Chapter 1465: Raw rubber raincoat

With the spying of spies, various news came back from the island of Ireland using pigeons. Marin looked at the information and frowned ...

Speaking of which, the situation on the Irish island is actually not very complicated. Now, there are probably more than a dozen indigenous forces. Each of its forces is similar to the Japanese name. To put it bluntly, it is the "village head". Among them, the most powerful O'Neill family has only one or two thousand soldiers.

However, the Irish in this era still have some barbarian characteristics. In other words, ordinary residents can also enter the battlefield. Unlike the mainstream serf society in Europe, the serfs had little fighting power.

The difference between the serf and the barbarian people is that the serf was domesticated into sheep by the nobility, and there was no resistance. The barbarians are more aggressive because of their natural preference for freedom.

Like the O'Neill family close to the king's direct territory, it is estimated that thousands of soldiers can be gathered in wartime ...

And others such as the Dempsey family, O'Reilly family, Brooks family, O'Connor family, etc., each can also make up two or three thousand soldiers.

(Irish people seem to have more surnames starting with the Austrian character and Mike. If they encounter anything starting with the Austrian character and starting with mac \\\\ mc, they are generally Irish descendants. Of course, the fat man of O’Neill is not counted, it is black. Imitate the names of white people. For example, McDonald's was founded by Irish descendants. McDonald's English starts with Mc. McCarthy is also a surname from Ireland. As mentioned earlier in this book, the McCarthy dynasty was destroyed by the protagonist.)

But the problem is that these indigenous people are generally difficult to gather together to fight. They are more accustomed to fighting in their hometowns than uniting with other tribes.

Thanks to this, the English can break through. Otherwise, England ’s dispatch of 30,000 troops may not be enough.

Marin is not worried about the strength of the Irish indigenous people ’s military power. In the face of the powerful North Sea army, the Irish indigenous armed forces are all scum.

However, the intelligence sent back by the spy made Marin frown. Because, the spy reports said that the west of the island of Ireland is rainy all year round. Fighting there, the use of firearms is very affected.

Of course, this refers to the matchlock gun, but it also includes artillery. After all, the artillery is still on the firing rope, don't think of firing it when the rain is pouring.

The clockwork lighter can be used, but when filling it, it is also necessary to hide in the rainproof shed to fill it, so as not to damp the gunpowder. Only when shooting, you can not be afraid of rain.

It is also due to the fact that the gunners in Beihai now are all sealed in oil paper, and they are not afraid of wet weather. If the old-school musketeers put the gunpowder in a copper pot, they would have to stir it before the war. The gunpowder must be damp.

But the artillery fired because of the fire door, which is really impossible. Encountered the weather in the west of Ireland, it was called a blind man.

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What is even more blinding is that these 25,000 soldiers, including almost 20,000 civilians, how to avoid rain ...

Speaking of which, ordinary soldiers are actually very easy to handle. Because, Beihai has a rain-proof artifact such as Shui. But trouble is trouble for those nobles, including Edward himself.

It ’s okay for you to let ordinary soldiers wear sacks of woven grass to protect them from the rain. You can let those nobles, including the king Edward, wear clothes made of grass ... as if they ca n’t hold the face ...

But these people don't wear clothes, how to prevent rain? Does it stop military operations on rainy days? These noblemen are commanders. Without them, the soldiers could not attack alone ...

"Do you want me to get a raincoat to wear them?" Marin muttered depressively.

In fact, this year, it is not impossible to get a raincoat. For example, by using tung oil produced in the Ming Dynasty and soaking cotton cloth, a waterproof oil cloth can be made.

However, while this tarpaulin is waterproof, it is very afraid of fire. If they were shot by an opponent's rocket, the soldiers would roll in the fire. After all, tung oil is also oil, and cotton is inherently flammable ...

Moreover, at this moment, Marin did not have enough tung oil and cotton cloth to make oil cloth ...

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"No, I seem to have materials for making raincoats!" Marin suddenly remembered something, a thing he had abandoned before-raw rubber ...

Raw rubber is non-vulcanized rubber and has little practicality. Generally, rubber vulcanization is best carried out after the rubber emulsion is cut from the rubber tree. Because at this time vulcanization, sulfur is relatively easy to spread evenly in the rubber emulsion. Vulcanization with raw rubber is more difficult. Because raw rubber does not melt into a liquid state, it is more difficult to process. Perhaps later generations of professionals do not find it difficult, but for Marin, a chemical semi-hanger, finished raw rubber is really difficult to handle. Therefore, he intends to cut the pile of rubber blocks transported on the boat into rubber **** and distribute them to the children. Of course, it has not been implemented yet.

And this time, when thinking of the raincoat, Marin's memory deep in his head was turned out-it seems that the earliest raincoat was obtained by coating the fabric with rubber emulsion. The rubber is not flammable, and it is not afraid of being worn by the enemy to be dealt with by the enemy with the method of "burning rattan soldiers".

Of course, Marin's idea is actually wrong. The tarpaulin made of tung oil is certainly flammable. However, as long as it is taken out to cover the rain on a rainy day and put away on a sunny day, there is no danger. You still wear a raincoat made of oilcloth on a sunny day, are you sick?

However, it is better to have a raincoat made of rubber ...

Marin also recalled an anecdote-the earliest raincoats were made by the Indians. They directly applied rubber latex to the clothing to achieve the purpose of waterproofing. Later, the French Freno also used this method to get the earliest raincoat, but it was not made public. Later, a British worker named McIndus accidentally rubbed the rubber sticky material on the clothes while processing raw rubber thick material (natural rubber will not melt, but will soften to a solid rubber state after high temperature). . After waiting to dry, he suddenly found that the clothes glued with raw rubber had waterproof function. Then, other workers imitated.

However, this method of sticking raw rubber to the surface of clothing is not effective. Because, after the rubber is hardened, it becomes brittle and easily breaks.

Later, an engineer named Parkes used carbon disulfide as a solvent to dissolve the raw rubber and then soaked the clothes in the solution. After taking it out, when the carbon disulfide component evaporates, it becomes a raincoat ...

But this kind of raincoat still has its shortcomings, that is-when exposed to high temperature, the rubber on the clothes is easy to become soft and sticky ... If you wipe it with your hands at this time, the clothes will be spoiled ...

Therefore, it was solved by later generations using vulcanized natural rubber and making raincoats ...

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Marin now does not have vulcanized natural rubber, nor carbon disulfide as a solvent. However, he knows that natural rubber is not only soluble in carbon disulfide, it is also soluble in-gasoline ...

There is no carbon disulfide Marin, but Marin really has such a thing as gasoline. Right now, Marin can receive oil mined from Galicia every month, which can be used to fractionate gasoline to serve as a weapon for the cost of burning wood in the future.

Now, it just happens to be a wave of raincoat ...

Although Marin now only has raw rubber that has not been vulcanized ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ The raincoat made by it should not be exposed to high temperature exposure. But Marin is not worried, why? Because the island of Ireland has a high latitude, there is basically no high temperature exposure.

Therefore, his raincoat made of raw rubber generally does not encounter a semi-melt and sticky situation. Besides, Marin can ask Edward and other noble users to take out their raincoats on rainy days ...

In this way, Marin took the birth of rubber blocks and gasoline and began the production of the original raincoat. These raincoats are mainly aimed at the English aristocracy. After all, these nobles refused to wear the faceless clothes like raincoats on rainy days. As for the officers of the Beihai Kingdom, they had no idea. After all, Marin took the lead in wearing clothes.

However, this time Marin had enough raw materials in his hand, so he might as well get one for each of them. After all, when the British nobles saw their officers wearing straw coats, they were a little bit faceless ...

Wait until Cuba gets the vulcanized natural rubber next time, and then produce a cooked rubber raincoat that is not afraid of high temperature exposure ...

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