bayedsolid Chapter 501 Popular Science - Was the power of the treasure ship sailing to the West steam?
Chapter 501 Popular Science - Was the power of the treasure ship sailing to the West steam?
Some people on the Internet believe that the origin of the virus originated in Greater China, but I don’t. However, I think this theory is tenable.
Here is some information about the components needed for a steam car:
——For example, cylinder (bellows), piston, eccentric connecting rod, crankshaft (crank), gear (eccentric wheel), steam furnace (kettle, pot), etc.
Here——
Around 400 BC, probably during the Warring States Period, mechanical gears were invented and used in chariots.
Around 100 BC in the Western Han Dynasty, cranks and inclined connecting rods were invented. The rotary winnowing windmill is a representative application of this technology.
In 31 AD, the hydraulic bellows, also known as water bellows, hydraulic blowers, and blast bellows, were invented. They were mainly used in iron smelting, copper smelting, and pottery making.
The hydraulic blower transfers water energy to the eccentric connecting rod through the rolling of the waterwheel, which drives the piston, which is connected to the leather wind bag, and continuously opens and closes the wind bag to blow air. The whole device works in the opposite way to the steam engine, but it has the same working principle as the early steam engine.
The "steam engine" is the reverse process of the "hydraulic bellows".
This reverse process has actually also been discovered.
During the Tang Dynasty, Yixing (Zhang Sui, 687-727 AD), a master of astronomers and mathematicians, who was also famous as a monk, first proposed the idea of an automatic car in his book "Dayan Calendar". He put forward the bold idea of "stimulating the rotation of copper wheels and adding steam power", and called this machine a "car".
Xu Ning, a scientist in the Tang Dynasty, also wrote in his book "Theory of Fire and Stone" that "burning coal in a cauldron and driving it with hot smoke will make the wheel turn."
It is recorded in Tianhuang Yudie during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty: "The treasure ship that He rode was named Dafu. Its top was like a tower, with a pointed bottom and a wide top. Its frame was made of steel and its movement was powered by water."
In the Ming Dynasty, Tang Shunzhi's military book "Tang Jingchuan Compilation of Military Affairs" has this description: "One woman is driving a boat by herself, and another woman is sitting in a small boat. They don't need oars or sails, and they can cross the river quickly. Their anger will make the attackers fierce."
Wang Zheng's "Illustrated Description of Strange Objects" in the Ming Dynasty also has a description of "the fireboat leaving on its own".
Qing Dynasty, Nan Huairen steam car.
The process of development during the dynasties is as follows:
All technical conditions existed before the Tang Dynasty - there was a theory in the Tang Dynasty (there is no record of whether it was put into practice) - there may have been some development in the Song Dynasty but there was certainly no official application - there was a discontinuity in the Yuan Dynasty - there was actual application in the Ming Dynasty - there was only one car in the Qing Dynasty.
After sorting out all the sequences, there is only one conclusion that can be drawn - the house was robbed.
Moreover, it is possible that the theft of property had been going on for many dynasties, but it became more blatant in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, turning the tables on Tiangang.
Not to mention the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the thieves must have been missionaries.
These missionaries were even famous enough that most people could remember their names.
Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) - During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty,
Johann Adam Schall ...
Nan Huairen (1623-1688) - during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty.
Just pay a little attention to the year written above.
We can now have a very clear idea of the role these three people, as well as the other unknown missionaries they brought to China, played in what later generations believed to be the "introduction of Western learning to the East."
Gua felt that Matteo Ricci's stealing before was still stealing secretly.
The latter two basically got them for free, or were given to them for free by the Qing court.
for instance.
The Ming Dynasty changed to the Qing Dynasty, but the Qing was a foreign race. After the Qing army entered the pass, "guarding against the Han" became the basic national policy.
Therefore, the director of the Imperial Observatory in the Qing Dynasty has always been a missionary. Johann Adam Schall von Bell was the first director, and Ferdinand Verbiest also served as director.
In the field of astronomy, which is related to destiny, the Qing government actually used Western missionaries.
To put it in a broader sense, Western missionaries actually gained control of the Imperial Observatory during the Qing Dynasty, and the field of astronomy became a Western cultural colony.
So what about outside of astronomy?
It’s terrifying to think about it. . . .
Anyway, two years after Nan Huairen's death, the West invented the steam engine.
Some inventions and reforms in industry cannot be achieved out of nothing.
How could everything in the West that was originally backward suddenly become a representative of advancement?
The invention, creation and application of all new things cannot be achieved overnight. They require long-term accumulation and appropriate timing.
And China has accumulated this for thousands of years.
I actually became the lagging party...
Ridiculous!!!