements of the male protagonist.
Although every expression and movement of the actor could make people burst into laughter, Edison's eyes were not on the film at all. He just stared straight at the movie camera behind him and the picture projected on the screen.
"This, this is really a great invention!"
When Edison made such an exclamation, he did not know that in another world, the movie camera was invented by him. To be more precise, it was improved in his laboratory and eventually promoted to the whole world.
Even in another world, the rise of Hollywood was precisely because Los Angeles was far enough away from New York that people chose to shoot movies in Los Angeles in order to avoid Edison's patent attack.
That’s right!
Hollywood, which claims to protect intellectual property rights, was actually created precisely to evade paying for property rights.
Of course, now, there is no longer the laboratory in Monroe Park in this world. Because Edison came to Daming with his family, in December last year, Edison's research on the synchronous telegraph was nearing completion. Western Union Company promised to pay Edison $5,000 and offered $25,000 to buy his patent, and also paid him $233 per day as the cost of each line using this equipment, but Western Union Company failed to keep its promise.
Just when Edison was on the verge of bankruptcy because of this invention, the Ming Telegraph and Telephone Company finally bought the patent of the synchronous telegraph machine for $30,000, which helped him get through the difficult times. At the same time, the Ming Telegraph and Telephone Company also extended a job invitation to him, inviting him to come to Daming.
Of course, Edison was not willing to be a disciple of others, but he did not refuse the invitation because it was his only chance to enter the Ming Dynasty.
“This is a palace of invention! The world’s most outstanding scientists and inventors gather here.”
In the past few years, faced with the Ming Dynasty's countless new inventions, newspapers and the scientific community in Europe and the United States have described the Ming Dynasty in a similar tone full of jealousy and envy.
In the eyes of many European and American politicians and observers, over the past few years, the Ming Dynasty has been using very generous treatment and conditions to attract scholars and inventors from all over the world, so as to use their intelligence to serve their industry and commerce.
But some experts and scholars said this in a tone of deep sorrow.
"The rise of the Ming people in this land was not because of how smart they were. It was because they made full use of the smartest people in Europe. They were like harvesters, waving silver notes in their hands, harvesting the intelligence of the whole of Europe to serve them. In front of almost every outstanding scholar, there would be a Ming person saying to him, come, come to us, we can give you unimaginable treatment. They were like the Turks in the past, using silver to seduce those weak-willed scholars and technicians. In the end, it was those Europeans who made everything they had. Their inventions and innovations were entirely based on the harvest of European scholars."
Of course, these are just a few people talking nonsense, and they have not paid attention to a fact at all. Those scholars and experts introduced to the Ming Dynasty were not valued in European countries, and were even rejected by the mainstream academic community. Under such circumstances, they were forced to leave their countries.
Only the Ming Dynasty in the world can provide them with the most favorable treatment and research conditions. For those experts and scholars, they prefer the latter. After all, not only will it provide them with a better research environment, but the academic atmosphere here is also more intense.
This is of course why those scholars and experts are heartbroken, because they watched how the Ming Dynasty used talents from all over the world to serve them. In their opinion, it was because the Ming Dynasty bribed those experts and scholars with silver that they became the leaders and pioneers of this industrial revolution.
But for those experts and scholars who came to Daming, the reason they were happy to come here was because it had a better scientific research environment.
This is of course also the reason why Edison came here, because there are far more excellent technicians here than he imagined, and they are even better.
So because of this, he came to Daming. Of course, as a foreigner, it was not easy to enter Daming. The Daming Telegraph and Telephone Company gave him a job offer, which allowed him to obtain a work visa to enter Daming.
“This is such a magical place.”
It has to be said that the spread of technology in this world is limited and of course slow, although as early as a few years ago in the "Los Angeles Incident", the Daimyo had threatened the President of the United States with a movie.
But what?
It was not until now that Edison saw a movie for the first time. This was not because of the problem of technology dissemination. The most fundamental reason was... the industrial production of the Ming Dynasty had to first meet its own needs. As early as December 1872, the first movie of the Ming Dynasty was released. Although the cinema could accommodate hundreds of people, there were still crowds of people in front of the cinema. People were all proud to see a "movie".
It is for this reason that investing in cinemas has become a hot industry in the past year - because it was not until last year that Daming solved the problem of film production and was able to provide sufficiently cheap film, so that until now, Daming has only donated some movie cameras to certain countries.
Even though some European countries successfully copied movie projectors based on the "gift" given by the Ming Dynasty, they did not have cameras or film. For example, in the United States, even in countries like France, because the Ming Dynasty gave the royal family cameras, some "smart" French people successfully copied cameras, but they could not make film, at least they could not make cheap enough film that could be mass-produced. For this reason, movies are still only entertainment for a few people in European countries. For this reason, watching movies has become an entertainment activity exclusively enjoyed by the people of the Ming Dynasty.
This is why Edison always lingered in the cinema in the past few days, not only because those funny movies made people laugh. The most important reason is that this invention is so amazing.
At least, before he came to Daming, he had never seen such fascinating inventions. In the past period of time, he has seen too many new inventions, from movie cameras to record players. These new inventions that he had never heard of or seen before completely overturned his understanding of the world.
To the point that Edison even felt a sense of failure, because as an inventor, he discovered for the first time how insignificant he was in front of these new inventions. It could even be said that he was not worth mentioning.
Sometimes he really wanted to ask out loud what kind of people invented these new inventions?
(End of this chapter)
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