Chapter 251: All American Talents Are Within Our Grasp
1850 American Gold Tycoon Chapter 251: American Talents Are All in My Hands (Three Updates)
The demonstration was just a minor incident for Liang Yao, and he didn't take it seriously at all.
It was just a small group of factory owners who didn't want to pay the fines. It didn't cause much trouble, and it wasn't a strike by California workers.
Liang Yao continued to exchange experiences with a group of mechanics, engineers and inventors in Tingtao Garden.
The high-end talents recruited from the east have arrived in San Francisco one after another. Some of the inventors have brought their own inventions here to seek Liang Yao's investment.
Liang Yao now has a high reputation in the invention community, not only because he took out 1 million US dollars to establish the Liang Yao Invention Award, but also because inventors in the American invention community recognize Liang Yao's invention ability.
Considering Liang Yao as an inventor has greatly shortened the distance between Liang Yao and these inventors.
The new things invented by these inventors will incubate many emerging industries in California. Liang Yao attaches great importance to the arrival of these inventors.
Pinkerton was very professional, and the California Intelligence Agency won the first battle.
The Intelligence Agency easily obtained evidence from the organizers and small leaders of the demonstrations that the factory owners maliciously organized and instigated the demonstrations.
Faced with the overwhelming evidence and the pressure from the bank to cut off loans, the disobedient factory owners quickly surrendered.
They paid the double fine honestly.
The factory owners who did not make trouble were very fortunate. Seeing the factory owners who made trouble paid the double fine, they felt very happy and were very glad that they made a wise choice and saved a lot of money.
Of course, the happiest one was the Ministry of Finance. The $2.5 million fine collected this time made the California Treasury's treasury suddenly full.
When the Minister of Finance Deng Wenyu saw the fines collected, he couldn't stop laughing.
Facing the education subsidy requested by the Minister of Education, Pearlman, he waved his hand very happily and approved the budget of the Ministry of Education.
Pearlman also left the Ministry of Education with satisfaction.
At this time, Liang Yao's Tingtao Garden has become an industrial exhibition venue.
Liang Yao held an inventor salon in Tingtao Garden.
There are all kinds of machinery and industrial equipment in the garden. These machines and equipment, especially machine tools, represent the top level of American industry in the mid-19th century.
The mid-19th century was the golden age of American talents.
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American machine tools are very advanced in the world, and are not much inferior to those in the UK.
British factories have a large number of machines left over from the first industrial revolution. By the mid-19th century, these old machines had become a burden.
But it costs a lot of pounds to replace factory equipment. Therefore, many British factory owners and capitalists are reluctant to pay for replacement even though they know that the equipment in their factories is outdated, and continue to make do with it.
Anyway, Britain has no shortage of markets, and the products produced can always be dumped in colonies.
America does not have such a burden, and of course does not have as many colonial markets as Britain, so various processing tools and milling machines have sprung up like mushrooms after rain.
Liang Yao stood in front of a copy engraving machine, or more precisely, a copy engraving machine for engraving gun stocks.
Seeing this copy engraving machine reminded Liang Yao of the machines used to engrave keys on the street in later generations.
The principles of the two are the same, but the copy engraving machines of this era are rougher and larger in size.
Driven by the steam engine, the engraving machine started slowly. As the engraving machine ran, a log was slowly shaped under the engraving of the engraving machine, and gradually took the shape of a gun stock.
After a while, the gun stock was formed, and Walter took sandpaper to polish the gun stock slightly. After removing the burrs on the gun stock, he compared it with the gun stock he made by hand.
The two gun stocks were almost the same, and Walter couldn't help but admire it.
When Walter was making the Walter M1852 prototype, he made the buttstock by himself, although his woodworking skills were good enough to rival those of an old carpenter.
But it takes at least half a day to make a qualified buttstock, and the efficiency is definitely not as good as that of a machine.
"Mr. Blanchard, your engraving machine is amazing! It is at least 100 times more efficient than manual work!"
Brand just laughed and said, "This machine is a tool machine that I made when I was improving equipment for the Springfield Armory more than ten years ago. Of course, some improvements have been made now, and the efficiency has increased a lot.
At that time, the Springfield Armory was too slow in making buttstocks, and it was impossible to complete the order in time. Since using my machine, the Springfield Armory no longer has to worry about not being able to complete the order."
As he spoke, Blanchard promoted his machine to Liang Yao.
"Mr. Liang, I heard that you have opened an arsenal in Sacramento. I think my machine will be useful in your arsenal. What do you think? Buy it! You can buy it for only $20,000!"
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"I will spend $50,000. I will not only buy it, but also its patent. Do you have the drawings?" Liang Yao asked.
Blanchard didn't expect Liang Yao's appetite to be so big, and then the lion said: "I brought it with me. If I bring the patent, US$50,000 is not enough, at least US$100,000 is needed."
"A maximum of 70,000 US dollars. Apart from me, I'm afraid no arsenal in the United States will buy your machine together with the patent, otherwise you wouldn't have brought the machine all the way to California." Liang Yao began to counteroffer.
For impoverished inventors like Walter and inventors like Nobel who have not yet become famous, Liang Yao can find ways to deceive them for his own use.
But an inventor like Blanchard, who has a successful career and is already famous, will not be willing to succumb to others.
When the Springfield Arsenal wanted to hire Blanchard, Blanchard rejected it. In the end, he only accepted the Springfield Arsenal's invitation and agreed to design improved machines for the arsenal.
But it would be a good choice to cooperate.
"make a deal!"
Blanchard looked like he was at a disadvantage and gritted his teeth and agreed.
After the deal was concluded, Blanchard sold a barrel drilling machine and rifling machine to Liang Yao, preparing to provide Liang Yao with a full set of services.
"Mr. Liang, take a look at my barrel drilling machine and rifling machine."
After Liang Yao looked at Blanchard's barrel drilling machine and rifling machine, he shook his head repeatedly.
He just said to a young man on the side: "Howe, show Mr. Blanchard our barrel drilling machine and rifling machine."
Speaking of young people, Frederick Webster Howe, who just turned 30 this year, is 9 years older than Liang Yao.
Although Howe is still very young, he has already made considerable achievements. In his early 20s, he invented the profiling machine, the deep hole drill and the rifling machine.
Later scholars believed that Howe's invention of the profiling machine was the beginning of the American machinery manufacturing industry catching up with Britain.
Howe showed Blanchard its barrel boring and rifling machines, two machines that Howe had designed and built while serving as superintendent of the Robbins-Lawrence factory.
The Robbins-Lawrence factory was a factory in the United States that specialized in the design and production of machine tools. However, the Robbins-Lawrence factory no longer exists.
After the Robbins-Lawrence factory was acquired by the American Group, it merged with several other acquired machinery companies, including the Bridgeport Machinery Company, which manufactured sewing machines, to form a large machinery company: General Machinery Company.
Hao Ze served as the technical director and vice president of the new General Machinery Company. Along with the factory's equipment and original team, he came to California with Liang Yao's fleet.
General Machinery Company is now also a company that Liang Yao focuses on cultivating.
After seeing Howe demonstrate the barrel boring machine and rifler machine in action, Blanchard was humbled.
"Your barrel drilling machine and rifling machine are indeed better than mine, but why have I never heard of such a good machine before?"
"This is the latest machine. The Robbins-Lawrence factory only manufactured the first prototype barrel drilling machine and the first rifling machine in February 1851, which were sent to the Crystal Palace in London for the first World's Fair.
These two days are machines that have been improved after the Robbins-Lawrence factory was acquired by America Group. It is the only one in the United States. Of course you have never seen it. "Howe explained to Blanchard very humbly.
Blanchard stared at Hao for a long time, looking at Hao's young face, and couldn't help but sigh: "Young people are awesome. Now that you have Mr. Liang's help, your future will be limitless. You will definitely be better than an old man like me."
"Senior will always be my senior, and he was my idol when I was a child. It is my honor to see you in person in California today," Hao said very modestly.
“Improvements in barrel drilling and rifling machines are not the work of me alone, but the work of the entire R&D team at General Machinery, especially my two new apprentices, Platt and Whitney, whose abilities He is no worse than a master like me and has provided many constructive suggestions for improving machine tools.”
Blanchard patted Hao on the shoulder with great appreciation, said a few words of encouragement to Hao, and then said to Liang Yao: "Mr. Liang, you are really full of talents, Pratt and Whitney. Where are the young men? I want to see these two young men."
Liang Yao was noncommittal and looked at the inventors, engineers, and mechanics who were chatting and exchanging in the manor. He really had the feeling that all American talents were at his disposal.
Although he spent a lot of money to recruit many of these talents from various companies, he felt that the money was well spent.
Liang Yao waved to the young man who was playing with the milling machine in front of him and shouted: "Pratt, Whitney, Mr. Blanchard wants to meet you. uuReading"
Pratt and Whitney, who were inseparable, heard this and walked over together to say hello to Blanchard.
Platt and Whitney were hired by Liang Yao from Colt.
As for why Colt was not bought directly, the reason is also very simple.
First, Samuel Colt himself did not sell, and second, Colt was no longer a small company at this time.
Colt's Hartford, Connecticut, factory alone has 1,500 employees and provides 1,500 local jobs.
Colt is a company that the Connecticut government pays special attention to. After learning that Liang Yao had acquired the factory, the Connecticut government also lobbied Colt to block the acquisition.
A similar situation was encountered during the acquisition of the Robbins-Lawrence plant in Vermont.
In order to successfully acquire the Robbins-Lawrence factory, Liang Yao finally came up with a solution to transfer part of the production capacity of the Boston Butterfly Sewing Machine Factory to Vermont, open a branch in Vermont, provide local jobs and contribute tax revenue.
The Vermont government did not oppose the acquisition.
In this era, local trade protectionism prevailed in the United States, and politicians in various states were very shrewd.
But it was all worth it.
Many people may be unfamiliar with the names of Pratt and Whitney, but when it comes to the name of Pratt & Whitney, everyone will be familiar with it.
This company was founded by Pratt and Whitney in 1865.
After the company was reorganized into a group company in 1925, the aircraft engines produced by the Pratt & Whitney Group Company became famous all over the world.
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