Chapter 119

Chapter 119

The Third Technology Tree

Clearly as smart people, not needing that long time to understand the game's rules.

Surprisingly Miss Edith's Edward Sandwich Game included special cards that draw like the golden cards of Monopoly and grant various missions or penalties, status abnormalities etc., and they immediately adapted even though concepts seeing for the first time.

The problem was that these gentlemen, people who absolutely can't accept the game as a simple game.

"Fresh? Moreover fun? Why on earth is this fun? A simple card horse play of throwing dice? The first game I felt more fun than poker in my 77 years life."

"I seem to have grasped the principle."

"Mr. Tesla, then will you explain?"

"There are special event cards that exist only in this game. Those cards create enormous variables in the game and implement chaotic states, and also make unexpected situations. While doing so change the flow between players in an instant or nullify victory plans, and maintain appropriate tension until the game ends. Probably felt interest in such a process I think."

"Hmm, has reason. Your theory might be correct."

No, only played three rounds why discussing what's fun there?!

"Moreover this jellied eel card if entering the deck unconditionally deducts scores (NOT). To replace with another card have to roll the dice once more (OR). Also, if no two bread cards can't make a sandwich so (AND), if in such a situation (IF) scores fixed at 0 can strategically apply. Such simple elements seem to have made the game more fun... ni... only...?"

"Correct! Exactly matches my thought! But why dragging the end of your words so?"

I momentarily thought I heard wrong. Because Mr. Tesla while talking exactly brought out the basic logic operators IF, AND, OR, NOT.

Things I know well even used as Excel functions.

"Lady Edith."

"Yes?!"

"By any chance have you learned algebra at university...?"

"Yes? No?!"

"Amazing. This is clearly Boolean algebra."

"Wait wait wait, you, Boolean algebra?"

"Clearly this game seems made based on Boolean algebra. Of course if not intentional really an amazing matter."

Here the liberal arts seem only me and Miss Edith.

We two couldn't understand the words and were bewildered, but because only electrical engineering majors three people at this place strangely conversation communicated well among themselves.

"Boolean algebra, meaning that symbolic logic concept Teacher George Boole created dozens of years ago, right? That person is my teacher's teacher. Heard was a mathematics professor at Cork Queen's in Ireland until passing away."

"Probably correct, Teacher Thomson."

In this conversation I clearly felt.

Absolutely don't boast saying inventor anywhere.

At least have to be a level to join that degree of conversation to boast was correct.

I decided to just shut up before my shabby science knowledge is exposed.

Still as a future person fortunately there were parts I understood.

Don't know what Boolean algebra is, but anyway them calling logic operators so was certain.

"Come come, continue the game. Seems interest a bit attached, if betting seems will become more exciting."

"Bet? What bet?"

"How about betting 1 penny per score?"

"Betting money? That really concentrated and fun! But then really illegal?!"

"Well how, I'm the chairman now."

"Ahem. Well, if the living power chairman says so. This place will know as suspended from all customary constitutions of Britain unofficially! Later no reporting each other to the police station!"

For reference I almost never lost in games with money at stake throughout previous and current life.

They might analyze the fun and structure of the game well, but hard to beat a modern person equipped with game brain.

Not even an hour passed over 100 pence coins piled in front of me, and I firmly kept the 1st place and soloed.

"Oh dear! This impossible! How on earth do you do the game so well? Can't win even one round!"

"Teacher Thomson, seems haven't heard that maxim in London yet. 'Absolutely don't play poker with money at stake with Jean-Paul Durand'."

"No, where on earth is such a word?!"

"The people sitting at the pub in the back alley all claimed so? How much did you tear and go around with betting poker in the past?"

"Ha, that's slander!"

"What, even witnesses! Both the Earl of Derby and Mr. Henry said with one mouth absolutely won't play poker with you?"

Since even witnesses came out, no more debate I can win.

Mr. Edison mixed the cards again like playing poker. This game has growth elements like roguelike, so even if overturning the board some elements like titles continue so really fun.

"Come come, let's continue! This Edison is 2nd! You'll take a long time to catch up to me! Hahaha!"

"C-come a moment! I'll reset this a bit!"

The creator of the game Miss Edith instead of directly participating in the game, voluntarily played the bank role.

In this kind of score accumulation type board game calculation is very important.

So Miss Edith pulled the lever of the arithmometer brought from the office and turned the crank and carefully checked the scores.

Louis Payen's arithmometer.

What is an arithmometer, a mechanical calculator made in the 19th century, with built-in rotary drums and gears, gears meshed possible addition and subtraction, multiplication, division up to 10 digits.

A complex machine, but thanks to mass production already possible not that expensive more than thought. About 10 pounds per unit? All banks in London used such arithmometers for calculation.

But no way ordinary people can buy an arithmometer.

Also a part one must point out if thinking of commercializing the board game.

"A bit problem. Directly playing the score calculation quite bothersome. Miss Edith, how about reducing a few rules?"

"Rules?! What?!"

"For example this 'spoiled ingredient' card can arbitrarily turn on and off by rolling the dice, right? Now a few more similar cards, how about eliminating such a bit?"

"Ah, no! That's the core element of fun!"

"No, still turning such things one by one by hand to calculate bothersome, right? Even scores alone but checking even turning on and off one by one not a light bulb what. Not even tearing the punch cards of the loom and using, and can't turn the motor with electricity either."

The words of simplifying the complex rules a bit more.

The arithmometer looks convenient, but in fact not at all.

Because implemented decimal not binary so if not familiar use itself impossible.

So people who can handle the arithmometer called ‘computer’ and separately employed.

Of course better than the abacus.

But why so quiet?

Turning the head the rest of the people except me and Miss Edith were holding their breath and staring at each other.

"W-wait a moment! Sir Durand, say the words just now again!"

Today why so many people shouting wait?

Anyway I chewed the lines I just said according to Mr. Edison's request.

"What words? Turning the motor with electricity?"

"No no, right in front of that!"

"Writing on punch cards?"

"T-that also important! Something just stuck in the brain with a 'pak'!"

"Turning the light bulb on and off...?"

"Correct exactly that part! Uuu!"

He frowned the face, scratched the head vigorously, and sighed deeply.

Then Mr. Tesla suddenly clapped hands with a 'clap'.

"Something strange then this game not only Boolean algebra but also some binary concept entered!"

"B-binary?!"

"Mr. Edison, didn't learn binary when learning mathematics at university?"

"Sorry, I self-studied... No degree."

"Ah, sorry. Forgot."

"But know binary. What relation does turning the light bulb on and off have with binary? I just thought whether there's a method to express the game's values in real time with the feeling of turning the light bulb on and off! Then intuitive, right!"

"Ah sorry. I must have mistaken."

"What to be sorry, ultimately if using binary can express numbers with only turning the light bulb on and off, right! Well mentioned!"

The old professor also seemed immersed in thought alone something.

"Electricity, turning the motor with electricity... Turning the motor and calculating... With turning on and off... Can one calculate by turning the motor and turning something on and off...? You guys, can't one calculate by turning the motor and turning something on and off?!"

Said but at this place three electrical engineering majors with wisdom transcending the era gathered.

4 inventors, 3 electrical engineering majors, 3 chemistry majors, 2 mathematics majors, 2 university professors.

"I once imagined an era where one can electrify the difference engine of Teacher Babbage I respect someday... Now seems exactly that time. How, you guys. Freely think of anything usable as a switch operating with electricity!"

"T-teacher, then how about trying my diode I brought once...?"

"Your vacuum tube?!"

"Yes, only the function of changing alternating current to direct current, but I thought whether this can be applied as a control device. Only alone better ideas don't come up..."

"Hmm, hmm."

Ah, this is this kind of flow, right?

On earth how such an idea connected from one round of board game unknown, but now I thought whether standing at a major turning point of history.

All that was again due to the butterfly effect I made.

The dishes I brought from the past gathered people, and the people gathered like that created synergy and created a new future.

In that process the refrigerator also transcended dozens of years of time and was implemented in 1901.

The cooking exposition I made opens in a form not in history, I take charge of the review chairman there, even the flow of Mr. Fleming bringing the unfinished wireless communication equipment ultimately for this place that feeling.

Of course might be my illusion.

Even the Earth writer doesn't write like this.

All matters started from the visit of one unknown inventor?

What needed to confirm was just one step.

Modest, but at least I who was a future person who transcended a hundred years of time clearly knew that one step these needed.

What to do? Looking at the flow even if I shut my mouth here these seem will catch a very fine clue and reach the conclusion.

If a future to reach anyway, time waste is what I dislike the most. And if worried about future change, already late due to all the things I did.

I sighed.

"Try adding one more electrode."

"Hmm...?"

"Electrode. Now the vacuum tube is 2 electrodes, right. If making 3 electrodes how not?"

"Uh... Uh... Uuu...?"

Honestly I have no science knowledge at all. Don't know how the vacuum tube was made, what the structure is, what the principle of changing alternating current to direct current is at all.

Tungsten filament? What's that on earth?

But as a modern person somehow naturally knew some things.

That was the fact that vacuum tubes have 2 electrodes, 3 electrodes, and 'magnetron' used in 'microwave ovens' electromagnetic wave generation vacuum tube, these three kinds.

Mentioning again my 'history of cooking' was honey content for YouTube view guarantee.

Just knowledge obtained while making content about the history of microwave ovens.

Vacuum tube 2 electrodes drop out in the very early, and use various vacuum tubes from 3 electrodes to 5 electrodes, the answer they want was in 3 electrodes.

And my very small hint, gave them a definite breakthrough like slightly poking a fully inflated balloon with a needle.

"3 electrodes! 3 electrodes! Correct! If adding one more electrode and applying negative voltage there might be able to use as a switch by blocking electrons heading to the anode!"

Stood up abruptly.

"Using the vacuum tube as a switch, and applying binary there, might be able to make an electric calculator driven only by electricity! And if enlarging that scale enormously..."

"Larger digit operations will become possible, right."

"Correct! The dreamed 17 digit or more operations might be done in real time! If using that calculator can solve even Hilbert's 23 problems! Fleming, you said wireless communication research stopped due to patent right problem, right? Help this in the remaining time! We'll make an electric calculator with our power!"

Hilbert's 23 problems.

Knew because quite noisy in the newspaper.

Britain and Germany fiercely fought until 1900 over who the discoverer of calculus was. Britain put forward Isaac Newton, Germany Leibniz.

Honestly whoever discovered whatever, but a national pride problem so people just not knowing anything and chattered Newton is the best that remembered.

Anyway because fighting too much made something called the World Congress of Mathematicians saying let's reconcile and go to a developed future, and what thrown there saying stop fighting ahead and solve this was exactly those 23 problems.

And now all scholars of the world are in fierce battle to solve those problems. Sufficient motivation even for the aged Baron Kelvin.

He raised tremendous last flames from both eyes.

"And Lady Edith, your this excellent Edward Sandwich Game gave us a very big inspiration."

"Yes?! Me?!"

"The Boolean algebra entered in that game, binary, the newly designed 3 electrode vacuum tube, and if utilizing the punch cards Sir Durand just said as a storage device..."

Chattered among themselves and soon reached the conclusion.

Well no need to interfere separately.

Really nothing more I can do.

The limit was throwing hints based on names attached in the original history.

"No more need for human computers. Because people will call that device computer instead."

"Computer! Correct! That machine is exactly the computer! If the research succeeds!"

Mr. Tesla nodded.

"If solving the secret of the refrigeration device, we will soon face the world of electric automatic computers."

November 28, 1901, from the Edward Sandwich Game a new electric calculation device, computer birth.

Wireless communication device, temporary research suspension.

The third technology tree, opening—.