Chapter 78: A New Era
— 7 Days until the 1-month deadline —
After receiving the task from Count Julian Moore to find an alternative to Coal power using green methods, Vivian tasked all the affiliated scientists with the mission of trying to produce Direct current generators.
Knowing the difficulty of what she was asking for, Vivian had to dust off all the otherworldly knowledge in Nadia’s memories and started to work on the project herself. She left the management of the company to Oscar Mason and the gun development project to Jane and Voros, who have recently succeeded in creating the rifling grooves in gun barrels and are now working on enhancing the equipment they use to create new guns.
As for the electricity research, Vivian put effort along with the scientists until they reached the point where the first homopolar generator (Faraday Disk), the first successful yet the weakest version of the DC generator.
This was the first huge step taken towards the modern dynamo and the scientist on the team wanted to attribute it to Vivian who refused such an attribution as all her contributions were only theoretical advice. However since this generator had a very weak voltage, the team started to work on expanding it immediately and even made a few more generators in series to make a more powerful current.
Vivian also worked on more electric conductivity technologies since most of the scientists were using exposed wirings and hard conductors. By hiring a few artisans and metal workers to create proper electrical wires of various sizes, the development speed was boosted on a scale that the theoretical science was struggling to keep up with the applications.
— 6 Days until the 1-month deadline —
As six days remained, Vivian was confident that Professor Bellfield and his team were going to make it in a day or two especially now that the laboratory the work in is completely lit with Light Bulbs.
It was a weird paradox to many of the scientists why Vivian helped create an invention that is not supported by today’s level of electrical technology yet she was the core figure in developing the DC generators on such a rapid scale. Some of them started to even joke about how she was a traveler from the future, which terrified Vivian and made her decide to take a hands-off approach to the current project.
At ViTech headquarters, Vivian encountered Professor Fritz Hansen, a scientist working on a separate project known as Project Melody. Professor Hansen, a skilled technician from Buren, held teaching positions at the second and third royal academies in Elgard and was Jane’s teacher for two semesters. Vivian had generously funded Professor Hansen’s research which she was most excited for and took the same approach she had taken with Professor Bellfield with him.
Project Melody, however, needed the interference of many other experts from various fields but it was rather in a late stage of development since Vivian had been focusing on it right after introducing the Light Bulb to the public two weeks ago.