Chapter 1021

Therefore, he decided not to go to the capital for the time being, but to rush to Yangzhou first to meet with Su Song, the original escapement creator who is currently working in Yangzhou.

Su Song is from Tong'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province. He is extremely talented and skilled, and is eager to learn. According to the theory of classics and history, as for arithmetic, earthly stagnation, mountain classics, materia meditation, and Lu Lu, he is definitely a master of all abilities no less than Shen Kuo.

The most important thing is that in the first year of Yuanyou, Su Qing presided over the development of a water transport instrument station based on the experience of his predecessors, coupled with his solid theory and basic skills.

This is a giant astronomical instrument that is twelve meters high and seven meters wide, like a three-story building.

Su Song not only created the instruments, but also left drawings and explanations. He wrote in his descriptions. "Also, he adopted the theory of various schools, and the instruments that store the instruments and images, and they were placed in one Taichung. The table had two partitions, and the armillary sphere was placed on the upper side, and the shaft of the pivot wheel was trapped in the middle. The bell and drums were always in the movement of Chen on the wheel... The wheel was stimulated by water, and the wheel was rotated and the instruments and images were moved."

This can be regarded as the world's first mechanical device that relies on hydraulic power to report time as the movement of celestial bodies. It also has three functions: observing the movement of celestial bodies, demonstrating changes in celestial phenomena, and having wooden people automatically ringing bells and shaking bells as the celestial phenomena move, and accurately reporting time.

It can be said that this is a precision instrument that combines clock machinery and observation astronomical machinery.

Not only did he create such a great machine, but importantly, his official career was much better than Shen Kuo. During the Yuanyou period, he was appointed as the Minister of Shangshu and the Minister of the Secretariat, and the Prime Minister.

However, this neutral tycoon was honest and unwilling to join the old party who liked to jump up and down. After working for less than a year, he couldn't stand the noise of those guys, so he simply resigned from his position and became a local official.

Go to Yangzhou. Shen Kuo is the New Party and Su Song is a neutral faction. There is not much conflict between the two of them. Instead, they are attracted to each other because of their similar knowledge.

After Shen Kuo found Su Song and exchanged Wang Yang's ideas and ideas with Su Song, Su Song also agreed very much. After the two bigwigs combined, coupled with the idea proposed by Wang Yang, a young old driver.

Finally, after nearly a year, the task was finally completed. Shen Kuo brought this treasure to Tokyo Bianliang to meet the emperor Zhao Xu.

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After the emperor helped Shen Kuo up, his eyes fell on the wooden box close to a height, with curiosity in his eyes.

At this time, the heavy wooden box had been carried into the imperial study room.

"Your Majesty, this is a mechanical timer that does not require sunlight or water flow, so as to accurately time the time." Shen Kuo signaled, then took the initiative to walk to the box, signaled the imperial guards to help them, and then began to dismantle the wooden box.

After a while, the wooden box was finally pried open, and after a large amount of cotton used for shockproofing was stripped open, the true appearance was finally revealed.

Looking at the tower about half a meter high, about two feet and five feet wide, and about three feet thick. The structure inside is mostly made of wood, and only a small amount of copper machinery, the emperor Zhao Xu felt that his eyes were protruding outward.

"This thing is also a timer?" He stood in front of him and looked at the machine with gears everywhere. It was really a bit different from the drip of the copper pot used in the palace.

"Yes, it's the timer..." Shen Kuo took a deep breath, looking at the mechanical timer designed and created by him, Su Song and Wang Yang with great pride.

Especially directly in front, a copper disc about one and a half feet in the radius is marked with small scales. In addition to the small scales, there are also large scales, and the large scales look like an animal.

Emperor Zhao Xu looked carefully and couldn't help but say curiously. "Rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake... Could it be that this is arranged according to the twelve hours?"

"Your Majesty is wise. These smallest scales represent the blink of an eye, and a second, while the large scales represent the hour. Look at this again. This is the second hand, this is the minute hand, and this is the hour hand."

"One turn of the second hand is one minute, and one turn of the minute hand is half an hour. Every fifteen grids are moved by the minute hand, it is one quarter of an hour. The hour hand moves from one zodiac to another zodiac, and it is one hour..."

"How can this thing move? It really doesn't need to be driven by water?" Emperor Zhao Xu asked after turning the heavy mechanical timer several times.

"Your Majesty is wise, but it does not require water flow, but only needs to pull the copper chain to this position. Look, it starts to move..." Shen Kuo walked forward, reached in, and pulled a copper chain to the end.

Then after letting go, I heard a light crackling sound. Then the gears inside the machine began to rotate, and then the second hand began to move.

The sound of the machinery is not loud, and important parts are made of copper and animal grease is used as lubricant to minimize the noise of the machinery's original sound.

Emperor Zhao Xu even tried it himself several times. Almost every time he blinked his eyes, the second hand just reached the next square, which surprised him.

"Your Majesty, wait a little, and the time will be heard soon..." At this time, Shen Kuo suddenly said, and sure enough, just as the minute hand finally arrived at the midnight hand, and the hour hand arrived at the scale of the Maotu.

I heard the sound of ringing the bells from inside. The sound was naturally far from thicker than the bells of the ancient temple, but it was also clear and transparent, and I knocked it all over the place.

"Your Majesty, this means that you have just entered the hour of Mao. Because it is exactly the fourth hour from Zi to Mao, so at this time, the bell will be ringed everywhere to remind the hour of Mao has arrived."

"And, if you are worried about the loud bell, you can press this mechanism so that the bell will not ring and will not interfere with others."

As Shen Kuo explained, Emperor Zhao Xu felt that this thing was really good. "The corona needs sunlight, and the copper pot dripping requires water. As for this mechanical timer, it only needs to pull the copper chain, and it can move by itself and report the time by itself. It's wonderful, it's really wonderful..."

"I know Su Qing's ability. The water gaze he made back then was tall and majestic, and it was almost a scene of my Tokyo Bianliang. I didn't expect that it could be so exquisitely..."

"...Your Majesty, this is just a sample. According to Brother Wushan, oh no, according to Master Wang's idea, when this thing is completely made of copper and iron parts, it can be made more exquisitely, and can even be carried with you as big as a bowl."

Emperor Zhao Xu couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. "Can you carry it at any time to make it the size of a bowl?"

"Formal, after removing some of the structures used in the astronomical phenomena, Xiaguan and Lord Su were able to greatly reduce their size. Moreover, many of the components here can indeed be made more exquisitely and small without affecting their effectiveness."

"And if this copper chain is replaced by a spring, then it can indeed be achieved without fear of moving and easy to carry as Lord Wang said."

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