Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 720 Trip to Switzerland
After using a [Appraisal (N)] card to find out what the previous parts were, Liang En quickly studied the information mentioned in the card.

Even Liang En, a professional archaeologist and cultural relic appraiser, couldn't know everything. Fortunately, it is now the information age, and it is much easier to search for information than in the past, so he quickly found information about this person on the Internet. All public information for .

Pierre Jaquet Droz was a master watchmaker from Switzerland in the 18th century. In addition to making watches, he often made some lifelike robots.

These robots were either given to kings and nobles as gifts, or exhibited in high society to help his company sell more clocks and robotic birds.

And in the 18s, Pierre and his sons created some of the world's oldest clockwork-driven robots.

They can write, draw, and play the piano.The three most famous of this batch of robots are called "Musician", "Drafter" and "Writer", all are wonderful machines that can perform a series of jobs through preset gear sets.

Among them, "Musician" is made of 2500 parts. It looks like a female image. It took nearly ten years to make and can play a piece of music up to 45 seconds on a special organ.

What's more interesting is that during the performance, the robot puppet's chest will rise and fall with the breath, and the eyes will shift with the fingers. She will bow and thank you after each performance.

The "draftist" is also driven by clockwork and gears, and is made of more than 1000 mechanical parts. The robot is about 46 centimeters tall and looks like a gentleman with silver-white hair, wearing a 15th-century-style fuchsia costume.

The entire robot took more than 2000 hours of work, and was jointly produced by 11 professional designers, sculptors, painters, carpenters, animators, micro-dynamic engineers, jewelry makers, wig makers, embroiderers and tailors.Finish.

After starting, it presses the left hand on the table, and gently waves the quill with the right hand. At the same time, the eyes and head will move with the drawing of the pattern, draw the figure on the moving drawing, and raise the left hand after the drawing.

As for the last "writer", there are more than 6000 parts inside, and the tiny parts are completely hidden in the robot body, and the robot's appearance is imitated by a little boy.

It is the cam technology that achieves a miracle. The cam’s follow-up infrastructure can make the robot boy’s arm make various movements according to different cams. This can not only control every pen-down of the boy, but also precisely control the force of pen-down.

In some ways, this piece is the most extraordinary production of cam technology.Theoretically, this robot can write all the words and punctuation marks, and the specific writing will be determined by the cam used to record information inside.

Therefore, this robot can be regarded as the earliest programmed computer in human history, and the content of the cam set in Liang En's hand is used to record a piece of information.

Although limited by the mechanical size, this robot can only write 40 letters at a time, but it is enough to store some information.

"That is to say, your thing is actually equivalent to a USB flash drive." After living for so long, Joan of Arc will use some more modern metaphors.

"It's just that how do we export the inside now? Are we going to the museum in Switzerland to ask them for help?"

Communication with museums, which is complicated for many people, is very simple for Liang En and the others. At least for scholars like Liang En, it is not difficult to get in touch with and use this robot.

"Going to Switzerland is definitely a must. After all, if we find the key, we will definitely open a door." Liang En nodded and said, "But before that, we have to fix this cam first."

Considering the reason for going to Switzerland later, Liang En and the others did not go home after leaving Cambodia, but went directly to Bern, the capital of Switzerland.

I chose this city not far from the east coast of Neuchâtel as my base because it is very close to the city of Neuchâtel where the robot museum is located, less than 30km away.

So when the time comes to fix this thing, they can bypass Lake Neuchâtel along the road and go straight to the target location, which can save a lot of time and energy.

"I really admire that group of veteran nobles, who can actually own real estate all over the world." Seeing the luxurious decoration inside this 19th-century-style building, Joan of Arc said subconsciously.

The room Liang En and the others lived in was located in the top residential area in Bern. It was temporarily lent to Liang En and the others by a member of the Golden Dawn, not asking for a penny.

The reason why the other party took the initiative to lend this house was that they hoped that Liang En and the others could film more pictures of this house in the next video.

"You're right, those veteran nobles do own a lot of real estate all over the world." Liang En nodded and said, "But their financial situation may not be as good as we imagined."

For example, this time the other party asked Liang En and the others to shoot the video to promote themselves, and then sell it for a good price later.

Unlike Liang En and the others who had plenty of liquidity in their hands, many nobles were very tight on funds, especially liquidity, so sometimes they had to sell some properties to make up for the lack of funds.

When selling, these people immediately choose acquaintances as targets, because it looks better on the face.

It's a pity that the market for acquaintances is so big. In most cases, they can't find acquaintances, so they can only be sold in the society. After this step, they will naturally pay more attention to the price.

The price of a piece of real estate mainly comes from their location and the condition of the room itself. Of course, whether it is famous or not is also an important factor, which is why the request was made to Liang En.

After all, Liang En is a scholar, and he is also a very high-level scholar, so if he shoots a video here, it is commensurate with the level of this real estate and can also increase the price of real estate.

And the reason why he got this room is because this room is far away from Mr. Du Lisi's jewelry store, so he can easily borrow the equipment from the jewelry store for the restoration of this thing.

Liang En's restoration plan is a brand-new restoration plan. He carefully removed 718 pieces of iron pieces from the iron rod in order, and then used 3D scanning equipment to scan all these parts.

Then he built a 3D model of this thing on the computer, and then used a simple system he made before to fill in the parts that were lost due to wear and corrosion.

For these mechanical parts, it is difficult to remove the added parts, but it is even more difficult to replace the missing parts.

So considering the need to use this system to unlock a secret, Liang En decided to re-create a cam system, so that it can be used normally without worrying about problems with the already fragile cam system.

After all the work was done, Liang En recreated the entire cam system using copper sheets and copper rods according to the data displayed by the computer, and then reassembled them in the original order.

(End of this chapter)