Capítulo 1447: Chapter 1353
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While the Arican was speaking, the steam engine behind him had already heated the boiler, and began to slowly drive the cotton gin.
Two technicians poured large bundles of seed cotton, which is freshly picked cotton balls, into the feed hopper. Inside the machine, there are two rows of fast-rotating comb-like tal teeth, which catch the cotton fibers and pull them through a narrow sh sieve into the drying chamber at the rear.
Because the cotton seeds are relatively large, most are filtered out by the comb teeth, and the few that slip through cannot pass through the sieve, leaving almost pure cotton fiber to enter the drying chamber.
The steam expelled from the steam engine is guided into the drying chamber, “drying” the cotton wadding.
When the technicians opened the drying chamber, what they took out was batches of lint cotton, now free of seeds.
The entire process took less than ten minutes!
Count Erlach was so amazed by the efficient production process that he was speechless. To think, cotton seeds are the bane of spinning; if it were done by hand, removing the seeds from so much cotton would require seventy or eighty people.
He couldn’t help but loudly praise Dorian: “This machine is so magical, it’s like magic.”
His strong Swiss-accented German imdiately drew a disdainful sidelong glance from an Italian nearby.
The latter muttered in French to his companion, “Getting worked up over sothing like this, what a bumpkin…”
After all, Count Erlach was also a noble, and knew so French, so his face imdiately flushed red, just as he was about to protest, he heard another Italian say: “Yes, they just stole Baron Whitney’s patent.”
“It is said that Baron Whitney has already invented a new cotton gin using what’s called ‘centrifugal separation technology,’ which is more than twice as efficient as this machine, and the cotton produced can directly go into the spinning machine.
“Now he has authorized the new machine to two companies in the Louisiana Colony, which has led many Arican farms to choose to ship their seed cotton to New Orleans for processing.”
With the excellent research environnt of the French Academy of Sciences, Whitney, just in his spare ti while developing high-precision milling machines, casually invented the next generation of cotton gins.
Currently, this machine is bringing him an annual authorization inco of twenty or thirty thousand francs, while those two companies in Louisiana can earn Arican farm owners millions in processing fees.
Count Erlach was stunned to hear this, feeling that he truly was a bumpkin, as he had never even seen outdated machines.
He tugged at his mistress, pretending as if nothing had happened, and turned to leave the Arican exhibition area.
In front was the Parma booth, and Count Erlach felt sowhat relieved, knowing that Parma is a traditional agricultural country, mainly producing wheat, cheese, and the like. There shouldn’t be anything here to embarrass him.
However, he had just stepped over the fence of the Parma exhibition area when he vaguely heard the roar of a steam engine again.
Dorian pointed at the huge slowly rolling ‘iron plate’ in the middle of the exhibition area and curiously asked: “Darling, what’s that doing?”
“Ahem…” Count Erlach coughed awkwardly, considering whether or not to flee.
Fortunately, the explanation from a nearby Parma official got him out of his predicant, “Ladies and gentlen, please look, this is the most advanced cheese production technology in the world! A patent from the Palace of Versailles!”
In reality, it was Joseph’s patent authorization – to help his sister improve Parma’s economy, he had so small gadgets designed according to future models. However, he required that the Parma side not disclose the identity of the patent holder.
The Parma official pointed to a huge iron churn: “Here is the mixing barrel.
“Using the technology authorization from the French Brewing Technology Association, our milk can easily be preserved for a month.
“Dairy farrs from various regions bring their produce to the factory, then add coagulant, ferntation powder, salt, and flavoring here and mix it with the steam engine.
“It takes just 30 minutes to evenly mix several tons of milk.”
Count Erlach’s eyes widened again.
Bern also has a cheese industry, so he knows well that stirring is the most labor-intensive and ti-consuming process in cheese making – typically, a horse might work half a day and still not stir 300 pounds of milk.
This machine, running for half an hour, can do the work of more than a dozen horses!
He sighed inwardly; if he hadn’t decided never to return to Switzerland, he would have to suggest to Congress to buy a few of these machines, otherwise, it wouldn’t be long before the People of Swiss would all be eating Parse cheese.
However, the Parma official continued to ‘dishearten’ him: “Take a look, the ’round plate’ back there is the press, which can process 4 tons of coagulated curds per hour.”
In the cheese production process, whey is needed to obtain a solid with a firm texture and reduce the moisture content for long-term storage.
This is another labor-intensive step.
Count Erlach was already sowhat numb; this cheese-producing machine, if running continuously, might produce more cheese than most of Bern.
He unconsciously walked forward, while other Parma officials were introducing another larger machine, “This latest model of the ham manufacturing machine not only produces quickly but can turn one kilogram of at into one and a half kilograms of ham!”
Count Erlach imdiately stopped in his tracks.
How is that possible?!
Usually, one pound of at can produce half a pound of ham if you’re lucky, yet this machine can make the at increase!
He hurried to follow the Parmans, watching as they put pieces of pork into the grinder, and in less than ten minutes, the minced at went along the conveyor belt into the mixing barrel.
Soone else poured bags of white powder into the mixing barrel, seemingly flour, along with seasonings and spices.
Then the mixing barrel began to rotate.
The Parma official explained: “Here, we can utilize the heat from the steam engine for heating, and finely control the temperature with instrunts, better than the skills of the best ham artisans.
“Of course, this process takes a long ti.
“So we have prepared a finished product display over there.”
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The Whitney Cotton Gin was a cottonseed separation chanical device successfully developed in 1793 by Arican inventor Eli Whitney. By using a design of gears and tallic hook teeth, the device increased the efficiency of separating short-fibered cotton seeds from 0.454 kilograms per day by hand to 23 kilograms per day by machine, thereby causing the United States’ cotton production to double every decade from 1800, reaching two-thirds of the global total by 1860. Although this patented technology facilitated the formation of the North Arican cotton textile supply chain and rescued the early U.S. economy, it also caused the Southern slave population to skyrocket from 700,000 in 1790 to 3.2 million in 1850, objectively strengthening the Arican slavery system.
It adopts a structural combination of a tallic hook-toothed drum and a sh sieve, with a crank to drive the rotation that separates cotton seeds from fiber. The tooth spacing is only 0.32 centiters, allowing precise handling of short-fiber upland cotton, increasing efficiency 50 tis over the traditional Indian Chukar hand cotton ginning.
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