As we all know, China's science and technology from leading to being chased, and then being overtaken, is the story of the Ming and Qing dynasties, in addition to the ruler's self-imposed self-imposed, China's feudal social structure, the order of the order of the peasants, industry and commerce, is not conducive to the entire civilization is more open, but in modern history, there are also many people who open their eyes to the world, such as Xu Guangqi, Wei Yuan, and the next one to talk about, can be said to be the most powerful inventor of the Qing Dynasty, if Kangxi can reuse him, the Qing Dynasty will also become a world power, Avoiding the situation of human flesh in recent history, the Eight-Power Alliance is not an opponent at all. His name was Huang Luzhuang.
As mentioned before, craftsmen and merchants were widely despised by society and belonged to the bottom, but the "Yu Chu Xinzhi" recorded Huang Luzhuang's career deeds in detail, which was even more difficult. Thanks to this person's gift, microscopes, telescopes, fire mirrors, painting mirrors, multi-objective mirrors to drive the summer fan, and other inventions and instruments entered the vision of the Qing Dynasty a hundred years in advance.
Shunzhi thirteen years (1656), Huang Luzhuang was born in Guangling (Yangzhou), when he was ten years old, he lost his father, can only rely on relatives and friends for a living, as early as Huang Luzhuang was 7 years old, it was already, he can already use dexterous hands to carve wooden people, thanks to the developed water system, Huang Luzhuang from childhood contact with the culture of the world.
Among them, some scientific theories written by European missionaries, including geometry, algebra, and physics, benefited Huang Luzhuang a lot, so "the study of the geometric proportion wheel shaft of Wenxitai is due to the progress of the day". When Huang Luzhuang grew up, he began to invent machinery continuously, and Huang Luzhuang's most dazzling achievement was that he was the world's earliest bicycle inventor.
"Qing Dynasty Wild History Grand View" mask: "A two-wheeled trolley made by Huang Luzhuang, more than three feet long, can sit one person, does not need to push and pull, can be on its own." When walking, bend the side of the axis with your hand, and then repeat the journey as before, and follow the eighty miles of the day foot. ”
According to this introduction, it can be seen that Huang Luzhuang's bicycle, can sit a person, but not with a foot pedal, but with a hand, but also to control the direction, which is also the earliest record of the bicycle, the French Ciflak until 1790, that is, more than 100 years later, only made a wooden bicycle, as the original template common in the current human society, but this car does not have a drive device and steering device, people have to pedal the ground desperately with their feet, in order to move along the straight line.
In 1863, the 27-year-old Huang Luzhuang successfully made a "dry wet device" that used the principle of line moisture absorption and expansion, that is, a hygrometer, and the "Biography of Yu Chu Xinzhi Huang Luzhuang" recorded: "There is a needle inside, which can rotate left and right, dry is left and right, wet is right, it is not pleasant, and it can predict yin and sunny." This and the principle of today's wheel-shaped barometer, it can be said to be very similar, but also the pioneer of modern hygrometers, Huang Luzhuang's other invention "Ruiguang mirror", that is, the use of sunlight reflection severely made of concave mirrors, light can reach several miles, "winter moon people sit in the light, the whole body heats up, such as under the sun." It was also after 1779 that similar inventions appeared in the Qing Dynasty.
In addition, Huang Luzhuang only made a good performance spring to improve his own equipment, and the disciplines he designed also included optics, acoustics, thermodynamics, materials science, and to put it bluntly, this person was the ancient Chinese Edison.
However, it is regrettable that after the age of 28, Huang Luzhuang did not have a posthumous article, and the book "Strange Instruments" left by him was completely lost, so that Huang Luzhuang did not leave any works in later generations, but in the final analysis, the Qing Dynasty did not pay attention to his invention, if Kangxi could reuse Huang Luzhuang, the Qing Dynasty in the weakest science and technology, may have achieved rapid development, so it is not surprising to become a world power.
Of course, this is not a problem of Huang Luzhuang alone, Kangxi himself, in fact, the beneficiary of Western civilization, when he was infected with malaria, it was the cinchona cream brought by the missionaries to save his life, in addition, Kangxi's palace, there are also a large number of missionaries, with him to study geometric astronomy, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, but also built the Western style of the Yuanmingyuan for their own enjoyment, but this force, but never allowed to be transmitted to the people, the Qing court as a minority of people, more worried about their rule is threatened, Under such a dynasty, Huang Luzhuang was not recognized, that is, it was not unexpected, lagging behind the world and losing at the hands of the coalition army, which became inevitable.