Iron Dynasty Novel Chapter 705

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“Your Majesty, this is what you asked for.”

In the glass workshop, the workshop supervisor handed a short glass rod to Xiao Ming. A clear white mark was visible in the middle of this glass rod.

This item was the reason Xiao Ming ca here; it was a thermoter.

Historically, the earliest thermoter was invented in 1593 by the Italian scientist Galileo.

This thermoter had an open-ended glass tube at one end and a walnut-sized glass bulb at the other. When used, the glass bulb was first heated, then the glass tube was inserted into water.

At this point, as the temperature changed, the water level in the glass tube would move up and down. The change and level of the temperature could be determined by how much it moved.

It can be said that the thermoter at this stage contained water. Then, in the seventeenth century, France reduced the volu of the glass bulb and changed the temperature-asuring substance to rcury. This was the prototype of later thermoters.

Following this, the Dutchman Fahrenheit used alcohol in 1709 and then rcury in 1714 as the asuring substance, creating more precise thermoters. This was the developnt process of the thermoter.

And with the birth of the thermoter, the Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature standards also ca into being.

Although the thermoter was only a small invention, this small invention was crucial, because only with a thermoter could specific temperature values be tested.

In fact, this glass rcury thermoter was not very precise or complex. The general steps were to first manufacture a hollow glass tube, which was not too difficult for the current glass workshop.

As for the rcury bulb and the small separating bubble in the thermoter, it was simply a matter of glass-blowing techniques.

After making the glass rod, rcury was injected, and then the glass tube was heated and sealed in a low-pressure environnt, with only the seal needing heating.

At this ti, the rcury part was at the other end, and glass did not conduct heat well, so it basically did not affect the rcury. After these steps were completed, the scale was marked. This work was also very simple because Xiao Ming had a ready-made standard reference; he only needed to follow the modern Celsius standard.

And he also planned to adopt Celsius as the Great Yu Empire’s future temperature standard.

The thermoter he held now was for asuring human body temperature. His purpose was to use the human body thermoter to establish the Great Yu Empire’s temperature standard, so that he could produce industrial thermoters and promote the temperature standard.

In his opinion, whether it was the steel industry or the slting industry, the temperature control of the production process was very strict. Precise temperature control could improve the quality of industrial production.

Therefore, after the human body thermoter, what he wanted to produce was an industrial bitallic thermoter. This bitallic thermoter worked on the principle that two different tals expand to different degrees when the temperature changes, and could be used to detect the temperature during industrial production.

This type of thermoter usually had tal strips made into a spiral shape. When the temperature of the multi-layered tal strips changed, the layers of tal would expand or contract differently, causing the spiral to coil or uncoil.

Since one end of the spiral was fixed and the other end was connected to a freely rotating pointer, when the bitallic strip sensed a temperature change, the pointer could indicate the temperature on a circular graduated scale.

For him, this type of thermoter could be produced by Qingzhou Province at its current stage. As for advanced resistance thermoters, they were still out of reach, but for him, this was sufficient. He only needed to give the structural diagram of the tal thermoter to a clockmaker. For a clockmaker who could manufacture pendulum clocks, this was not a difficult task.

“Oh, and besides that, what about the microscope?” Xiao Ming asked.

This ti, he not only assigned the glass workshop the task of producing thermoters but also instructed them to manufacture microscopes.

Compared to telescopes, the microscope was the other extre. He planned to have it manufactured and sent to the dical academy.

“Your Majesty, please wait. This microscope was made by another group of artisans, and it will be here imdiately,” the workshop supervisor said. As his words fell, an artisan ca towards him, carrying a microscope.

Like the monocular telescope, the microscope in the artisan’s hand had a rustic, 18th-century feel, with glass lenses and a tal body.

Having obtained these two items, Xiao Ming was very satisfied. He said to Qian Dafu, “Let’s go to the dical academy. It’s ti to let this Huang Tingzhi understand my capabilities.”

Xiao Ming was happy, and Qian Dafu also beca happy. Although he didn’t know what these two items were for, judging from Xiao Ming’s expression, they must be sothing formidable.

Leaving the glass workshop, the two went directly to the dical academy.

After splitting Bowen Academy, Xiao Ming found another location for the dical academy, not far from Bowen Academy, about the distance of two civilian neighborhoods.

The high mortality rate of injured soldiers in this northern war forced Xiao Ming to attach importance to the developnt of the dical academy. If dical technology could keep up, the reduction in soldiers would not have been so severe.

And in the future, the Great Yu Empire would face even more wars. At this ti, cultivating a group of refined dical officers was very important.

Upon arriving at the dical academy, Xiao Ming went directly to the dical clinic established within the academy. On weekdays, Huang Tingzhi would teach students and also treat common people here.

“Your Majesty.” Xiao Ming’s arrival greatly surprised Huang Tingzhi. He imdiately stood up and bowed.

Xiao Ming excused Huang Tingzhi from the formalities. He took out the thermoter and microscope and said to Huang Tingzhi, “Elder Huang, today I have co to give you two powerful tools.”

Huang Tingzhi was sowhat stunned. He looked at the glass rod in Xiao Ming’s hand, then at the microscope, and asked, confused, “Your Majesty, what are these?”

“A thermoter and a microscope,” Xiao Ming said. He wasn’t surprised that Huang Tingzhi didn’t recognize them, because Huang Tingzhi was currently diligently studying the dical classics he had given him and had not yet co into contact with Western concepts.

“This…” Huang Tingzhi was still sowhat confused.

Xiao Ming said, “How does Elder Huang usually determine if soone has a cold?”

“Naturally, through inspection, listening, questioning, and pulse-taking.”

Xiao Ming said seriously, “With this item, I do not need inspection, listening, questioning, or pulse-taking to know if this person is ill.”

“Your Majesty jests! Without inspection, listening, questioning, or pulse-taking, how could Your Majesty possibly know?” Huang Tingzhi suddenly burst into laughter upon hearing this.

Xiao Ming knew that Huang Tingzhi was very confident, and had always worried that he would disdain Western dicine, which was why he ca personally this ti to let Huang Tingzhi experience a different kind of dical skill.

Upon hearing this, he said, “Elder Huang only needs to use this item to asure the body temperature of the patients in the dical clinic, and you will know.”

Then Xiao Ming explained the principle of the thermoter and briefly ntioned knowledge about human body temperature.

Holding the thermoter, Huang Tingzhi’s expression was greatly shocked. He half-believingly tested the body temperature of every patient in the dical clinic.

When he saw the temperature readings of each patient, he was completely stunned.