Chapter 85: Fraudulent Nectar Powder

Chapter 85: Fraudulent Nectar Powder

“Drip, drip, drip.”

When the alarm sounded, Elhaisen immediately stood up to turn off the alarm and quickly restored the dial and typing equipment.

get off work.

"Huh? Wait! Stay fifteen more seconds, I haven't finished recording the data this time!" Kavi said anxiously, turning his head with the feather pen in hand.

"It's time to get off work now. If you want to record something, wait until tomorrow." Elhaisen tidied up the papers on the desk without giving any face, then put on his headphones, turned on the noise reduction mode, and turned away.

Kawi looked unhappy, but he had to write down today's data: 152, 45 seconds

This means that Elhaeson typed 152 words in 45 seconds.

A month ago, he and Elhaisen worked together to make a typewriter specifically for the sacrificial body, although he and Harold had agreed from the beginning to use the "predictive input" method to arrange the keyboard.

But when he was unsure about the typing efficiency, he made a typewriter by arranging the typefaces according to the frequency of use of all the sacrificial characters, and asked Elhaisen to use it and then record their input efficiency.

Practice has shown that Elhaisen was happy to cooperate with this experiment and conceived the framework of the textbook in his mind. He skipped the step of writing a draft and directly wrote the teaching materials on a typewriter.

As he worked, Kavi watched his hands with a pen and paper, carefully counting his typing per minute.

They first used typewriters whose keys were arranged according to the frequency of use of words.

On the first day, Elhaisen was not familiar with the arrangement of more than 700 characters. In three hours, he could only type an average of 30 characters per minute.

By the next day, he was typing an average of fifty words a minute.

On the third day, he could type an average of 100 words per minute.

Kavi wanted to continue observing, but Elhaisen called for a stop.

Elhaisen: "This is the limit. I memorized the order of the keyboard. Although you arranged the words according to their frequency of use, it is too difficult for desert people to accurately select the desired words from more than 700 words.

If you ask a desert person to test it, I estimate that the average speed of a skilled typist is only about 40 words per minute."

Forty words a minute? That's too slow.

Kavi frowned, not satisfied with the number: "Not really, right? They should be more familiar with their own writing than you, a newbie?"

El Haisen: "If you don't believe me, just ask someone to try it and you'll know."

Kavi was skeptical of this claim, but he couldn't recruit people in a big way or carry such a heavy typewriter to the desert to find people to conduct experiments.

Among his contacts, the only people who knew the language and were trustworthy, besides Elhaisen, were Setale and Harold.

Kavi invited them to participate in the test.

"Look, isn't this typewriter very beautiful? I have carefully considered the shape and color of the body!" Kavi excitedly introduced his design ideas to the two.

“Based on the traditional Xumi typewriter, I designed the roller to fit the body more closely. There are as many as 700 sacrificial characters. I arranged them on the keyboard and set up a device to pick up the characters.

Here, here, you can move freely. Just aim the device at the words on the dial and press the button to type the corresponding words on the paper."

Kavi introduced and demonstrated to the two how to use the typewriter.

The actual process of selecting characters was not so simple. The characters on the dial were too small and difficult to align. It took Harold and Setale ten minutes of experimentation before they mastered the technique.

Kavi took out the prepared documents and asked them to type out a novel he provided.

After trying for a week, Harold could only type thirty words per minute at most after getting used to the typewriter keyboard. Setale was more familiar with the language, and she could type forty words per minute at most.

"Sure enough, I'm still not used to the 700-word dial. I felt like my head was going to explode after reading it for a minute." Harold said helplessly.

Setale felt the same way. The moment she saw the densely packed dials, she felt like she couldn't breathe.

There are only twenty words in Xumi's common characters. As the sage's assistant, she often has to deal with typewriters. She is a skilled typist in the Ministry of Education. Using the Rain Forest typewriter, she can type nearly two hundred letters in a minute.

After being accustomed to a typewriter with only thirty-six keys, she felt that a typewriter with more than seven hundred keys was too troublesome to use.

"How many words can Senior Elhaisen type in one minute?" Harold asked curiously.

"One hundred words, he said it couldn't be any faster."

Even though Kavi was unwilling, he had to admit that the typing efficiency of this typewriter was indeed low.

Harold was shocked: "Duo Shao?!"

In his previous life, in the decades after the invention of the Chinese typewriter, the typing speed of Chinese typewriters was around fifty words per minute, until the eighteen-plate character picking method appeared.

Elhaisen can type a hundred words in one minute using a traditional typewriter. What kind of typing speed is that?

"One hundred words?!" Setale couldn't help but exclaim. She looked at the densely packed typewriter keyboard and couldn't believe that Elhaisen's typing efficiency could be so high using this typewriter.

"He memorized the keyboard, and I think he's right. Most people can't reach his speed."

Kavi sighed and began to hope for another typewriter.

Because the keyboard of that typewriter is arranged according to the frequency of use of words and sentences, commonly used words are connected together, and the arrangement of words is regular.

So it took Elhaisen only half an hour to memorize the entire keyboard, and that day his typing speed reached 150 words per minute.

Kavi stared at Elhaisen's hands and recorded every minute. In the first fifteen minutes, Elhaisen could only type fifty words a minute, but in the last fifteen minutes his efficiency had exceeded that of using the previous typewriter.

"Using this typewriter should increase your efficiency by 50 percent. The previous typewriter you made can be eliminated." After completing a day's work, Elhaisen gave this evaluation.

"Can it go faster?" Kavi asked as he calculated Elhaisen's efficiency in the next two hours and plotted it as a function.

"Don't hang around in front of me. I'm okay, but I'm not sure about others." Elhaisen replied.

"I was recording, not waving it in front of you! Don't talk nonsense." Kavi said dissatisfiedly.

After a while, he asked in a low voice, somewhat guiltily: "Did it really affect your work?"

El Haisen was in a good mood: "No."

"Then what did you say? Are you trying to make fun of me?!" Kavi cursed.

After saying that, he fell into deep thought. He knew that Elhaisen was not bragging but just stating a fact. He invited Setale and Haroldt to test again. Their average typing speeds were 70 words per minute and 60 words per minute respectively.

Elhaise was right again.

Kavi scratched his hair in distress. This efficiency was still too low. If he wanted to improve production efficiency, he could only develop a typewriter with voice input.

He first tried using the common language of Xumi, sealing different concentrations of elemental forces in the keys, corresponding to different vibration frequencies. The sound vibrations formed sound waves, which were transmitted to the keyboard through pipes, and the elemental forces in the corresponding keys would become active.

He constantly adjusted the concentration of elemental force in different keys to make voice input more accurate. Two weeks later, he successfully made the first typewriter that could perform voice input. With standard pronunciation, the typing accuracy rate was as high as 99.99%.

This typewriter freed the user's hands, but the typing efficiency was not higher than the original typewriter because the accuracy of the typewriter's output of letters would decrease once the words were spoken too quickly.

Moreover, the materials that can seal elemental forces are expensive and cannot be sealed permanently. This means that if one wants to popularize this typewriter, one needs to open special elemental force filling shops. However, the cost of such a fatally flawed typewriter is as high as 3.2 million Mora. It is impossible for the House of Lords to spend a large amount of money to promote this project in order to improve the working conditions of typists.

Even so, Kavi still believed that this was a successful attempt. The advent of this voice-input typewriter proved that his theory was feasible, and he began to use this principle to make a typewriter with 700 keys.

He first had to find a potion that could reflect the activity of the elemental force, because some of the words in the sacrificial body had the same pronunciation, and he couldn't let the keyboard recognize these words based on pronunciation.

He could only modify the device so that when a text message was received, the corresponding text keys would all light up, so that the user only had to pick out the text he wanted to enter from these keys.

In one month, Kavi recorded Elhaisen's typing efficiency, followed up on the shared tricycle project, made a voice-input typewriter, and completed the internship tasks assigned to him by his mentor. His life was extremely fulfilling.

Harold received the atomizer sent by Dolly, and he immediately tried to make the nectar powder using the method of making honey powder.

He customized a cylindrical container as a drying chamber. It was made of alloy, with a square door and a circular observation port in the upper part of the barrel, and an air heater installed inside.

Before making the dried nectar powder, he first tested the ph value of the nectar with a ph test paper. The ph value was 4.5, which was acidic. Pouring the nectar directly into the atomizer would corrode the device, so he added water to neutralize the ph value of the nectar to close to 7.

Then he connected the spray outlet of the atomizer to the drying chamber and poured the prepared nectar into the atomizer. After passing through the atomizer, the nectar turned into extremely fine mist droplets. Haroldt could see a large cloud of mist rising in the drying chamber through the observation port.

After the temperature in the barrel rises, the mist comes into contact with hot air. Because the contact area between the mist droplets and the air is large and the temperature is high, the moisture in the nectar evaporates quickly and the sprayed nectar mist turns into fine particles and powder in just ten seconds.

"Disadvantages of dried nectar powder: it causes loss of nutrients in the nectar, the dryer is too large, the thermal efficiency is below 40%, and the fuel loss is too high... Advantages: it removes the nectar pollen and other impurities, and can be eaten by people who are allergic to pollen, eliminates the side effects of nectar pollen, and the solid is easy to store and carry..."

Harold recorded the pros and cons of making the fake pollen in a notebook.

When the atomizer stopped emitting the fake nectar, Harold turned off the equipment, and when the display showed that the internal temperature had dropped, he opened the door of the drying room.

“Disadvantages: The spray drying method is used to make the nectar powder, which is prone to sticking to the wall.”

Harold looked at the fine particles stuck to the inner wall of the drying chamber, frowned, and added another item to the "disadvantages" column.

Then he collected all the nectar particles in the drying room, put them into a grinder for further crushing, and beat the larger particles into a uniform powder.

All these processes did not take long. When the grinder stopped working, he collected the dry nectar powder and put it into glass bottles. In less than an hour, he had five bottles of 300 ml of dry nectar powder.

Harold scooped a spoonful of powder into the cup, then added water to make nectar water and took a sip.

tasty.

He then began experimenting with using dried nectar powder instead of sugar to make bread and jam.