Early autumn is already in the shores of Lake Argentina in early March, but fortunately, it is not too cold.

Pan Yan, Pan Yin and his son were sitting in a simple shed woven with reeds and teaching a group of students. These students were from an institution recently split from the Institute of Natural Sciences, and also set up a high school to recruit students nationwide to cultivate combined talents. The course was taught by Pan Yan, and his son Pan Yin demonstrated it aside. The course content was mainly some basic electrical knowledge.

Considering that electricity was not yet effectively carried out in Europe at this time (Europeans have not even recognized the "electricity"), in order to prevent leakage, the Executive Committee approved the Institute of Natural Sciences, the Institute of Natural Sciences, separated out some of the talents and students who were in charge of electrical research, and merged them into the Institute of Engineering and Technology with other institutions that studied machine tools and steam engines, and moved the institute's site to Tieling County, a major town in the northwest. As part of the Institute of Engineering, the Institute of Electrical Sciences was ordered by the Executive Committee to move to the Argentine Lakeside far away from the local area by the Executive Committee, which was located near the town of El Calafate on the south bank of the lake in later generations, which was very desolate. This shows that the Pan family and his son were willing to come here to work and made considerable sacrifices.

Pan Yan and his son and a group of students are also the first group of residents of this newly built settlement. For a long time in the future, they will squat here to teach, learn various electrical knowledge (of course it is very simple), and continue to do some basic electrical experiments to accumulate foundations for future development.

At this time, the old man Pan Yanpan, whose hair was already a little gray, was explaining the principle of electromagnetic induction to the students. With the help of several older students, Pan Yin was busy fiddling with things such as lead-acid batteries, natural magnets, energized coils, copper (silver) wires, and measuring meters to allow students to watch.

"Primary students may have seen it, so they can continue to do your homework." Pan Yan held his eyes and said seriously: "Psychologists in lower grades should carefully observe how electricity and magnetism transform each other. Electricity can produce magnets, and magnets can also be used to generate electricity. If you see that, cutting magnetic induction wires with coils will produce electric current. Look at the ammeter in your senior brother's hand, is the pointer moving? This is a current, which also means that magnets can indeed produce electricity!"

The ammeter handmade by the Institute of Electrical Science looks quite primitive and simple, and the accuracy of the pointer scale is also very suspicious. Only the pointer is shaking, but if you want to say how much current is, Pan Yin, who uses the meter, can give a rough value based on the scale. What? Do you want to be more accurate? To be honest, I don’t know, just be roughly accurate. The requirements are not that high yet.

There are about fifteen or sixteen students in the class at this time, basically all of them are first-year high school students; and the so-called "high-grade students" who are working hard on their homework (mainly second-year high school. Although the East Coast school system has been reformed several times, it is still only two years old. The system of teaching and helping is implemented, that is, the first year of high school students will start to divide the subjects. The best among the second-year high school students will also teach some simple knowledge to the first-year high school students. A teacher only brings a small number of students to ensure the quality of teaching), and there are probably eleven or two people. There are about thirty people in total. At this time, the East Coast Republic of China specializes in the study of electricity. Of course, Nantec or China Railway Company may also have some employees who check telegraph lines and replace battery electrolytes and electrodes, but they do not understand theoretical knowledge and cannot be considered researchers.

Thanks to the "Science Spring" plan, the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Academy has recently received a large amount of special research and development funds, with the amount of about 50,000 yuan per year. If the funds allocated by the Institute of Engineering according to the share are included, the annual research costs of the Institute of Electrical Engineering have reached 70,000 to 80,000 yuan, which is quite sufficient. The "Science Spring" plan review team also made a separate commitment. If the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Academy feels it is necessary, it can also submit a separate report and request additional special funds. The review team will decide whether to approve it after a special review.

The R&D funds increased several times, and the Institute of Electrical Sciences suddenly became widespread. Although they were ordered to move to the rarely-petitive Xuefeng Lake (i.e. Lake Argentine, named after the snow peaks surrounding the lakeside), this was not a big problem. The four time travel teachers, including the Pan family and his son, naturally had special compensation for the benefits. The students were also excited because they were able to learn such "mysterious" and high-end knowledge, so they had no complaints and started learning and research on the beautiful lakeside with peace of mind. Even a few days ago, another time travel teacher in charge of external relations was sent back to the local area by Old Man Pan. The purpose was to go to junior high schools in various counties to conduct basic investigations, and then recruit some potential students to study at Xuefeng Lake. After all, now that everyone has money, it is time to cultivate more talents.

Of course, the newly recruited students, according to the rules set by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, once they agree to join the electrical institute, they must move their families to this secret place named "Xuefeng Township" to settle down every day. The children study and do research. Their families will grazing in various places nearby to maintain part of the consumption of this small settlement. At present, more than a hundred families of more than 30 students and teachers have already settled down.

In addition to them, there are many police officers in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the settlement, with a number of no less than a hundred. These carefully selected and fully armed police supervised a group of more than a thousand Alaucan workers (collected from the Kingdom of Araucania). While struggling to build some residences, factories and other facilities, and when a team of mules and horses transported supplies to the south, they also had to play porters. In short, it was still very difficult.

After finishing today's class, Old Man Pan signaled the students to rest for fifteen minutes and then went to the next room to have tea. After they left, some students gathered around the instrument they just demonstrated and started chattering. This is a simple hand-crank generator with a simple structure, which is basically magnets, painted coils, transmission devices, etc. It is driven by hand-crank power to rotate and cut magnetic induction wires, and then generate electricity. It is basically not practical and is made purely for the convenience of lectures. However, in this time and space of the 17th century, this simple hand-crank generator that emerged from nowhere was definitely very important in its meaning, because it represents the germination of the electrification revolution.

Unfortunately, the voltage generated by this hand-crank generator is still not as good as the voltage of the chemical batteries made by the East Coast people. This makes everyone realize that if the generator wants to be really practical and replace the battery, it may still have to continue to research and improve, such as the "transformer" mentioned in class, etc. Currently, senior students in the upper grades already know how to wind the coil to change the output voltage of the generator.

While the students were discussing around the generator, the Pan family and his son were also chatting in the room next door. Old Man Pan was an electrician before traveling through time. He was only 25 years old and his skills were just that. He was not as good as the top and bottom. However, in this time and space of the 17th century, except for a few physics teachers who had not yet lost their knowledge, he was definitely a high-end talent. If Dongban wanted to make some achievements in electrical science, he could only rely on these two knives. As for his son Pan Yin, he was purely a second generation born in this time and space, which could barely be regarded as a "family origin" but it was nonsense to say that talent was very talented. At present, because his knowledge is much richer than that of students, he is a "big brother" in the eyes of so many students in the first and second grades of high school. Sometimes he would teach on behalf of Old Man Pan, and his prestige is quite considerable.

At this time, Old Man Pan took a sip of tea and said to his son: "After a while, after Lao Niu came back from the local area, we can start to make the next plan. There are many things that can be improved in the existing hand-crank generators. In the past, it was limited to funding, materials, and attention. We mainly focused on cultivating technical talents and making some simple batteries and electrical instruments. Now the funding is relatively sufficient, and some technical difficulties have been overcome one after another in recent years. The superiors have become increasingly aware of the importance of electricity. In this way, our opportunity will not only cultivate more talents, but also create more patents. Which patents are in the institute and which ones are we can obtain in the future.

We must distinguish them clearly. There are some students who can be left to the country. If you want to do something with us in the future, we need help from others in the future. Now that we have taught them well, we can save us a lot of trouble in the future. Remember, it is actually a matter of time before the replacement of steam power. Electric motors have greater advantages than steam engines, but the existing technology conditions are not mature and cannot be used on a large scale. However, as long as we persist and continue to research and invention, the technology of motors will become more mature sooner or later. In this way, we, who have seized the initiative in the electrical industry, have the advantages of being much bigger than other families that have come to know afterwards. Work hard, son, the future is yours!"

"Dad, I understand..." Pan Yin nodded, and then asked sarcastically: "But the motor is not in a hurry. Some electrolysis tests we did before have created a lot of interesting things. Should we register a patent? If we register, most of these patents belong to the country, and we are losing too much."
Chapter completed!