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When the Rockefeller Refinery was established, Doug also formed a research and development team for internal combustion engines.

The external combustion engine relies on the thermal expansion and contraction of the gas to complete the reciprocating movement of the piston.

The internal combustion engine relies on high-temperature and high-pressure oil-liquid gas combustion, and then uses a crank structure to complete the reciprocating of the piston.

The principles of the two have similarities, and the structure also has similarities.

However, the latter is several times more difficult than the former.

What Doug originally wanted to develop internal combustion engines during the construction of the refinery.

After the refinery is completed, it can provide a brand new purpose for the refinery's products.

However, despite its ideal principles, it still fails repeatedly.

The initial failure was thought to be a problem with oil products.

Unlike external combustion engines, internal combustion engines are more delicate. Because combustion occurs inside the machine, only a few oil products that only use relatively pure.

Diesel and gasoline are both alternatives.

The external combustion engine can do work, whether it is vegetable oil, lard, kerosene, or even wood burning.

After all, external gas engines rely not on how explosive these fuels are, but on the hot air they provide.

However, after using laboratory methods to purify gasoline and diesel, it still failed.

The reason for this failure is to search for the tolerances of each component.

In fact, any part in this world will have errors when it is made.

This error can become lower and lower with the development of technology, but it will never disappear.

For example, relatively early in the past, the Mayans on the earth wanted to burn paper and a pottery jar every week, but the error was huge.

This is because the maker has not yet realized the importance of measuring instruments.

But if you make another ruler, will the accuracy become very high?

No.

Just improve, not get very high.

Even if it is made entirely according to the scale of the ruler.

However, there are errors in the markings on the ruler when they are drawn.

Even when all the rulers are made based on a standard ruler.

What if that standard prototype ruler itself has a problem?

After this, the ruler will be able to innovate.

First of all, the material of the ruler should be ensured that at different temperatures and humidity, try not to cause too much deformation.

Secondly, more accurate rulers like vernier calipers have gradually developed.

At present, Doug's internal combustion engine team is in such a stage.

However, although they can skillfully use vernier calipers.

However, they cannot let their creations strictly follow the size of the ruler.

Whether it is casting or forging, at the current technological level, it is difficult for them to control the final finished product.

Doug asked them to introduce mathematical tools. Although it was helpful, the help was not very strong.

Because, in a sense, mathematical tools also need to know the basic data.

The more data you know, the more accurate the calculation will be.

However, whether it is forging or casting, both methods involve one problem, namely, materials.

Materials science has always been a very troublesome subject.

Because, to a certain extent, what it eats is more about experience and what it eats is about accumulation.

Only accumulation is enough, only experience is enough.

Only then will you know what kind of materials, what suitable for making, and what process is suitable for using.

Because materials science faces things like alloys.

Alloys account for different proportions in various components.

The same components have different temperatures.

The same components are the same temperature, but the treatment method is different.

There will be big differences.

This difference is reflected in extreme tests the accuracy of measurement.

It is necessary to measure data in three dimensions and then conduct statistical analysis of these data.

This has already involved the basic discipline level.

Moreover, such basic disciplines are not very complete. Just like a blind man touching an elephant, he touches the legs of an elephant, but it may not be applicable to the nose of an elephant.

Therefore, we can only rely on continuous experimentation, little by little. Just like a stupid person who wants to move away two mountains with his own hands.

And such basic disciplines have also been separated from practical applications.

It is difficult for capitalists to invest in things like this that will not see returns in the short term.

However, Doug, who is a capitalist at this moment, has to invest in such a basic discipline.

Because without investing, there is no way to solve the problems encountered by internal combustion engines now.

Of course, even if you don’t study the materials and follow the principle of making do with it, and slowly getting it done again and again, you can finally create a usable internal combustion engine.

However, being able to use is just the beginning.

Because being able to use does not mean long-term use, does not mean low failure rate.

Doug started investing in materials science while asking them to continue to use similar materials to carry out similar research and development.

They have been developing for a long time, and have failed again and again.

After experiencing the lessons of blood and tears, Doug burned a lot of money.

They finally created a usable internal combustion engine.

However, you wouldn't think of what the material of this internal combustion engine is.

It's not iron, nor steel.

But it is a copper alloy.

One of the major advantages of copper alloys is its plasticity.

Compared to steel and iron, it is neither so hard nor so brittle.

Therefore, when Doug requires an internal combustion engine that can operate, they can manually polish each component, make subtle adjustments to these components, and finally achieve smooth operation.

However, such a thing that condenses countless labor and intelligence cannot be mass-produced.

Unlike the so-called "handmade" that was already relatively advanced in industrial development, I guess such a thing will be felt a little bit about its cost when used by the British royal family.

Of course, Doug was also very sad about this at this moment.

However, he has made the decision to develop internal combustion engines.

It is impossible to give up now, because once you give up, the cost of silence will be too high.

Of course, theoretically speaking, every failure is a prelude to future success.

However, Doug cannot do it, and uses his own failure to lay the foundation for other people's success.

Of course, he is already thinking about it now.

I'm not so strict in chasing the progress.

Because, there are some things that cannot be anxious.

However, at the same time, in order to serve the materials researchers who manufacture internal combustion engines, they accidentally created another thing - a battery.

Batteries were not invented by humans, because they were found in nature.

Of course, a special battery is an invention of human beings.

At first, the scientific researcher didn't want to do batteries.

However, when he used the solution and corroded different metals at the same time, he suddenly electricityed himself.

This abnormal discharge attracted his attention.

After careful research, he found that putting two different metal sheets in solution and connecting them through wires will generate electric current.
To be continued...