Chapter 410 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Chapter 410 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

At the request of Britain, France and Russia, Arthur sold more than 300 old first-generation military aircraft in the aviation research laboratory to them, and sold them the complete first-generation military aircraft technology.

Although the technology was transferred, it was not a loss for Arthur. According to the current reserve of professional talents in aviation dynamics and aircraft manufacturing in Australasia, it is basically impossible for a single country to catch up with Australasia in terms of aircraft.

As early as a few years ago, Australasia had reserved nearly one-third of the world's relevant talents, and now there will be more and more.

Unless the remaining experts in Europe can unite, Australasia's advantage in aircraft cannot be made up in a short time.

Without Australia's interference and participation, it would take at least ten years for European countries to develop military aircraft at the level of Australasia's current fourth-generation aircraft.

And Australasia's aircraft can be updated at least twice in this decade. As the performance of the aircraft is better than the previous generation, the gap between Australasia and other countries in aircraft will only get bigger and bigger.

This is actually the benefit of talent reserves. Because Arthur understood this, he used the Victoria Prize to buy a large number of top talents from all over the world for himself and Australasia.

At present, Australasia has a very rich talent pool, and the top talent pool in some industries is not inferior to that of European powers.

According to rough statistics, by 1915, Australasia had recruited at least thousands of physics and chemistry experts from Europe, at least hundreds of internationally renowned experts, and countless experts in the industry.

Although the Royal Australasian Physical and Chemical Research Association uses at least 5 million Australian dollars in research funds each year, the results of these experts' research have made Australasia have made considerable progress in all aspects.

This also led to the Victoria Prize being held as usual in Europe, and the cruel European war did not affect the awarding of this award, which has been recognized as the highest award in the academic world.

Of course, it is not yet time for the Victoria Prize to be awarded in the new year. But Arthur's actions to win over talents will never stop at any time.

On July 1, 1915, Batty, director of the Royal Security Intelligence Service, reported to Arthur a piece of good news, that is, there are many talents in the new round of 200,000 Russian immigrants.

Although Russia is not as good as top powers such as Britain, France and Germany in scientific research, this does not mean that Russia lacks talents.

On the contrary, there are many talents in Russia, but a considerable number of them are not valued by the current Russian government.

If Russia has no talents, the Soviet Union will not quickly become a superpower on par with the United States in the future.

It took a while to investigate this group of 200,000 Russian immigrants, but compared with the report after the investigation, the time spent is nothing.

The talents in the new batch of Russian immigrants include talents in agriculture, industry, physics, chemistry, and even talents in aerodynamics, airships and aircraft manufacturing.

The most noteworthy name is undoubtedly Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who is well-known in Russia.

Arthur also knows about this famous name. In later generations, Tsiolkovsky was called the founder of modern astronautics and the father of aerospace.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was born in 1857 and is now 58 years old.

Tsiolkovsky was born in an ordinary peasant family in Ryazan Province, Russia. Because the family living environment was not good, and Tsiolkovsky caught a serious cold at the age of ten, which led to scarlet fever and almost completely lost his hearing. Therefore, he was sent to Moscow to study by his parents until he was 16 years old.

Speaking of this, we have to mention the European education during that period. Unlike the unified college entrance examination that is well known to people in later generations, most of the education in the West at this time was based on the application system. Universities conducted examinations based on their own admission conditions and enrolled the best.

Of course, Tsiolkovsky, who was educated at the age of 16, naturally could not enter the university to study. In order to learn more knowledge, Tsiolkovsky spent three years completely immersed in the library, taught himself analytic geometry, advanced algebra and calculus, understood physics, chemistry and mechanics, and was very fond of astronomy novels and magazines.

The 16-year-old boy who had never received any education taught himself advanced algebra and calculus. Tsiolkovsky's intelligence must be praised.

After returning from school, Tsiolkovsky passed the rural middle school exam and became a mathematics teacher in a small city middle school.

On the premise of teaching and educating people, Tsiolkovsky set up a laboratory by himself and began independent research while teaching.

During this period, Tsiolkovsky published dozens of papers. His papers were not only frequently sent to the Physical and Chemical Society of St. Petersburg, but also praised by the famous Russian scientist Mendeleev.

In the later stage of research, Tsiolkovsky shifted his interest to airships and proposed the idea of ​​an all-metal rigid airship.

This idea made the St. Petersburg government very happy and hired Tsiolkovsky as an airship expert.

In fact, before the outbreak of World War I, Tsiolkovsky had already lived a petty bourgeois life. As a Russian airship expert, he could get a salary of about 1,200 rubles a year, which was not much, but it was completely enough.

But the good times didn’t last long. After the outbreak of World War I, the airships built by Tsiolkovsky went to the battlefield and were soon destroyed by Germany and Austria-Hungary.

Although Russia also destroyed airships from Germany and Austria-Hungary, the news that a large amount of investment in airships failed made Russia quickly abandon the entire airship research room. As an airship expert, Tsiolkovsky also successfully became an unemployed vagrant and lost his golden rice bowl.

Although Tsiolkovsky could return to middle school as an ordinary teacher, the seeds of Tsiolkovsky’s space flight had already been planted when he was an airship expert. It was impossible for him to stop research at this time.

This is like taking off your pants halfway and the other party said that relatives came. Tsiolkovsky was so anxious that he scratched his head and finally chose to look for new research opportunities abroad under the persuasion of his family.

Australasia became Tsiolkovsky’s first target. There was no other reason. A friend of Tsiolkovsky was employed at a university in Australia. At the invitation of his friend, Tsiolkovsky decided to submit his resume to universities in Australia and seek an opportunity to become a professor at a university.

Tsiolkovsky had published many papers on rocket theory and space flight in scientific reports. It was these well-known papers that quickly attracted Director Batty's attention and reported to Arthur.

For an expert in rocket theory and space flight, Arthur was undoubtedly very welcome.

What's more, the other party came with his whole family. For such an expert with no background and who was dedicated to scientific research, Arthur could be said to be open to all.

In early July, Arthur met with Tsiolkovsky at Sydney Palace and had a pleasant long talk with Tsiolkovsky on rocket theory.

As Tsiolkovsky, who was praised by later generations as the founder of modern space travel and the father of aviation, his ability is unquestionable and many of his ideas are unconstrained.

It is these unique ideas that have laid a solid foundation for future space travel and aerospace.

Arthur was very satisfied with Tsiolkovsky's ideas and abilities, and immediately promised to give Tsiolkovsky the title of honorary professor of the Aviation College of the Royal Military Academy in Sydney, and to be listed in the Royal Physical and Chemical Research Association of Australia.

After all, Tsiolkovsky is already 58 years old, and Arthur's greatest hope is to recommend the foundation of space travel and aerospace in Australia, and to study rockets by the way.

The purpose of being listed in the Physical and Chemical Research Association is to allow Tsiolkovsky to obtain more research funds and use more advanced research laboratories.

As for the appointment to the Aviation College of the Royal Military Academy in Sydney, Arthur also hopes that Tsiolkovsky can train more talents for Australia and promote the development of space travel and aerospace industry in Australia in a more practical way.

This can also be regarded as a layout for the future, although it is impossible to develop rockets and realize space travel in a short period of time.

But at least it can lay a solid foundation for the future, and it can also be one step ahead of other countries in this regard.

After all, other countries were still busy with World War I at that time, and the simplest and most basic military aircraft was already the pinnacle of their current aviation.

Other countries were studying aircraft, while Australasia was studying rockets, which was already a huge lead.

Tsiolkovsky was also very satisfied with Arthur's arrangement. He came to Australasia just to find an opportunity to work, an opportunity to continue his theoretical research in rockets and space travel.

Unexpectedly, he was appreciated by Arthur as soon as he came to Australasia. He not only successfully entered the Royal Military Academy in Sydney, the top university in Australasia, but also entered the Royal Physical and Chemical Research Association of Australasia.

Of course, Arthur's rewards to Tsiolkovsky were not limited to these. A property in Sydney and the work of Tsiolkovsky's family were all solved by Arthur's words.

Arthur even promised that as long as Tsiolkovsky made good progress in theoretical research, the aviation laboratory would be handed over to Tsiolkovsky in the future, and he would truly invest in aviation research.

At present, the main business of the aviation laboratory is to research and manufacture aircraft. As the importance of aircraft increases, it is necessary to build an independent factory for aircraft research and manufacturing.

The aviation laboratory can just separate the aircraft and aviation aspects. The aircraft business will set up a new aircraft manufacturing plant, and the aviation laboratory will engage in aviation research.

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