Harry Potter Morning Light.

Chapter 2015 The Thickness of the Crucible ([-])
The convoy set off at [-]:[-] in the morning, and the next stop was Le Treport. This time, there would be no longer a long pause in the middle. After Le Treport, they would turn around and head east to Abbeville. Amiens is not far away.

There is an ancient battlefield during the Hundred Years War between Britain and France. It is still the same as the Battle of Agincourt. The British longbowmen won the French heavy cavalry with fewer victories. The difference is that the British Edward III and Philip VI participated in the battle.

According to Napoleon's usual habits, he will probably go to the ancient battlefield again.There was also a carpet factory there, but it's hard to say how much of his mind was devoted to making blankets.

The premise of trade is peace. The Seven Years War not only cut off Spain's alkali supply, but also implicated other industries...

"Madame Severl!"

Just as Georgiana's carriage was about to start, someone shouted from the window.

She peeped out and saw that it was Mr. Stanley, the broker, who had introduced the thresher to George Washington, and later to Georgiana.

"What can you do?" Georgiana asked.

"May I share the carriage with you?" said Stanley.

Georgiana wanted to say no.

But she thought maybe Stanley knew something, so she let him into the car.

"Thank you." Stanley said politely, and then got into Georgiana's carriage. The French cavalry looked at him very strangely.

Georgiana shook her head. She only thought that she might be able to get the information, and she forgot that others would suspect that Stanley got the information from her. However, at this time, the people came up and the car started.

"I remember you riding a horse," said Georgiana deliberately in French.

"This road is killing me." Stanley said, beating his waist, "Why don't we build more canals?"

Georgiana had nothing to say.

It is not so easy to build a canal on the mainland.

"Have you ever been to Birmingham?" asked Georgiana.

"Birmingham? Of course." Stanley said immediately, "I also watched the sunrise on the nearby mountains."

Georgiana recalled British geography. Birmingham seemed to be located in the Central Peak District and was part of the National Park.

"It's no wonder people from the Moonlight Society like to study rocks." Georgiana said with a smile, "It turns out that they live by the side of the mountain."

Stanley looked at her confused.

"Have you any acquaintance in Birmingham?" asked Georgiana.

"I know some people. Mr. Bolton is a warm and generous man. He often invites guests to visit his factory..."

Stanley immediately spoke of his time at Soho, as if the broker felt he had business to do again.

Watt's character is a bit like Newt Scamander. Newt found a vacant room at Hogwarts to raise his magical animals, while Watt used the workshop as his "sanctuary."Watt's father was a solid man, a builder, boat builder, carpenter, and cabinetmaker, and also owned several boats. The exploration fever of the 16th century promoted the development of navigation and mathematics, and the astrolabe, quadrant and compass were all improved, while the crafts of watchmakers were also improved.

Wealthy aristocrats and collectors demanded the orrery and armillary sphere, which he made beautifully. They didn't actually use it, but kept it in their homes. These instruments were usually made of brass and silver. Watt knew the actual use of all the instruments, and he His grandfather, once a lord of Aberdeenshire, is described in the genealogy as "The Navigator", while his uncle John was a mathematician, astronomy and surveyor.

When he was young, Watt was doted on by his mother, because she had lost three children before, and Watt's health was not good. He was in great pain when he went to school. Later, his father gave him a workbench, where he made many models. Soon he showed his talent in this area.

However, at the age of 17, he encountered a heavy blow. His father's ship sank, his mother passed away, and the coastal city of Glasgow where he lived was ruled by a "tobacco tycoon", so he took his tools and clothes to the city in the second year. Studying at the University of Glasgow.

The style of study at the University of Glasgow is low-key, pragmatic, and progressive. It cultivates a combination of businessmen, gentlemen and scholars. The young, sick and melancholy Watt’s boarding life here was not pleasant. Later, his natural philosophy professor Robert Dick discovered His hands-on ability invited Watt to help him make some new astronomy teaching instruments.

At this moment, there is no one in the University of Glasgow who can teach him how to make instruments. After getting to know him for a while, Professor Dick suggested that Watt go to London to study. If Watt’s father agrees, the professor can provide Watt with an introductory education.

Talent varies from person to person, and so-called disciples are sometimes like a teacher's child, but Albus probably never regarded Severus as his "son" to be proud of.

Later, Watt went to London with the help of Professor Dick. He took a letter of introduction to a Scottish instrument manufacturer in London.Unlike Birmingham, London has a strict guild system, and Watt did not receive formal apprenticeship training. According to the regulations of the Watch Guild, they cannot accept any non-Londoners who are not free men or apprentices of the Watch Guild.

This rule is quite unfair, which is why people are eager to break it.

Reading and studying are not just schools. Georgiana remembers the appraiser named Goncey. He dropped out of school when he was in the third grade in Bray Barton. His father later sent him to study at a scholar's home.

Watt did not return to Scotland immediately after experiencing the rejection, but was apprenticed at the home of a master craftsman and mathematician named Morgan. The king of Spain made a telescope.

Morgan accepted Watt, but the conditions were very harsh. Not only would Watt not receive any remuneration, but he would also pay 20 guineas for tuition and promise to serve him completely.Watt complied with his request because he thought it was worth it, and he did what would normally take four years to complete in one year.

Later, when the Seven Years War broke out, Watt was studying in a big city while restless. He did not have any official guild status, and he was likely to be captured as a navy, or sent to a plantation in the West Indies by the East India Company.

As for the legendary story that Watt saw the kettle lid jumping when he saw the kettle boiling, Stanley didn’t know exactly how, but Watt met Blake and Robinson during his apprenticeship and became close friends. Blake was the son of a Bordeaux wine merchant, and he liked it very much. Make friends, and at the same time love to do some gas experiments, such as mixing acid into chalk and soda to observe the bubbles produced.

It was they who broadened Watt's horizons, and under their influence Watt began to learn German and Italian by himself.

At that time, their alumni, or Adam Smith, had already become famous as a lecturer in Glasgow. There were always a few particularly active, popular, and gifted student associations in every school. Blake started Cullen's at a very young age. Research and teach whiskey distillers how to cut costs.

The war made life difficult for many people, and many merchants were unable to export. At this time, merchants in Birmingham came up with a solution-dig canals.

Building land roads is actually profitable, but not as lucrative as canals. The desire for profit is pursued by all entrepreneurs, landowners, and engineers. Dreamers like Darwin and industrialists like Bolton and Wedgwood are becoming more and more The more attention turned to inland waterways, the British canal project was eventually built by private companies rather than national planning, and this was the beginning of the "competition" between the Liverpool Canal Company and the railway company.

People believed everything the newspapers said, and so obstructed the railway company's surveys, that the railway company hired boxers to protect the surveyors.

Bolton, on the other hand, was a completely different person from Watt. He was as persuasive as Wedgwood. Wedgwood successfully persuaded the Duke of Bridgewater himself to support the excavation of the canal.By using the canal, the Baltic merchants could save fifteen shillings for every ton of iron and flax they imported, and it was because of the duke's connection with the government that they obtained the king's approval, and when persuading the salt merchants in Cheshire he used the canal's Tolls are compared with those of the Weaver River.

A woman's dowry is her reliance, but Bolton asked his two wives to use their dowry to support his career. He can design toys and make carriages. When Wedgwood went to lobby, he took a car with "springs" It is Darwin's design, which means that no matter what bumps you encounter on the road, it will not hinder the progress of the carriage, and the rider will not feel bumps. Boulton designed a paper cover for the carriage to make it practical. based on more beautiful.

The Soho factory in Bolton is not a traditional factory, you have to think of it as a theater, so it needs lighting.

He can make every participant feel that he is enjoying himself, and he gives the steam engine a sense of artistry and romance.If "metaphysical" is the adjective, it's the passion that Bolton can conjure up that Pellier was talking about.

There were very few women he could not handle. His second wife was the sister of his first wife. This marriage was considered incest at the time, but he would ensure that the factory was clean, bright, and ventilated, and refused to hire child labor because He is a businessman who makes toys and brings joy to children.

When Bolton bought the present Soho site for £1761 in 1000, it was nothing more than a scrubby heath, full of heather and gorse, with only rabbit ears and the old owner's hut.

While many would be discouraged by the sight, Bolton romanticized his venture as creating wealth in the desert.

"Fortunately, he is old." Stanley said gloatingly, "Oh, by the way, your carriage can also be equipped with that kind of spring."

Georgiana did not answer him.

Because wizards are also due to resistance to Muggle science, even if they were ahead at the beginning, they are now behind them in some areas.

however……

She sighed, what should I do?

She's completely clueless.

(End of this chapter)