"Thank you, that's enough." Tom·Buchanan pressed the hem of his suit with some restraint, and signaled to the young attendant who was serving tea. He was dressed especially well today.
Daisy was a little surprised that her husband would behave in such a polite manner. He was usually a guy who could treat the waiter as nothing, but she had never seen such a cultivated attitude.
James was wearing a comfortable and casual silk cigar robe. He took the silk cloth from Casper's butler, wiped the corners of his mouth, and raised the cigar in his hand with a hint of questioning.
Mr. Buchanan stepped forward and took one, lighting it up carefully. Daisy on the side looked as down-to-earth and generous as ever. With a soft voice, she saw a helmet-like object that had just been unpacked and not yet placed on the edge of the hall, and asked curiously.
"Mr. Howlett, what is that scary-looking helmet? Is it a new trend of handicrafts?"
James glanced sideways, secretly cursing Azazel for never knowing how to pack his own things, and explained warmly.
"It's a souvenir I brought back from my trip to Africa a few years ago, the helmet of a tribal chief."
Daisy looked at the helmet with a leopard head and fangs that had a strange texture and had some silvery gray reflections under the light. She enviously told her husband that she must travel to Africa if she had the opportunity.
With this conversation, Tom·Buchanan relaxed a lot and started chatting over cigars.
"My father has told me many times about the legendary stories of James·Mr. Howlett. It is a great honor to come to visit you today."
"That's all my father's experience. I'm just a laid-back person, so there's no need to be so polite." James dealt with it quite skillfully. He was used to visits and compliments like this.
Buchanan continues to talk about relationships, hoping that Howlett Family can give more trust and that Buchanan will have the ability and confidence to do more cooperation projects.
Daisy was secretly shocked that the Buchanan family, the traditional capital aristocracy that has been passed down in the United States for nearly a century, relied so much on this young heir who looked to be less than thirty years old. A down-and-out aristocratic lady like her still lacked vision.
After chatting for a while, Buchanan stood up and left with a wink. Today, he can meet Bruce·Mr. Howlett. Even his father can no longer say that he is a useless polo boy.
"Looking at your burly and strong body, you must be a good athlete. Please come to my mansion and try polo when you have time. I have a very big stadium there. Of course, it can't be compared with your manor, but the polo field is the best!"
Buchanan and his wife left the hall, finally said goodbye to James, and were politely sent out of the manor by the waiter.
James shouted Azazel a few times out of boredom, but there was no response, so he had to arrange for the Casper housekeeper to drive to Howlett Institute in Brooklyn.
After New York came, Azazel often disappeared without a trace, but now he is much more careful and sophisticated and has not caused any trouble.
New York Brooklyn, Howlett Science and Technology Research Institute.
In this era, it is easy for people to criticize the name of a science and technology institute, because in recent years there have been too many unscrupulous businessmen who have created fake products under the guise of selling high technology.
For example, after Marie Curie discovered the element radium more than ten years ago, she claimed that ingesting radium was good for health, and the trend of drinking radium water became popular for a while.
Fortunately, it is difficult to extract this element, and most of the products sold are fakes, so in the end it did not cause too many tragedies.
However, the Howlett Science and Technology Research Institute not only has an unshakable position in the civilian industrial manufacturing industry, but is also an important center for high-end scientific research and military technology that the America government pays special attention to.
"Mr. Howlett, in recent years we have almost developed the basic application of Sound-Absorbing Steel. More problems are limited by the current power model and the limitations of basic science."
Dr. Varden McCall was wearing light work clothes and in the highest-level underground laboratory of the institute, he introduced to James some mechanical products manufactured by Vibranium, such as various engines, automobiles, motorcycles, etc., all manufactured by Vibranium.
In fact, the research on Vibranium in this institute is already the most basic. A large number of in-depth research and casting of Vibranium are in another secret experimental base in the suburbs. These scientists even gave Vibranium a nickname - Sound-Absorbing Steel.
Vibranium can absorb almost all vibrations, including kinetic energy directly applied to it. The absorbed energy will be stored between the molecular bonds that make up the material, which means that the absorbed energy will make the material stronger.
It is relatively easy to smelt when it is used as raw metal ore. When it exceeds the smelting temperature of special steel, it will show signs of melting and can be shaped and forged.
But once cooled and cast, it is difficult to remelt it again at the same temperature, which means the melting point will increase significantly.
Such magical characteristics make Vibranium the best material for power machinery. There is no need to consider the instability caused by overheating of the engine temperature and excessive power, let alone the strength and durability of the material.
The innate basic characteristics of Vibranium determine that an engine built using Vibranium can immediately reach the theoretical limit of power performance in the current era, and the extreme value of Vibranium's absorption of various energies cannot be touched with current methods.
Moreover, Vibranium's extremely strong ductility and plasticity have created an extremely wide range of applications. However, it is a pity that Vibranium is not suitable for manufacturing gunpowder weapons.
For example, a bullet is ejected by the force of the explosion of gunpowder in the barrel. However, if it is a firearm made by Vibranium, the force of the explosion will be directly absorbed and there will be no force.
The engineering and material scientists gathered under James believe that based on the characteristics of this material, it may be affected by a specific high-frequency sound wave to produce property changes. In addition to cold weapons, Vibranium's weapons research is more suitable for energy-like weapons, but there is currently no technical ability to reach this level.
"How is the fusion test with other metal materials going?" James asked cryptically. This is the current focus of the test direction of the secret research institute.
Dr. McCall rubbed his brows with a headache and said helplessly.
"Currently, no combination has been found that is better than the refined and purified Vibranium. Most alloy products only rely on the characteristics of Vibranium to improve the effect of the original material, which does not make much sense."
James also went to an engineering school at the United Kingdom. He understands the dilemma in materials science, which requires a lot of time, material resources and even luck to break through.
"It doesn't matter. Let's do this slowly. Don't make too many finished products. The existing raw materials are still relatively limited. You mainly use them for research."
Dr. McCall also knew that it would be extremely difficult to obtain such a magical metal, and it might be extremely limited. He had studied metals and biochemical materials for many years, but he never thought that there would be such a magical substance in the world.
Only a powerful giant like Howlett Family has such resources.
What gives James a headache is the research progress of Heart-Shaped Herb plants. Howlett Family has not been involved much in the biological and pharmaceutical aspects, and there has always been a lack of technical leaders. He has a candidate in mind, which is a detail deduced from the little information he knows.
But he didn't even know this person's name.
The example of radium water was a few years ahead of schedule, and there were many weird and scary "scientific" creations in that era.