Many people feel very sorry that ancient China could not invent systematic science and technology, such as China invented gunpowder, but could not invent aircraft cannons, which is a rather regrettable thing; for example, China invented gunpowder, but it is not willing to further invent a systematic chemical system, so that China lagged behind in science a long way, why is there such a result? Is it because Chinese can't invent it?
As history is further unraveled, it seems that these questions gradually have some answers, and are surprising answers. For example, we now know that Wang Wensu actually built the basic framework of calculus in the Ming Dynasty, and Newton and Leibniz most likely invented calculus by reading books circulating in China, of course, such a result makes us modern people not particularly happy: how can this be?
Some of the current loose data even show that "hydrogen" and "oxygen" were discovered during the Tang Dynasty in China, when they called "hydrogen" yang and "oxygen" "yin". This content is recorded in a Tang Dynasty book called "Pinglong Recognition", and the German scientist Claprote (1783-1835) once saw a manuscript "Pinglong Recognition" that recorded the Tang Dynasty's study of oxygen and hydrogen.
So, why didn't the Tang Dynasty people study this further? Because China has been a nation that explains the unity of heaven and man since ancient times, they believe that this excessive subdivision of things will hurt heaven and earth, change the natural order of all things in heaven and earth, and will attract the revenge of nature. Of course, they were not called nature at that time, but called God or "Tao", and there must have been a certain difference in naming.
In fact, it is precisely because of this that the development of science has always been accompanied by human self-harm behavior. Just like oxygen and hydrogen, once an accident occurs in a chemical plant that produces oxygen and hydrogen, the harm to people is immeasurable. There is a genius inventor in the history of the United States, who invented 2 products that changed human beings, and finally planted themselves in the hands of their own inventions, which can also be seen as the most direct revenge of nature on human technology.
The scientist, Thomas Mikkeli, was born into an upper-class family, his father was an inventor, and he was wealthy. Influenced by his father, and with his abundant financial support, Mikkeli grew up to be an inventor. Born in 1889 and graduating from Cornell University with a degree in mechanical engineering at the age of 22, he began to concentrate on research to make himself rich.
He started out doing mechanical research, which is his old job and is relatively simple to do. However, the research in the field of machinery, in order to make a more revolutionary and huge profitable technological creation is not particularly easy, after a period of mixing in the machinery industry, Mikkeli came to another industry: the chemical industry. With his superior intellect and superhuman financial resources, he quickly became popular in the chemical industry.
During his lifetime, he created more than 100 invention patents, the most controversial and valuable of which were all in the chemical industry. For example, he invented a new type of gasoline knocker, which Mikelli began to study in 1916, and in 1912 developed the most advanced gasoline explosion resistance agent at that time, tetraethyl lead. Looking at this chemical name, everyone knows that this chemical contains lead.
Many of the chemicals containing lead are toxic, and the tetraethyl lead created by Mikili is also toxic. However, the performance of this new anti-explosive agent was too good, and it could be extremely profitable to put on the market, so Mikili decided to mass-produce it. This was unanimously opposed by the workers, but the factories at that time were competing for interests and were not very concerned about the interests of ordinary workers, so the opposition was invalid.
In order to make the workers feel at ease, this great scientist also dared to act, he knew that this thing was poisonous, but he personally sniffed this toxic product in front of all the workers, and then said that he did not have any adverse reactions. It was really a fake play, and soon after he had all the bad reactions: dizziness, nausea and vomiting. Fortunately, he was very rich and was quickly rescued by the hospital.
Despite this, Mikili did not change his personality of asking for money and not dying, and his factory continued to produce. Not only that, he is also ready to further advance on the road of chemical research. With a large amount of talent and money, he soon developed a substance that had affected mankind for many years, Freon. Now everyone knows that this thing is used to make refrigerant for air conditioning, and the performance is very good.
He also received the Platinum Medal for inventing Freon in 1930. At that time, human beings did not see the destruction of the ozone layer by Freon at all, but only saw its excellent refrigeration performance. It wasn't until 1974 that people discovered how much this freon was destroying the ozone layer: if Mikkeli's products were continued, humans might later be exposed to cosmic rays.
Due to the crisis of ozone layer destruction, in 1996, a worldwide consensus was reached to completely ban this environmentally friendly refrigerant. Although there are still some small businesses or private people who use this refrigerant for refrigeration, this is an improved Freon, which is much more environmentally friendly than the Freon invented by Mikili. For these two inventions, Mikili is enough to go down in history: the most murderous individual creatures in history.
However, Mikkeli, who had a high IQ, was clearly unwilling to live his life in such peace, and in 1940 he fell ill with polio. This disease can cause people to be incapacitated, and in order to allow himself to move freely in the future, at least freely in bed, he designed a rope pulley system that allowed him to turn over normally in bed.
If nothing else, Mikkeli could have survived this invention, because it was an invention that really helped humanity, rather than killing people like his chemical products. However, it is not known whether it was because he produced toxic chemicals that caused too many workers to die, and he was finally strangled to death in bed by the rope pulley system he made.
Mencius said, "All things are prepared for me." Reflexive and sincere, happy and generous; forgiving, ask for mercy. "Chinese believed more than 2,000 years ago that all technology and matter must be created to serve humanity, not that we create matter only to accumulate matter or money. However, telling foreigners about this estimate does not help.