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"Your majesty, so these 'watches' and alarm clocks would be able to tell the time?

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"Hmhm... they will!

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nTim was really mind blown by the fact that such a thing could even exist.

nSometimes, he felt like Landon wasn't human.

nNo no no... scratch that!

nMost of the time, he felt like Landon was a God in human skin.

nThe more he read the notebook in his hand, the more fidgety he became.

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"Your majesty, will we sell these goods out of Baymard in future?

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"Yes... these ones will be sold out, since they work on Batteries.

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nThe concept of Batteries, wasn't new to Tim and a lot of workers within his industry.

nThe only battery that existed in Baymard right now, was the one for heavy machines.

nThese ones consisted of sulfuric acid solution, and several flat plates that acted as galvanic cells in series.

nGranted when they made their first battery ever, it wasn't as well done as those ones back on earth.... but it still got the job done either way.

nThe only problem was that those ones didn't last as long as those ones back on earth.

nWhen they made their first battery, its outer box was made of metal... and some of the plates were done unevenly.

nBut once better tools and plastic came into the picture, Landon switched it up and modified several outer components once again.

nAll in all, these batteries were constantly improved upon monthly.

nFor wrist watches, tiny 'coin' or 'button' sized batteries were ideal for them.

nAnd for wall clocks and alarm clocks, the Batteries needed to be like the ordinary batteries made back on earth.

nLandon was talking about the ''A', AA', 'AAA' battery types and so on.

nTo make batteries, one needed special materials and chemicals that would aid in the transfer of electricity.

nThere needed to be a cathode, anode, and a fluid or material that would aid in electrical flow.

nLandon was sure that the people outside Baymard, wouldn't be able to come up with the exact components and chemical solutions required for battery production.... without guidance.

nSo why should he be worried?

nEven if they made the other components of the watches and put them together, the watche's hands wouldn't tick without a battery.

nTake for example Lithium batteries.

nHe had already planned on extracting Lithium from 'Lithium Feldspar rocks' underground the caves, and use them to make ordinary batteries as well as coin batteries.

nLithium was the core drive within these types of batteries.

nAnd if people didn't know how to extract it from ores and rocks, how were they suppose to make these batteries?

nPlus other places didn't have plastic or rubber, to make the outer frames for wall clocks... as well as alarm clocks.

nSo there was essentially nothing for him to worry about.

nOnce Baymard officially opened up to the public in July, these items would be exported to various regions around Hertfilia.

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"And your majesty, this photocopying machine is supposed to lessen the burden within the Printing Industry?

nIf it does what you say it can do, then the workers would probably celebrate in your honor!

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"Was it that bad?

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"Your majesty, you have no idea!

nWe have a massive waitlist from all the workplaces already.

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nWell, Landon could understand their joy as well.

nTo put it simply, when any workplace needed to make copies of any document, they would immediately place orders with the printing... do that their copies could made.

nThis industry handled school papers, reports, books, I.D cards, driving licenses, and other important documents around Baymard.

nSo if the hospital needed 20 copies of a particular document, the workers within the printing department would have to get it done for them.

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nOf course the hospital would have to pay for these services as well.

nAnd all these printing orders had put everyone around Baymard on a waiting list, which greatly slowed down development and productivity.

nHence Landon had wanted to make photocopying machines A.S.A.P.

nFirstly, all industry and workplace documents should be photocopied within those particular workplaces.

nFor security reasons, it wasn't proper to have confidential documents leave those workplaces.

nAnd secondly, this would greatly improve productivity and efficiency around Baymard.

nEveryone wouldn't need to run up and down the place, as they could just make several copies of multiple documents within their offices or workplaces.

nAnd the printing Press could finally focus on their numerous jobs, like printing books, I.D cards, labels on several company boxes, plastic bags, clothes and so on.

nPlus having a photocopying machine will also be good for the Landport and banks in future.

nAny visitor or customer's document that needed several copies, could be done within those establishments... rather than running back and forth, and keeping these people waiting.

nNow focusing on the machines themselves, the interior part consisted of 5 main components within them: a light bulb, a photosensitive drum, 2 rollers, a toner, and a conveyor belt for loading the paper.

nBaymard already had conveyor belts... as they were previously manufactured at the start of October.

nAnd of course light bulbs and rollers already existed as well.

nSo that just left Landon with the toner and the photosensitive drums to make, which weren't hard to do.

nAnyway the machine worked like so:

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/her document upside down and presses the start key, an intense beam of light (from the bulb).....flashes onto the document.

nThis light then gets reflected towards the photosensitive drum.

nNow here's where the magic really happens.

nThis drum is electrostatically charged by a high voltage wire.. as well as coated with a photosensitive chemical (selenium).

nSince Selenium is a semiconductor... that would mean that it would act as an insulator in dark areas, as well as conduct electricity when light falls on it.

nBottom line, when the light gets reflected off the document..... it reaches the photo-conductive drum, and gets its ions displaced.

nAs negative charges make an electrical shadow, the drum begins to rotate.

nAnd finally, this negatively charged shadow moves towards a positively charged toner.

nNegative and positive... you get the picture.

nBoth charges stick to each other, and an inked image of that document is formed within the charges.

nThen a new sheet of paper is feed into the hopper of the photocopying machine.

nThe hopper carries the paper on a conveyor belt upwards, and moves towards the drum and the toner.

nThe charges drop onto the new sheet of paper, and the document is finally photocopied.

nAs the photocopied paper makes its way out of the machine, it will pass through 2 hot rollers.

nThese rollers aid in fusing the toner particles onto the paper permanently, by inserted heat and pressure onto it.

nThe whole process involved light, reflection, conductivity and ions.

nWell anyway, this machine will have an

"On' and 'Off' button on it.... and would work electrically, and steam powered (for those within buildings that don't have electricity).

nA photocopying machine doesn't necessarily need the internet... it wasn't a printer.

nAlso, Landon had decided to add several other buttons at the corners of the photocopying machine.

nKind of like a keypad.

nIf they wanted to make 10 copies, they just had to tap '1' and '0' keys.. and then press 'Start'.

nWell... with this, he decided to start teaching the workers a little bit about computer engineering as well.

nUp next Landon Wanted to focus on Radios.

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