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Buried cables, needing Diamond Dog Ferrets for the ducts, or like the water and sewage, a seperate set of Jeffreys Tubes? District Substations etc, fitted into awkward corners left by previous builds, totally subsurface, or various combinations?
Would the Great Undertaking to supply power though the whole Castle, end up being called The ElectriciTree?, due to a central cable trunk up a fake reinforced flue, with cable branches at each floor, ending in light buds?
Its possible to generate light with very low voltages and Nothing complex, simply by breaking a current carrying wire by a Very small amount. Ive had sustained arcs off a 6 volt laturn battery and a 0.75 mm propelling pencil lead bridging the sprung terminals. 6 volts can be achieved by serial connection of 3 lead acid cells, each made of a glas jar, piece of lead, piece of lead treated to be covered in lead oxide, and containing weak sulphuric acid. Or two sheets of lead covered in lead sulphate with weak sulphuric acid, with DC applied for a while from a voltaic pile to form the correct lead, lead oxide electrodes, demostrating recharging of batteries?
If its all going to a OutFall, then that point will need an even larger version of the sustained water cleaning spell on it if its not going to end up like a 40K forgeworld in the plunge pool beneath? Still, thats a lot of drop down the mountain that would be handy for Hydropower coming back up the power lines.
Celly is just loving all of this activity.
So Equestria is entering the dawn of electricity age. I wonder whether our protagonist was the one who design the magical do-dads Twilight has in her basement?
Oh course she knows! Why wouldn’t she? She likely has everyone that is working or in contact with him monitored
I just realized the way him and water are gonna see the future, well one of two ways at least
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Glad that there's more than one electrical engineer onboard this story mate.
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Unfortunately, not educated, trained, registered, just someone who got to BScDegree level and liked reading not just Scifi/Fantasy, but also technical manuals, and research articles.
Its like trying to save that last 1% on costs. It means the 1% event occurs far more often, and when it occurs the resulting cascade of catastrophic fail is far larger and more expensive to repair.
Something to consider with plugs and sockets. Trying to get the contact area to be at least similar in size to the wires, so the pins dont have a far higher resistance, making it overheat etc. Have you felt how warm some wall plugs supplying kettles, hobs etc get?
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Me too man. Not everybody can stay in college past Bachelor's, least of all engineers. It's fine that you have that kind of degree, as long as you have the passion you'll always be a good one.
I like this chapter, this was cool! can't wait for more tho
I would have expected him to present knowledge of the printing press quite soon. It led to somewhat of a revolution by suddenly enabling the masses to have access to cheap books. Before everything had to be hand written and thus took a lot of time and work for even a single book making reading something of an upper class only thing. The printing press revolutionized the spread of knowledge and gave a boost to research, literacy and education of the general population. Quite the huge effect for such an easily replicated piece of technology.
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The little motor was made with a few days' work. I really don't think a printing press can be assembled with the same speed with the given technology? If it can, spill the details! I'd love to hear. I am here to learn too ya know.
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The most basic version is simply metal stamps (or other materials). A letter or symbol per stamp. Those are then set into a simple frame the seize of a page. Each page you want to print has the be set into a separate frame manually but with one such frame you can then roll some ink over the surface and literally press it into the paper, hence the name printing press (usually there is a bit of a framework to hold the printing block as well as the paper in place). With that you can then rapidly duplicate the same page over and over.
As frame for pressing the paper and stamp evenly together the early versions simply used a normal wine press and modified it a bit.
Even a carved wooden block can be used a a stamp. For example you can carve a picture into them to add images to your prints.
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Those all sound doable, yes, but also _not quick_. The best he could do would be to instruct a pony what he wanted and have them do all the work and hope it ended up where he wanted it to, because it's all work he can't do himself, unlike the highschool-level electric motor, which is why he started there. It's just so... simple, mechanically, that even a rank newb can slap one together quickly if they know the trick.
Am I making sense?
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Yep.
But the idea itself is worth a lot and the technology for it already exists. The only effort would be crafting a sufficient number of letters and making the ponies accept unified block lettering despite being used to cursive artistic writing with quills.
As well as increasing/improving the paper production. I am not to sure but parchment was relatively expensive back then. I think.
Considering so much of this story is set in the past, methinks that one of two things happen.
1. Magic happens that makes Ian immortal OR just have a really long lifespan. Like Celestia.
2. TIme travel shenanigans.
However, we're not at that point yet, and I still like how this story is playing out. Can't wait to see this story continue.