Chapter 147: The Telegraph.
-Humans, Conquer the Sky!
From the day after the powered flight experiment took ce, the news rted to it spread rapidly throughout the empire, and newspaperspeted to report on the sess of the powered airne.
Huh, I thought it was only possible in novels, but it became a reality so quickly Its starting to scare me.
I knew it would happen. Why do you think so many schrs rushed to start their research? Because they saw the possibility of sess.
True. There hasnt been any failed research topic among those that were so heatedlypeted for. Otherwise, there wouldnt have been such a fiercepetition in the first ce.
Maybe someday, like in novels, there will be airnes that can carry hundreds of people to the other side of the earth in a day.
Maybe that will be possible in the future?
The impact of the powered airne was much hotter than that of the balloon. The imperial citizens talked about the powered airne every time they gathered.
The development of a powered airne that could fly at high speed was a historic event.
And Karl Mayer, the leader of the research team that won thepetition for making the powered airne, and ck Shadow, who seeded in the first powered flight, gained a huge reputation overnight.
We still have a long way to go.
But Karl Mayer didnt rx at all. After drinking on the day of the sessful flight, he resumed his work on improving the airne.
The powered airne was still iplete, and there werepetitors everywhere. He couldnt rest until he seeded in long-distance flight.
Thanks to that, the performance of the airne improved steadily, and before long, he achieved the feat of seeding in long-distance flight.
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Good. What was his name? ck Shadow? Let him enter the Imperial University as a special student.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Kim Ki-woo smiled with satisfaction as he heard the news rted to the powered airne.
ck Shadow seemed to be helpful for training pilots.
Anyway, the number of powered airnes would continue to increase.
However, Kim Ki-woo stopped thinking about the powered airne at that point.
In fact, it was only a matter of time before the powered airne appeared, due to the desire of humans to fly in the sky and the emergence of internalbustion engines.
Kim Ki-woo was currently focusing on another field.
I cant wait any longer.
Kim Ki-woo had made a lot of efforts to raise the scientific capacity of the empire. As a result, many discoveries and inventions were being made at this moment.
But not everything went as nned.
There were some fields that developed rtively slowlypared to others.
Especially electromaism.
Kim Ki-woo had been thinking about electromaism since hisst visit to the Imperial University, and eventually decided to get involved in it.
I need to install telegraphs as soon as possible.
There were no telegraphs yet, so the speed of information delivery was too slow.
From the perspective of an empire that unified the vast continent of Wakan Tanka, it was imperative to create a revolution inmunication as soon as possible.
The decisive reason why Kim Ki-woo made this decision was because of the trains that ran on railways.
The trains were constantly being improved.
As a result, their speed was iparable to when they first started.
If the departure time of trains was slightly off, terrible idents could happen.
And actually, collisions urred every now and then.
To minimize these idents, they needed amunication system faster than trains, and that was why they needed telegraphs.
And today, Kim Ki-woo heard the news he had been waiting for.
Your Majesty, they say that the researchplex in Hwanggung has beenpleted.
Really?
The researchplex located in Hwanggung of Great Beginning was once a dream ce for schrs.
It was even more famous than Imperial University at one point.
It was a great blessing for them to be able to do research under Kim Ki-woo.
But at some point, Kim Ki-woo reduced the size of his researchplex.
He didnt need to step up anymore, since many universities and research institutes were conducting quality research.
However, for innovation inmunication field, Kim Ki-woo built a researchplex again in one corner of Hwanggung. Of course, he didnt intend to operate it asrge as before.
Where are the researchers?
All researchers have been staying at Hwanggungs amodation since a few days ago.
Kim Ki-woo nodded his head.
They probably didnt know when he would call them, so they waited eagerly at Hwanggung.
He could feel how happy they were about this situation.
Then call them right away. Im going to go to the researchplex now, so get ready.
They are already fully prepared.
Ha ha. Very good. Then lets go right away.
Understood, Your Majesty.
After that, Kim Ki-woo and his entourage boarded a private carriage and headed to the researchplex.
And when they arrived, the researchers who had been selected this time were already gathered.
His Majesty has arrived!
Hooray!
We greet the great emperor, Your Majesty!
Long live the emperor! Long live Wakan Tanka!
The fierce reaction of the researchers.
But it was too familiar to Kim Ki-woo, so he smiled and waved his hand.
Ha ha. You all look so energetic. But dont strain yourselves and stop there.
Everyone, be quiet!
The researchers stopped cheering as if they had just celebrated.
Kim Kiwoo climbed onto the makeshift podium.
He looked around at the numerous researchers and began his speech.
Not long ago, I heard the news of the sessful long-distance flight of a powered airne. You must have heard it too, right?
Yes, Your Majesty!
Thats right!
The eyes of the imperial college graduates sparkled with pride as they heard the story of the powered airne.
Most of the talents in front of him were schrs from the imperial college.
The rest were also the best of their respective colleges.
It was a selection that showed how fierce the research staff recruitment process was.
Is that all? Thanks to the invention of the internalbustion engine that made the powered airne possible, many machines are being developed. There are also many other developments taking ce. But there is one discipline that I think is very important and that is progressing slowly. I want to ovee this with you.
Just leave it to us!
We will do our best!
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After that day, the imperial pce researchplex began to operate in earnest.
Kim Kiwoo set his goal clearly from the first day.
Electricity has infinite potential. Our goal is to use electricity formunication.
Kim Kiwoo gave quite detailed instructions on the direction of the research.
And he started several researches simultaneously.
To use electricity properly, we need more electricity than we have now. Dont you think so?
Your Majesty is right.
So Im going to make a generator first.
The theoretical foundation for electromaic induction was already established.
Kim Kiwoo started developing a generator that produces induced current through electromaic induction.
He had clear knowledge of this in his head, so it didnt take long for him to make a generator.
He put a coil between mas and used power to rotate the coil, causing a change in the maic flux passing through the coil.
This caused an induced current to flow through the coil.
And he also made a transformer that could convert voltage using a simr principle.
Good. This much generator should be enough.
He only needed a moderate amount of electricity for now.
He couldnt store electricity like oil or coal anyway.
Since he had already made a generator, he expected that it would be improved by various research institutes even without him.
He only needed enough power generation for now.
Then Kim Kiwoo headed to aboratory that was developing a telegraph.
Youre here, Your Majesty.
Yes. How is it going?
Pleasee this way.
Kim Kiwoo quietly followed the senior researcher and listened to his exnation.
Good.
He understood his intentions very well.
Kim Kiwoo retraced the original history.
In fact, before Morses telegraph came out, there were attempts to transmit signals using electricity for quite a long time.
It started about 30 years before Morsepleted his telegraph in 1837, so it wasnt a short history.
But Kim Kiwoo didnt want to go through such trial and error.
He already knew the principle and used electromaic inductionw to implement Morses telegraph.
He needed amunication code like Morse code because he used one wire, but it wasnt very difficult to make it.
He also tried to simplify the receiver and transmitter using advanced clock technology.
As time passed, the shape of the telegraph gradually became clear at the imperial pce researchplex.
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And finally, the first telegraph was made at the imperial pce.
Haha. I wonder how amazing your Majestys telegraph will be. Im looking forward to it already.
I heard it was amazing. It would be so much easier to rule the empire if we could ess information from far away in an instant.
The Wakan Tanka Empire will truly be one in its true sense.
Most of the ministers gathered at the demonstration site of the telegraph.
They were curious about the performance of Kim Kiwoos telegraph.
The ministers realized the impact of the telegraph on the empire before the demonstration began.
They had been working in practice for so long that they couldnt help but grasp the ripple effect of the telegraph.
Soon after, as soon as the scheduled time came, the demonstration of the telegraph began.
Tap, taak, tataak.
Wow!
Indeed
People eximed as they saw codes printed on paper.
It works well.
He had already conducted enough experiments at short distances.
But now, the distance of transmission was quite long.
It was from one end of the pce to another.
Nevertheless, it worked as expected.
As long as the wire was not cut off, this distance was not much of an obstacle anyway.
It didnt take long.
Finally, the receiver stopped working.
And the person in charge of decoding started to decipher the code that had the same form as Morse code.
What does it say?
Kim Kiwoo asked him.
He didnt know the content of the message yet, because it was an experiment for urate information transmission.
The decoder wrote down the decoded content on a paper and handed it to Kim Kiwoo.
Read it for yourself.
Kim Kiwoo took the paper from him and read it carefully.
Ha ha. That guy is something.
After reading it all, Kim Kiwoo chuckled and handed it back to him.
Burn it.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Following Kim Kiwoos order, the man lit the paper on fire with a match.
The demonstration was sessful. From now on, we will install this transmitter in all areas of the continent, including railway stations. So make sure you all know that.
What was it about?
Well. Just someonesment. Its not very important. Now, lets disperse.
Kim Kiwoo shrugged his shoulders and left the directors behind as he entered his private carriage.
And he thought to himself as he headed to his office.
You want to retire from the governor-general position and take a break? No way. Im still working too.
He didnt know when he had offended the sender, but what Kim Kiwoo saw was a letter from Prince Deonbeol, the crown prince.
He said it was quite long, but it seemed that the sender had typed the letter in code as it was.
The crown prince had often said that he wanted to step down from the governor-general position for a long time, but Kim Kiwoo had no intention of letting him rest.
There was no one else who could rule the central continent as well as the crown prince.
When he found out that his childrens lifespans were much longer than normal people, Kim Kiwoo made up his mind.
He decided to exploit the crown prince as the governor-general for a very long time.