In order to speed up the progress of the research project, Roland slightly adjusted his work and rest time. After lunch, he would sleep in the office for two or three hours every day, which was equivalent to increasing the number of times he entered the dream world in disguise.
For this reason, the God's Punishment Warriors who appear in groups after noon have also become a great sight in the castle district.
Thanks to the help of the Greycastle Design Bureau, the new batch of industrial projects are progressing quite smoothly. By the last week of the autumn season, the tractor has basically completed the finalized design.
Before that, all the project processes of Neverwinter were first hand-manufactured by Anna, verified the feasibility and finalized, and then divided the production parts and delivered them to the factory for single-machine trial production. Finally, the flow plan was determined until assembly. It takes a long time, and it is easy to take detours.
Especially when it comes to dividing production parts, the processing capability of Black Fire is far superior to any machine tool, so the parts that Anna can cut out may not be produced by the factory. There are hundreds of parts in a machine. It is undoubtedly a huge amount of work to determine which parts can be completed by the factory and which must be handed over to Anna for post-processing. Only after the complete assembly of a finished product can the project enter the mass production stage.
In fact, when the second-generation steam engine was produced before, it suffered in this link. Although a pressure valve component seemed simple, it was found that the pass rate was surprisingly low when it was officially mass-produced. As a result, the relevant production line was overturned. The final product was also delayed by more than half a month.
The Greycastle Design Bureau is equivalent to completing all the preliminary work for Anna, from testing and finalizing to the design of the assembly line, and whether ordinary machine tools can meet the requirements, these processes can be completed directly in the dream world. Therefore, once the plan is finalized, the Ministry of Industry can immediately organize production, which also greatly shortens the research and development cycle and cost of new projects.
Roland named this highly anticipated agricultural machine "Harvest".
It will inherit the name of five pairs of road wheels and cultivate the land of Graycastle.
Of course, he didn't let Master Xie idle. The current Harvest is just a rudimentary chassis. It is not a big problem to hang a plow as a tractor, but it is still a long way from the ultimate form of five pairs of road wheels.
He hopes to implement everything the army needs on this chassis.
As for the transmitter, Qingqing quickly recruited several candidates, including fresh graduates and folk radio enthusiasts, but Roland's head swelled when he saw those circuit diagrams, and finally he ordered them to be changed to real ones. The graphics are barely able to tell what is what. Even so, his learning of this knowledge was very slow, so he could only forcefully memorize the sample pictures, and then slowly ponder with Anna.
In addition to these two major projects, several other key preparation projects in Neverwinter City have successively produced results.
The first is the North-South Artery Project.
Horford Quinn sent him a letter saying that Dawn had invested nearly 1,000 people to set up cement calcining plants in two border cities. These factories can produce hundreds of tons of cement every day to meet the needs of hardening the road surface. Now the road from Yingfengling to Shining River is basically completed, and the second half of the road in Longshan has also started, and it is expected to be completed in about half a month.
Even with the help of Lian and Moriel, this construction speed is enough to be regarded as an excellent performance. Obviously, the Quinn family has put a lot of effort into this matter. Coupled with the first completed road from the eastern turning point of the Chishui River to the Evernight City, this meant that Neverwinter was only one step away from projecting its power from the land to the war zone thousands of kilometers away.
The second is the "Hump" steam truck, the supporting project of the Aorta Plan, the first of which also rolled off the factory line and entered service.
It adopts a classic flat-head cab, front engine, front single and rear dual six-wheel layout. Except for the slightly longer head (in order to plug the huge water tank), the shape is almost the same as that of later trucks. The self-weight is about ten tons, and the designed carrying capacity is six tons. It can maintain a stable speed of 40 kilometers per hour on a flat concrete road and drive continuously for 300 kilometers.
When necessary, the driver can also fill it with rainwater, well water, or even urine to increase the mileage. Of course, even if there is no supply, it is enough to travel between the city and the river.
Unlike armored trains, each truck needs at least two drivers. In other words, even if Neverwinter can build a large number of trucks at once, there will be a huge gap in drivers. Fortunately, the prototype car is already available. Next, we only need to establish a driving school and quickly train a group of qualified personnel. After all, there are no traffic regulations in this era. As long as the car can be started, everything else can be said.
Finally, there are lead-acid batteries.
Although it is inconspicuous and the technical content is much lower than the previous major projects, it is not small at all.
On trucks, for example, it powers the vehicle's headlights and taillights, the only electrical equipment on the Hump. With lights, trucks can travel from day to night in an instant, nearly doubling their efficiency.
It is also used in the startup of the biplane, which can save a lot of effort by the ground crew. More importantly, if the engine stalls in the air, the pilot can directly try to start it again, which improves safety in disguise.
In short, relying on the occupancy of a large number of migrants, the industrial capacity of Neverwinter City once again broke through the bottleneck and entered a period of rapid growth.
However, Roland is also clear that such an increase is not entirely due to population. If the production is still manual workshop, let alone a few months, even a few years may not be able to train a layman who knows nothing into a qualified worker. And here, those experienced old workers are only afraid that you will not learn, not afraid that you will not learn, because promotion and salary increase have a great relationship with the apprentices under them. They are always hungry and eager to learn everything. Plenty of money to teach.
Ordinary people only need a week or two of hands-on teaching to understand the basic operation of the machine tool. Even if the new entrants do not know a word, they can process qualified parts by following the steps.
With the new system of productivity, the promotion of universal education, and the emphasis on creativity and R&D, the industrialization of cities will only get faster and faster in the future.
But it wasn't all good news for him.
According to Iron Axe's report, the First Army is under increasing pressure on the front line. With the spreading red fog, the devil has been able to reach the Cage Mountain area, and some people even claim to have seen a terrifying beast in Dawn. figure.
When he was in the Fertile Plain, Roland knew the enemy's tactics of running for thousands of miles. Although there were not many troops that could be mobilized, even a few mad demons could cause considerable damage to the rear.
And now those scattered terrifying beasts are likely to be sentinels to find out the route for the raid.
If the First Army wants to counter this, it must have the same mobility.
He sighed lightly, perhaps it was time to dispatch the Witch League and the Aerial Knights to the front line.