Chapter 233 Legend

Following Professor Winifred out of the banquet hall, before Wu Bin could ask what he wanted to see him for, Professor Winifred introduced a burly middle-aged man to him and said: "This is Angus Professor, our chief engineer for exploring Mars at NASA."

"Hello, young Chinese scholar." Angus extended his right hand to Wu Bin.

Wu Bin was stunned for a moment when he heard this name. He always felt that he had heard it somewhere before, but he thought that foreigners' names were basically the same, so without thinking too much, he stretched out his hand and shook his hand.

"Hello, Professor Angus."

After shaking hands, Professor Angus said: "I read your paper on solar sails twice. It was very exciting, and I found that you are very good at using mathematical and physical tools to solve practical problems, which is rare."

Wu Bin: "Actually, the modeling and programming were completed by my two teammates. I just showed their results."

After listening to Wu Bin's words, Professor Angus and Professor Winifred looked at each other and smiled, "It seems that you are very humble." Then I will introduce myself again, "My full name is Angus Dennis. The application of graphene to space shuttles and space stations has been discussed.”

"Oh!! It's you!"

Now Wu Bin remembered that the professor had talked to him after he published the paper "Graphene-Filled Rubber Nanocomposites".

In fact, Wu Bin published this paper across fields. During that time, he was stuck on a bottleneck in the conductivity of graphene, and because he was afraid that his path would become narrower, he decided to change his mind. He soon remembered Cai The teacher originally told him about engines and aerospace science.

Wu Bin did it as soon as he thought of it, so he attended a few lectures on aerospace materials taught by Professor Shi. After listening to it, he suddenly had an idea. In space, materials will experience changes from extremely high temperatures to extremely low temperatures, which will cause materials such as rubber to expand and contract. , subsequently losing strength.

But if graphene can take advantage of its high-temperature resistance, this will no longer be a problem, so that paper was finally born.

"Have you applied for a patent?" Professor Angus asked Wu Bin.

"Well, the professor at the school has arranged it for me."

The concept of applying for patents was instilled in him by Professor Liu Yubo, who also made Wu Bin understand that applying for patents is not only for finished products, but also for invention patents, utility model patents, design patents, technology patents, etc. Can apply for a patent.

As for the definition of academic papers, the patent law has changed again and again. The current official provisions are:

To put it simply, the application content should include discoveries, inventions, creations, and advances, rather than repeating, imitating, or plagiarizing the work of predecessors.

However, the concept of invention and creation is too vague. Some people just dare to apply for a meaningless molecular structure, which creates a huge workload for the patent office.

From proposal to approval, it needs to go through a series of complex procedures such as one communication, one reply, intermediate communication, intermediate reply, etc. Generally, each laboratory will have a dedicated person responsible for this.

Of course, making it so complicated is also because of the importance of patents in this century. It represents the hard power of a company or a research institute.

For example, the research institutions under AT&T, a large telecommunications company in the United States, owned hundreds of thousands of patented technologies and produced a large number of Nobel Prize winners.

However, AT&T, which was so strong, eventually went downhill. There are many reasons for this, but it also means that even if you have a lot of money in your family, but you are unwilling to adapt to the times and insist on going against the will, Most likely you still have to explain.

Professor Angus, who shook hands with Wu Bin again as if they were acquainted with each other again, smiled and said: "So don't hide it. I believe your teammates also have certain abilities, but it is still too easy for whoever is the main force in the team." Distinguished."

"Actually, they really..."

Hearing that Wu Bin wanted to defend himself, Professor Angus immediately waved his hand and said, "Okay, this is not the focus of what we are going to talk about today. I just asked you to come out because I was curious about something." After that, he looked at Wu Bin's Eyes: "Are you interested in aerospace?"

Wu Bin: "Yes, I have always been curious about astronomy."

After hearing this, Professor Angus immediately said: "Then you should come to MIT for graduate school. MIT's aerospace engineering department is definitely the best in the world."

After hearing this, Wu Bin couldn't help but laugh a few times and said, "The University of California said the same thing."

He had revealed his interest in astronomy when chatting with Professor Brad before, and Professor Brad immediately told him a story.

It is said that there was a dormitory at the California Institute of Technology in the late 1930s. There were five young guys in the dormitory who were very capable of making trouble. They conducted rocket experiments in the dormitory all day long and called themselves "Rocket Boys".

But if you often walk by the river, your shoes will never get wet.

Rocket experiments are not just a game, they must be extremely dangerous. Once their fuel experiment failed, causing an explosion and fire in the dormitory building, but fortunately there were no casualties.

But the school really couldn't stand these "dangerous elements" and kicked them all out of the dormitory.

However, several "Rocket boys" had no intention of giving up. They quickly organized a group of like-minded friends and went straight to the desolate San Gabriel Valley in Los Angeles to continue experiments in an abandoned stinking ditch.

During the experiment, accidents such as fires in oxygen supply pipes and fuel explosions often occur, but these people are all experienced in escaping, so they have been experimenting in such a rough experimental environment for so long without any casualties.

And their former classmates gave them a new title after hearing the news.

"Suicide Club"

In the end, God did not let down these persistent "Rocket boys". After three months of various tests, they finally built a rocket that would not self-destruct.

This news quickly spread back to the ears of Professor von Karman, the master of fluid dynamics at Caltech at the time. In addition to being surprised that these boys were not dead, he also felt that they were teachable, so he used his power to kill these boys. All of them were recalled to school and personally taught them the necessary knowledge of aerospace.

This "suicide club" has since been officially renamed "Caltech Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory"

With official support, these "Rocket boys" began to conduct various experiments without any scruples, and soon they had a new idea.

Tying a rocket to a propeller plane would allow the plane to lift off faster. With this idea, they received two grants totaling $11,000. Finally, in 1941, the jet aircraft experiment Be successful.

And in this legendary story, the most important protagonists are of course the five original "Rocket boys"

They are the professional aerodynamics master [Frank Marriner], the self-taught genius chemist [Jack Parsons], the super genius mechanic known as the brain of the future [Ed Foreman], who is proficient in fluids The double genius of mechanics and rigid body mechanics [Jeffrey Walker].

And the most powerful academic god in China who is known as the father of Chinese rockets, the father of missiles, the founder of manned spaceflight, and a world-renowned strategic scientist!

Qian Xuesen!