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The experiment conducted by Ampere was quite successful. It turns out that he used wires with a much smaller cross-section to achieve a smaller loss than those that came out of the same arm. Just this one progress can save a lot of precious copper. In addition, although in this experiment by Ampere, the high voltage achieved by the transformer in the substation is completely incomparable with the UHV of a certain oriental country in later generations, and it has not even developed to the point where the loss caused by inductive reactance must be considered. The achieved voltage has only just reached 10 kilovolts (equivalent to 10 kilovolts in another time and space), which is barely able to achieve relatively long-distance power transmission, making it possible to use a larger power plant to solve the problem of a larger city. The power supply has become possible. As for the establishment of a nationwide power grid, Joseph feels that he should not see it.

If time goes back a few years, it is estimated that the experiment hosted by Ampere can only be called "the final equipment debugging", but in the past few years, Joseph has achieved enough achievements in science, especially in the discovery of electromagnetic waves. , and after deriving the relevant formula, he can already ensure that he will be hated by the students from middle school to university in later generations-now he no longer needs to gain reputation in this area. Instead, Joseph is now more willing to swipe his moral reputation. By the way, get yourself a lot of awesome disciples and grandchildren.

When the time comes, disciples and grandchildren will be all over the world, and who dares to say that Joseph is wrong, a large group of disciples and grandchildren of Joseph, and even the entire European scientific community will attack together—isn’t it fun to think about it? This is like the "masters" of a certain oriental country in later generations. When it comes to academic creation, most of them are actually quite limited, and more of them are knowledge peddlers who spread the European style, but because there are many disciples and grandchildren, they are all praised. God. Those who don’t understand really think that they are masters of the same level as Russell, Sartre, and Heidegger of the same age.

Based on such considerations, unless it is a very, very, very historical discovery, such as an epoch-making thing like Maxwell's equations, otherwise, other discoveries and honors, Joseph is more willing to give up to his apprentices. In many cases, these discoveries should have belonged to these people in the original history, but now, when they made these discoveries, they were all very grateful to Joseph. Because they all feel that they have made these achievements under the inspiration and guidance of Joseph.

Many people even feel that if they are given another mentor, these discoveries may become their mentor. Only a person as high-spirited as Joseph, who doesn't care about fame and wealth, can say indifferently: "I have discovered enough that the Academy of Sciences has to worry about how to name some physical quantities. Moreover, I heard that no matter whether it is In middle school and university, there are students who hide in the corner of the classroom and scold me when they can’t solve the math problem. This is not a good thing, I think it’s better for you to share more of such things!” You see, what a nice man he is. It is simply a model of scientist morality!

Therefore, when Ampere informed Joseph of the successful results of the experiment through a wired telegram. Joseph immediately sent back a telegram to Ampere:

"Hurry up and get the paper out, show it to me, and then publish it in "Nature", and then prepare to enter the Academy of Sciences." Well, the word count is a bit too much, but the telegraph system is a military-industrial complex, and it is used by oneself, and there is no need to follow the alphabet Calculate money.

After receiving the telegram, Ampere was moved to tears. As for his tutor, he is thinking: "Well, this year's quota is full again, haha, and Napoleon's fame-seeking guy can be squeezed into next year! Hmph, want to enter the Academy of Sciences? Let me calculate how much I have left." A student is coming..."

As for Napoleon, of course he didn't know that his brother was planning to make him queue up to die, but he had also thought of a way to bypass Joseph's defense. Napoleon decided to create an Academy of Social Sciences in addition to the Academy of Sciences, and then... "I also want to have a dean!"

After the test was successful, Joseph immediately called Napoleon and Lucien over, and he told Napoleon that the spectacle of the "City That Never Sleeps" could be fully advanced. Of course, the power plant must be expanded first, and the production capacity of electric lamps must be gradually increased. But advertising can already be done first, and these things need to mobilize private funds to participate.

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Caderousse walked into a new store opened by Bonaparte General Electric, which was located in an inconspicuous corner on the east side of Montmartre. It is a three-story building, the lower two floors are shop and display area, and the top floor is specially prepared for big customers.

With Caderousse's identity and purpose, he can go directly to the third floor. However, he still prefers to turn up slowly from the first floor, looking at various samples and sorting out his thoughts at the same time.

The main exhibits on the first floor are lamps and other small electrical appliances for ordinary people and general applications. For example, the cheapest 25-watt carbon fiber glass lamp costs one franc each. According to General Electric's sales staff, under normal use, it can work continuously for more than 500 hours. Compared to its price, this kind of performance is already very satisfactory.

However, as a person who is used to doing business, Caderousse can hear the tone in it as soon as he hears it. The first is the word "normal use", which hides the meaning that if it breaks in less than 500 hours, it is probably because you have not used it normally.

As for the latter "working continuously for more than 500 hours", it is even more interesting, because no one's home lights will really "work continuously for more than 500 hours". So as long as the light is turned off in the middle, it is not "continuous use", and if it does not light up to 500 hours, it is not a problem of product quality.

According to the standards of later generations, the 25-watt incandescent lamp is actually far from bright enough. But in this era, compared with the candles and whale oil lamps that everyone is used to, this thing is really very bright. Of course, as long as you can afford the electricity bill, there is no brightest, only brighter.

Compared with the energy-saving lamps and LEDs of later generations, the luminous efficiency of incandescent lamps is extremely low, so under the same power, it is much darker, but it is easy to brighten, just use the power to make up. So next to the 25-watt lamp, there are 50-watt and 100-watt lamps. Of course, these are still commonly used, so the price is still normal. For example, even if it is 100-watt, the price is only 10 francs.

But among the high-end lamps on the second floor, Caderousse saw the lamps disguised as stones that illuminated the entire Moulin Rouge when it opened. This is a 1,000-watt lamp, and the price jumps directly to a thousand francs. It is said that with a spotlight shade like the Moulin Rouge, a shell and a small fan for heat dissipation, the whole lamp will cost 2,000 francs. The life of the bulb is still "under normal use, continuous work for more than 500 hours".

Caderousse calculated that if he also put two lamps outside his nightclub, among other things, just changing the bulbs would cost two thousand francs a month. So after thinking about it, Caderousse crossed this idea in his heart.

In addition to high-power bulbs, there is another kind of bulb that is also very expensive. That is the crystal bulb. According to the salesman, this kind of bulb is different from the bulbs blown out of glass on the second floor. It is a polyhedron carved out of a single piece of crystal, and the filament used is not a low-end product like carbon filament. , but a high-end and high-grade platinum wire. Therefore, both the light and the service life have been greatly improved. For example, the same 25-watt light bulb, the one below, can only work continuously for more than 500 hours under normal use, but it has been replaced. This, um, conservatively speaking, under normal use, it can work continuously for more than a thousand hours.

As for the price, um, it's really like the difference between Lafite wine and factory wine. This kind of wine costs two hundred francs a glass. Caderousse then crossed it again in his own mind.

The salesman obviously saw that Caderousse was not satisfied with the price, and he said to him again:

"Sir, in fact, we also have a lamp that looks very similar to this, but is much cheaper."

"Oh, can you show me?" said Caderousse.

The salesman took out a light bulb from the counter that looked very similar to the polyhedral crystal light bulb.

"Sir, look at this, I won't lie to you, the shell of this is glass, well, there is still a difference in transparency and fine crystal, but not much. And it is not a direct light bulb, but a shell, you can Put it over another light bulb and hang it higher, and who's going to see it?"

"This cover is not big enough to cover a light bulb?" Caderousse asked.

"Sir, we have a special kind of smaller light bulb that can be put in." The salesman then fished out several very small light bulbs from the counter, "This is also a twenty-five-watt carbon filament light bulb. Under normal use, it can also work continuously for more than five hundred hours. But you know, it's not easy to make things small, so it's a bit more expensive, 3 francs each. And if you put it in a glass If it is used inside the cover, it will be more difficult to dissipate heat, and the service life will also be reduced. But it is no problem to use it for two to three hundred hours."

Seeing that Caderousse was a little moved, the salesman recommended to him the "big crystal chandelier" made from this "crystal lamp". Caderousse calculated in his mind that the price offered by Bonaparte General Electric seemed to be much higher than the price he had put together, but it was still within his acceptable range. And this thing needs to be connected with wires, which is a technical job. Now except for Bonaparte General Electric, he can't find other craftsmen who can do this kind of work. So he really had no other choice.

After looking at the various electric lights, Caderousse went up to the third floor.