Chapter 490: Energy Regulation (Monthly Ticket Bonus Chapter)
The electrical revolution was not limited to lighting. Some simple electric appliances with little technical complexity had also begun to emerge.
For example, the electric fan was one such accidental creation, invented by a technical worker.
It began with the need to cool equipment. Finding mechanical fans inconvenient to use, he wanted to create a fan that required no human operation.
In a flash of inspiration, he attached a piece of iron to an electric motor. Once connected to a power source, the blades spun rapidly, and thus the earliest electric fan was born.
Franz had initially thought that another great scientist had emerged, but an investigation revealed that the man was merely an ordinary technical worker. Aside from accidentally inventing the electric fan, he possessed no talent for scientific research.
Real-life cases once again proved that technological invention was full of coincidence. There were many similar examples; many practical technological inventions had been created by ordinary people.
This strengthened Franz's resolve to add courses cultivating hands-on ability to education. Thus, beginning in 1871, Austrian students gained another practical course.
It was like a later joke: a true top student was someone who could build a nuclear reactor in his own garage.
Such people were exactly what Austria needed most. Having reached the forefront of the technological revolution, Austria no longer had anyone left to imitate. The former empire of knockoffs now had no choice but to innovate independently.
Franz rarely intervened in such matters. For a country to become truly strong, it had to possess the ability to conduct independent research and forge ahead, rather than be led around by the nose by him, the Emperor.
The achievements of his previous life could certainly be used to avoid detours, but for