Hogwarts Gymnastics Professor

Chapter 134 The Industrial Revolution
The fusion of magic and technology is gradually showing its magical effect.

Finding scientists to study the essence of magic and magic power is a way to fundamentally solve the mysteries of magic, and directly integrate existing technology and magic, regardless of the principle, only pay attention to the application, maybe it is the fusion of the magic world and the Muggle world A new way to get up.

Lockhart learned a lot from Lupine's company selling potion-infused perfumes and men's health supplements in blood-boosting capsules.

Ever since, various ideas for combining magic and science have come up, but except for potions and herbs, which do not require magic from wizards, the combination of magic and Muggle science in other aspects is not very effective.

There are not many things that can store magic power in the wizarding world. Most products obtained by combining magic and technology can only be used when wizards input magic power.

But there is still a way to do this, and that is magic literature.

Magic literature may be the most profound subject in the wizarding world, but its principle is not difficult. It is nothing more than memorization. Remembering the meaning of each ancient magic text, and then repeating it according to certain standards can achieve the corresponding effect.

Standardization means that it can be replaced by machines, can be mass-produced, and can be mass-produced with assembly lines.

There are applications in the wizarding world in this regard. For example, the wizarding world has always had knight buses, Hogwarts express trains, and magic radios. They are all products of the combination of magic and technology, and they don’t need any external electricity or oil and other energy sources at all. .

This is the power of the ancient runes. If the ancient runes are deciphered, it means that wizards have inexhaustible clean energy.

As we all know, there have been three industrial revolutions in human history.

The first occurred in the 18s-the mid-60th century. The representative product of this industrial revolution was Watt's improved steam engine.

In England a new source of power was urgently needed for pumping water from the mines and turning the wheels of new machinery.The result was a series of inventions and improvements until at last a steam engine suitable for mass production was developed.

The invention and subsequent transformation of the steam engine represented that mankind had finally officially entered the industrial age. It provided means to manage and utilize heat energy and provide driving force for machinery.

Thus, it ended man's age-old dependence on animal, wind, and water power.

The emergence of the steam engine allowed the establishment of large-scale factories that could not have existed in batches, and people used the steam engine to mine and smelt iron.

由于这种种发展的结果，英国到1800年时生产的煤和铁比世界其余地区合在一起生产的还多。更明确地说，英国的煤产量从1770年的600万吨上升到1800年的1200万吨，进而上升到1861年的5700万吨。

Similarly, British iron production increased from 1770 tons in 5 to 1800 tons in 13, and then to 1861 million tons in 380.Iron has become plentiful and cheap enough to be used in general construction, thus, mankind has entered not only the age of steam, but also the age of steel.

And due to the large-scale production of industrial products, it has led to the demand for raw materials, so the British need to open up colonies.

Going overseas to open up markets requires huge ocean-going ships, and manufacturing ships requires high-quality steel, and the industrial revolution can provide the best and most steel in the world.

Steel-themed ships are too bulky to rely on wind power, while steam engines provide the best and most consistent power.

This is the basis on which the British can go overseas.

When the British go overseas, they need weapons to deal with the indigenous and local government armed forces, which requires better weapons, and the huge British steel production makes most of the British lethal troops equipped with far more weapons and weapons than the indigenous and local government armed forces. equipment.

Especially guns and cannons, guns and cannons have very high requirements on the barrel, and the UK has the most steel, so it can manufacture the most and the best guns to deal with the indigenous and local government armed forces.

The development of ironmaking technology allowed Europe to manufacture strong ships and sharp guns, and these strong ships and sharp guns allowed Europeans to easily deal with other nations and countries that were not industrialized.

In short, Europeans used strong ships and guns to open up colonies or semi-colonies one after another. These colonies and semi-colonies were not only the source of raw materials that Europeans wanted, but also the markets that Europeans needed.

The market is as important as the raw materials. Without a market, industrially produced commodities are scrap iron if they cannot be sold.

Industrialization has also greatly improved social production efficiency, reduced production costs, and increased the added value of the product itself.

For example, a factory can produce one hundred sweaters a day with automatic looms. These sweaters are no worse than those made by hand, and are even better than hand-knitted sweaters due to industrial standard production.

Therefore, when these products are brought by merchants to countries that have not undergone industrialization, the price is cheaper than the original products, and the quality is better. It is difficult to sell to the UK.

Even if they can be sold, they are all low value-added items, similar to agricultural products or simple handmade products or simply raw materials.

This has led to a trade surplus in most countries and regions in the world, and the UK has a favorable position in foreign trade for a long time.

British products are sold all over the world, and money from all over the world flows into Britain.

With money, everything can be laundered. The original Vikings, Anglo-Saxons, Germanic barbarians, and Celtic barbarians turned into representatives of the nobility.

The queen, the head of the pirates who started by robbing merchant ships, turned out to be a representative of the nobility.

The arsonists who burned down the Old Summer Palace, the looters who blew up the Parthenon, the slave traders who bought and sold black slaves, and the genocides who killed almost all the American Indians, they all made today's British aristocracy together.

There are 96 huge rubies in the crown of Queen Elizabeth of England, which are praised by people. These rubies are all stained red by the blood of countless innocent people who were massacred in the colony.

In the nineteenth century, Britain became the hegemon of the world and established the British Empire where the sun never sets. For the first time, people of various ethnic groups in the world were closely linked together.

It all goes back to an ordinary morning in 1765.

On that day, Watt had a whim and thought of separating the condenser from the cylinder, so that the temperature of the cylinder could be continuously maintained at the temperature of the injected steam, and on this basis, he quickly built a model that could operate continuously.

It can be said that Watt and his improved steam engine are the real creators of the British Empire where the sun never sets, and the real changers of the world pattern.

(End of this chapter)