Chapter 878 Mechanical Clock of the Research Institute
Yang Yan's gift was a white deer, still alive. The Nanzhang County where he worked had only been established for more than a year, and it was located just south of the middle point between Liuyang County and Ruyang County. There was a plain over there, which was indeed suitable for human habitation, but there were no special products, so it was really difficult for him to find some special products as a gift for Luo Chong.
When it was decided to set up Nanzhang County earlier, Luo Chong led a group of officials to hunt there, and the deer were hunted.
Perhaps there were more deer over there, so Yang Yan specially got a genetically mutated albino big-horned deer this time.
Since it is a special species, it must not be killed for meat.
Keep it, but it's still the same problem. Luo Chong has no private zoo, no royal forbidden garden, and no place to keep it.
He thought for a while, such an albino species should also be able to expand the population. He remembered that in his previous life, almost all the white tigers in the world were descendants of a Bengal albino tiger, and that white tiger had hundreds of offspring.
In this case, why not send this white deer to Sinong Temple and let them try to breed it to see if they can expand the population of white deer, and maybe they can artificially create a new white deer species.
Having made up his mind, Luo Chong nodded and said, "White deer are rare and indeed hard to come by. I like this gift very much and I will accept it as well."
After accepting the gifts from these people, Luo Chong and the others looked at the last three groups of people. One was Dali, the governor of Xingang County. This guy was also one of the veterans of the Han tribe. The other was people from two research institutes. They did not come individually, but as a group, representing two research institutes.
Dali saw that Luo Chong finally looked at him. He scratched his head and said, "Chief, I don't have any treasures. I just picked a piece of good steel in my spare time and made a sword for you by myself. I hope you like it."
As he said that, he asked his followers to bring over an exquisite long wooden box and opened the box in front of everyone. The box was lined with yellow silk, and a one-meter-long Forsythia sword lay quietly on it.
Luo Chong took out the sword and looked at it. This sword was in the traditional Han sword shape. After all, the first sword of the Han tribe was made by Luo Chong according to the shape of the Han sword. Later, other people also referred to Luo Chong's design when forging swords.
The hilt is made of black iron wood and copper hoops. The tail end is a round flat tail design. The sword pavilion (handguard) in front is also made of bronze carving technology, and it is inlaid with several gems. The scabbard and hilt are also made of black iron wood. Four hollow carved copper hoops are used to combine the scabbard into one. There is also a hook on the side, which can be conveniently hung on the belt.
Luo Chong pulled out a section of the sword, and the sword body rubbed against the scabbard, and immediately a buzzing vibration sounded. The eight-sided sword body was covered with fine forging patterns, and each surface was polished to a bright shine, like a mirror.
When the sword was pulled out, it immediately reflected a slender light and shadow on the courtyard wall. With a gentle swing, you can hear the sound of the blade cutting through the air.
This is a chirping sword.
"Good sword, can you give it a name?" Luo Chong asked, stroking the sword gently.
"No, I don't know how to give it a nice name, as long as the leader likes it." Dali replied naively.
"Well, since this sword is good at making sounds, let's call it 'Floating World Pure Sound'."
Luo Chong thought for a moment and suddenly came up with such a name. He danced with the sword in the open space next to him as he pleased, without any special moves, but when the long sword in his hand was waving, it kept making ethereal vibrato sounds. When the people around heard the sound of the sword, they all thought that it was worthy of the name 'Pure Sound'.
With a clang, the sword was sheathed, and Luo Chong directly hung the Floating World Pure Sound on his waist. He really liked this sword.
After hanging up the sword, Luo Chong looked directly at the personnel of the two research institutes and asked with a smile, "Where are your gifts? Don't be so modest as them, just bring them up."
"Here!" A group of people immediately responded with a bow, and then the two groups looked at each other, and the people from the Power Research Institute took the lead and said, "Your things are simple, you go first?"
"What do you mean our things are simple? It's just that yours are too troublesome." Ao Fei said tit for tat.
Wen Nong didn't argue with them. He bowed to Luo Chong and said, "Chief, we have four gifts for you. They are all the results of everyone's usual research. Among them, some groups have contributed the most. Please take a look, Chief."
While he was talking, the people from the Lake Heart Island Comprehensive Research Institute had already brought the four gifts over and placed them in front of Luo Chong one by one, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.
"Chief, please look, this is an hourglass, divided into two funnels, upper and lower. When using it, move the end with sand to the upper part and fix it here. The sand on the upper part will leak out from the gourd mouth in the middle. It takes half an hour for all the white sand inside to leak out. So this hourglass can be used to tell time. Every time it is turned over, half an hour will pass when all the sand leaks out."
"Oh? This thing is good, it's really a fantastic idea, but where can it be used?" Jing Yan praised, and then began to think about the use of this thing.
"Isn't this used for timing? I think it should be placed in the school, and use it to measure the time between classes. Every half an hour, turn it over again and ring the bell." Yun Zhi, who was standing on the side, also expressed his opinion.
"This thing is good, but it's too heavy, and the time it can measure is short, only half an hour at a time. I think the instrument next to it should also be used for timekeeping, right? Can you introduce this to me?"
Luo Chong didn't even look at the hourglass. In terms of timekeeping, the hourglass is nothing. The clock next to this hourglass is obviously more valuable than the hourglass, okay?
They actually made a clock? !
"As expected of the leader, yes, the instrument next to it is also a timer. It uses wood as the shell, and the interior is a complex and rigorous bronze gear structure. It is powered by a reed to drive the pointer on the sundial outside to rotate. It rotates once a day, exactly twelve hours, and the specific time can be identified according to the scale of the pointer pointing to the sundial.
This thing is composed of hundreds of parts in total, and it needs to be wound once every six days, that is, the reed is tightened again to continue to provide power to this timer."
The clock in front of him was not called a clock at this time, but was called a timer by the institute. There was nothing wrong with that, it was an instrument for measuring time.
Moreover, they do not call the dial on it a dial, but a sundial. Luo Chong took a closer look. Wow, isn't it a sundial? This group of people directly copied a sundial disk and put it on as a dial. If it is not a sundial, what is it? !
In addition, this table clock does not have a pendulum. It is not powered by gravity, but by the elasticity of the winding spring.
And they seem to have designed it according to the idea of a sundial. There is only one pointer on it, that is, the hour hand, and there is no minute hand or second hand.
So its maximum accuracy is probably about a few minutes and quarters. It is probably difficult to be accurate to the minute and second.
"Yes, this thing is very practical and worth developing, but the name is not concise enough. You call it a timer, but you might as well call it a clock. A clock is also a timer. If you can install a heavy hammer and a clock on it, so that it can automatically ring every half hour, it will be even better.
And this disc should be made into a more detailed circular table, instead of just putting a sundial on it. When you add a pendulum and a table to it, you can officially call it a clock."
Luo Chong praised them twice, and then began to talk nonsense to fool them, wanting to change the name of the timer to a clock.
The people in the institute naturally accepted it with pleasure. You must know that Luo Chong is an omnipotent master in their hearts. They all have to record the opinions put forward by the leader in a small notebook.
"The leader is knowledgeable and talented. He can tell where to improve with just one look. Then the leader will take a look at these two gifts. Is there anything else that needs to be improved?" Ao Fei flattered Luo Chong with a smile, and then jokingly asked Luo Chong to guess the use of the other two things.
"Testing me?!"
Luo Chong raised his eyebrows and looked at the other two instruments.
"Of the four gifts you made, two are timers, one is an hourglass, and the other is a clock. I think the remaining two should have the same function.
There are iron plates on top that can carry heavy objects, and there are weights on the side to balance the weight. There are also scales on the cantilever. Do I need to guess? These are clearly two scales, one large and one small!
Are you testing me with this?!"
(End of this chapter)
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