Chapter 206 Spring Centrifugal Pump

"What happened?"

Jeanne came hurriedly on horseback, and before the horse had stopped, she easily jumped off.

Pasrick, who had come along with him, also dismounted at the same time as the sound of horse hooves.

Horn smiled awkwardly: "There is a problem in the measurement of the depth of the salt well. You have to help us weld another section of iron pipe."

Picking up a piece of iron, Jeanna stepped forward, squinted her eyes, and tiny lightning began to jump in her hands, and intense white light flew out from between her fingers.

The edge of the iron pipe began to melt rapidly and connected with the new iron pipe, but the joint seemed to be surrounded by a thin black swimming ring.

Different from the initial burst of lightning that spurted out from her palms, after a long period of welding work, Jeanna's control over lightning has reached a new level.

In this way, a thick iron pipe about ten meters long and as thick as an arm was welded.

"Okay." Horn clapped his hands to signal everyone to pay attention. "Put the iron pipe into the salt well and start filling it with water."

The pipes had to be filled with water first because Horn did not use the double-donkey-head pull-type structure of the original Newcomen steam engine, but instead used a centrifugal pump directly in one step.

Anyway, brine is not as viscous as oil, and there is no need to handle high-pressure liquids, so why not use a more efficient structure like a centrifugal pump?

"Is this the clockwork engine pump you mentioned?" Pasrick put his hand into the iron pipe and fiddled with the fan blades. "It feels no different from the blower at the salt stove."

"Of course there is a difference." Horn pulled Pasrick away and directed the beastmen to install the pump on the iron pipe of the salt well. "The blades of the blower are straight, and mine are curved."

"Is there any difference?" Looking at the water pump being assembled, Jeanna was confused.

Horn smiled and said, "Of course, the curved blades will generate centrifugal force when they rotate. As long as the direction is correct, the water can be thrown out and a vacuum will be formed in the center of the pump.

To fill the vacuum, atmospheric pressure pushes the water up from below, and it flows out of this outlet.”

Walking around the ugly big guy in front of him, Pasrick felt that it was just a lump of iron made up of a bunch of iron parts, discs and gears.

He could still hear the echo when he tapped it with his thick knuckles.

Several workers were carrying buckets and pouring water into the pipe one bucket at a time until the entire pipe was filled.

After walking around twice, Pasrick thought for a while: "You mean, if you use this fan to blow the wind element, you can suck up the water?"

"Yes."

"That's impossible." Paslick immediately shook his head, "I know you might have gotten the inspiration from the elephant's trunk sucking water, but that's just a small amount of water.

In fact, the suction force required to draw water from a well is so great that we once had a witch who could shape the element of wind, and she tried to draw water from the well by sucking wind from it.

But this witch who is so powerful that she can blow down 3-4000-pound rocks can't hold it back after pumping the water up a foot. Is your water pump more powerful than the witch?"

"Was the well lid closed when you were pumping? Was there a gap in the well wall?"

"It's not covered." Paslick asked back, "Does this have anything to do with whether there are cracks in the well wall?"

Horn was suddenly speechless and didn't know how to answer. Was he going to talk about everything from Newton to atmospheric pressure?

It seems that it is time to write a book on natural common sense and scientific methodology. How about calling it "Mathematical Principles of Natural Theology"?
"Don't look at the advertisement, look at the effect." Horn pushed Pasrick away, walked to the starter of the clockwork centrifugal pump, and grasped the clockwork key which was about the size of a tractor crank.

At this time, Horn couldn't help but feel a little excited. He had been searching for this kind of industrial machine for so long, and finally there was a glimmer of possibility. When he first learned that there was no coal or sulfur in this world, and that water vapor could inexplicably penetrate the void, he had given up hope.

But it is true that after searching for a long time, I finally found it without any effort.

The steam engine brought the first industrial revolution to mankind. It quickly surpassed water power and animal power, liberating human hands and productivity.

Could this clockwork centrifugal pump, with a structure like a large clock disc, be the steam engine of this world?

The centrifugal pump consists of three parts: a spring box made of mountain copper springs and star-cast gears, and inside the spring pump are curved fan blades and a long pumping pipe.

The mountain copper spring in the barrel is installed on the escapement speed regulation structure, which is connected to the star-cast gear with a radius of about one meter, and the star-cast gear is connected to the ordinary cast iron gear with a radius of 10 centimeters.

When the large and small gears are meshed for transmission, the gear diameter is inversely proportional to the rotational speed, so when the large gear rotates at 200 revolutions per minute, the small gear can rotate at about 2000 revolutions per minute.

All Horn had to do was input enough energy into the 2000-pound Starcast gear to make the 2-pound gear turn at 200 revolutions per minute.

According to the formula of kinetic energy, the kinetic energy Horn inputs to start the operation is only about one thousandth, and the rest is provided by the ether inside the gear.

This is just a theoretical value. The actual speed is estimated to be less than 1500 revolutions per minute, but it is enough.

In addition, Horn also discovered a very interesting point, that is, although Shilov said that if the handle is turned, it will absorb a small amount of mana every once in a while.

But under the control of the speed regulation of the mainspring and escapement, it actually no longer needs to absorb additional mana, but the loss is a little higher.

Horn slowly turned the clockwork key until it was tight, then he took a deep breath and released his hand: "Gear machine, start!"

Amid the creaking sound of the spring friction, the spring key began to turn slowly. Under the escapement speed regulating mechanism, it turned extremely slowly, while the huge star-cast gear began to rotate rapidly.

Amid the sound of gears meshing, the pipes began to vibrate with a humming sound, and the sound of water flowing like a tide continued to ripple in the pipes.

Under Pasrick's incredulous eyes, the brine at the bottom of the well gushed out like a fountain, and the beastmen hurriedly used basins to catch it.

The Carthaginian king's hand anxiously and distressedly directed the beastmen who were clumsily trying to receive the brine: "Oops, it didn't go in. It's full, full, ah, it's going to overflow."

Standing next to the gear, the strong wind brought by the huge gear blew Horn's bangs into a middle-parted shape.

Pasrick approached slowly as if in a dream, and stretched out his hand as if trying to touch the gear.

"Be careful." Horn warned, "Yesterday, a refugee who was helping with the debugging got his hand caught in it. If Das hadn't intervened in time and chopped off his forearm, he would have almost died."

Speaking of this, Horn couldn't help but sigh. He never thought that Shilov would act so quickly.

After Horn told her the principle, she drew the design in one day, made the prototype and modified it in two days, and then worked with Jeanne to successfully make the first trial version in another two days.

Jeanna stared blankly at the machine in front of her.

What would happen if you put this thing on a carriage and added horns and spikes on the front? What would happen when facing a knight?
I'm afraid only the legendary knight can be compared with him?

Excluding the time it takes to create the Star-Forged Gears, even if there are no ready-made materials, it would only take a little over a week to manufacture and assemble this thing from scratch.

How long does it take to train a knight? Ten years, or twenty years, not to mention the great knight who stands at the top of all extraordinary knights.

Perhaps, this is the hope to fight against the extraordinary knights?
(End of this chapter)