One of the rooms in the Winter Pce has been repurposed for Alexander’s work. It was a newly-installed drafting room, where he spent most of his time working on a new design he’ll introduce in this technological dark age alternate world.


    Inside the drafting room, Alexander was busy doing business as usual. Drawing on a bond paper that varied in different sizes.


    For now, he’s designing what would be the first most reliable, and efficientputer in the world.


    Leaning over to his paper, Alexander drew across the paper with a T-square straightening the line he had drawn. t’s a schematic view of theputer he was designing


    The currentputer he’s working on was as tall as a person and consume a lot of space, simr to theputers that existed in the 1940s andte 1950s.


    With a single stroke, he had finally done it.


    Alexander stretched his arms outward and wiped the sweat off his forehead with the back of his arm. Even though the weather is cold, he can’t help but sweat when he’s at work.


    “Okay! Twenty redraw to go!” Alexander said enthusiastically but deep inside, he was slowly dying._-.


    The fact that he has to redraw the schematics 20 times is really killing him. Without the Computer-Aided Design software, he’ll have to design everything in an old-fashioned way until he makes one.


    There is no zoom in or zoom out. Working onplex machinery such as the second generationputers involves small parts that need to be erged in order for other engineers to have a clear view of it. To do that, he’ll redraw it again.


    This process is repetitive and tedious. And that’s also the reason why he respected engineers, architects, and designers who weren’t born in theputer age where one won’t have to suffer from this process.


    He’ll eliminate that by creating aputer simr to the electronic drafting machine that was created in thete 1950s and a sketchpad, the firstputer-aided design software, but in his own version, which will be faster, easy to learn, and cheaper than the old model in his past world.


    To give you an idea of how aputer was used in the past, allow me to tell you a story. From the 1930s to the 1950s, engineersmunicate with theputers using punched cards which are coded to perform a specific task such as calcting the trajectory of naval artillery to create a firing table during world war. And in the postwar, new technologies such as jet aircraft, helicopters, and new engines are born. Now that is something that can’t be done by hand, well they did but there were a lot of mechanical failures and design ws, even killing a pilot that test-flight a helicopter. The reason helicopter des wereplicated is that the bnce weight was installed on the front end of the de to help with the tilt-up for the pitch angle.


    So in thete 1940s. The United States Air Force needed help with ultra-precise wing construction, Sir John T. Parsons pitched his design of a machine that will help them create helicopters rotors and aircraft wings that is entirely made by machines and free of human intervention, he won the contract and was tasked to make it a reality.


    And in reality, he did, in 1952 a machine named “Motor Controlled Apparatus for Positioning Machine Tool” was born.


    However, there is a limit to that. You see, the machine gets its order from punch cards, which are just a set of instructions, now why am I making a big deal about this? Because numerically controlled machines ran on data from punched cardsrgely made using a painstaking manual process. They have to develop something new to reduce this tedious process. Introducing an EDM or Electronic Drafting Machine created in 1962.


    It was a revolutionary step toward the progress of CNC technologies. You see, people can write programs using letters and numbers with punch cards as their medium. Each group of holes represents one letter in a word that you tell aputer what to do next. However, there are so many things that people do when theymunicate with each other that don’t fit into aputer too well.


    Want an example? Here we go. Let’s assume that we’re talking on a phone and I wanted you to draw an American g. Now you know what I’m going to tell you since you’re familiar with it. But if we’re going to discuss this over the telephone, I would have this problem of saying…


    Well, first you have to pick up a pencil and go to the left low hand corner of the screen and start drawing a horizontal line. Draw eight inches then go up a quarter of an inch and draw a horizontal line in the other direction. As I tell you these detailed instructions as you go up through the g and where the stars were and so on and eventually you’d be able to draw the American g from my instructions…or not.


    You see what happens is probably you’re going to call me back and say why don’t you draw the US g on a piece of paper, mail it to me, so I’ll know how to draw it more easily. And here you see a man needing to use graphicmunication to tell another man what he wants.


    Fun fact, they actually did draw an American g using codes and it takes a lot of pages to get there.


    And that is the very thing Alexander has to create. Now there is a prerequisite, he has to improve the designs of the current cathode ray tube televisions which will be a crucial part of the design.


    To fund this project and not bepletely reliant on his annuity or royal treasury, he has to set up his own manufacturing nt under his name in all aspects of the industry: the raw materials industry, manufacturing, and construction, service industry, everything!


    The ie generated from those business will be used to fund his next projects.


    It’ll be a waste if his million of money will just sit there in his bank ount after all.


    He desperately needs this machine to make some of his designs into reality. It’s the reason why a Bell UH-1 is only just a dream to him because of theck of modernputing equipment.


    It took him six hours toplete his initial designs and then a television that he’ll n tomercialized…He got carried away and designed more such as the heat pump, microwave ovens, refrigerators, and toasters, which are more advanced than the current ones.


    His lips curled into a grin as he finished the designs that were spread across the drafting tables. As a businessman himself in his past life, he knows how to exploit the system. Invent something new that is considered rudimentary and every year, introduce new kinds of stuff or innovate what was created to make customerse back for you. Just like how Apple introduces a new brand every year.


    The handheld phone is a thing of the future, there’s no infrastructure in this world that can support that tech such as cellr tower. At least not yet.


    He’ll take it slow and work his way up, making the Ruthenia Empire a producer of better technology and machinery that will dethrone the Deutd Empire as the world’s science finest.


    He looked at his wristwatch and saw the time. It was nine p.m. in the evening. Only thirty minutes left before his date with Sophie started.


    ‘Shit..’ He cursed inwardly and headed to the door, grabbing a coat from a clothes hanger and leaving the drafting room.


    He took a hot bath to wash the grease off his body and to warm himself up and donned his expensive suits that are tailored by Sardegna Empire and his recently bought diamond ring as a gift to her for Christmas.


    Her Christmas specifically, Ruthenia celebrates Christmas on a different date.


    This is to respect the customs she had grown ustomed to. As a man, he must be considerate when ites to his partner, especially if that girl will be the most important person in the future of the Ruthenia Empire.


    Combing his hair in a formal style and making sure his suit is impable and also pairing it with some very nice shoes, he noticed his reflection in the mirror and smiled in satisfaction.


    He’s ready for this.


    Leaving his bedroom, Rn, who was stationed by the door, handed him a bouquet of roses, Sophie’s favorite.


    “Just in time Rn,” Alexander smiled as he received the flower. Sniffing it and a fragrant aroma filled his nose.


    She’ll surely like this.


    “Looking great today sir, you look handsome,” Rn praised, making Alexander winked in pride.


    “I get that all the time, making me used to it.”


    Theyughed at one another.


    “So, good luck out there, Your Majesty.”


    “I got this,” Alexander smiled and head out towards the special dining hall of the Winter Pce.