I Created Scientific Magic

Chapter 74: Chapter 66: Lydia the “Skillful Hands

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A hand-cranked fan, moving miniature steamships, wooden flying wings, and many other intricately made carriage, and house models to scale, Lynn even saw a prototype of a water wheel in the center of the workshop.

This was a round wooden wheel with a diameter of around 1 meter, from the water tank above the workshop, a continuous stream of water flowed down, driving the wheel to rotate ceaselessly, and at the same time turning the giant fan in front of it slowly, providing a cool breeze for the visitors entering the workshop.

Truly a waste of good material…

Lynn shook his head; this device could be used for irrigating fields or even generating electricity with no problem, but Lydia only thought of using it to power a fan.

Seeing Lynn shake his head and sigh, Darren’s heart suddenly leapt to his throat. Although Lydia’s toys were quite interesting, they definitely couldn’t compare with the alchemical tools of the wizards.

Fortunately, Lynn had no intention of keeping them in suspense and spoke up directly.

“I’m not here to buy anything this time, but rather to ask you to make something according to a blueprint.”

While saying this, Lynn picked up the model of the steamship and looked at it a few times. The model was exquisitely made, almost a perfect scale replica with every detail accounted for.

From the chimney to the cabin and then to the hull, it was exactly like the steamships he had seen on the sea, except there was an extra rope at the back of the cabin. Pulling it could drive the propeller below to start turning.

Almost instantly, Lynn guessed the principle behind it and his lips curved into a smile. He spoke up again.

“I heard that Lydia’s hands are very skillful, capable of creating objects without a single discrepancy according to the specs. Is that right?” n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

“Of course, I dare say that in this Yiyeta Harbor, no one’s craftsmanship surpasses Lydia’s!” Darren spoke with great confidence. Even many great wizards highly praised Lydia’s creations, which earned her the title of “Skillful Hands.”

“Is she in the workshop now?” Lynn put the model aside. “I want to see for myself if she can meet my requirements.”

“No problem, Lydia is busy in the backyard right now… I’ll take you to find her!” Darren leapt swiftly off his stool, hung up the ‘resting’ sign, and then opened the workshop’s backyard door.

Lynn followed Darren in and immediately saw the large flying machine that he had seen before; the halfling girl Lydia was standing underneath it, holding a hammer half the length of her body, pounding several thick nails into the wings of the flying machine.

After completing this, Lydia wiped the sweat from her forehead, and then pulled on the wing forcefully. The joint was very sturdy, but the stability was still lacking, which is why some parts of the flying machine directly fell apart after landing.

The halfling girl hadn’t noticed the two arrivals, frowning slightly, her robes already covered in dirt and grime, but she didn’t care, her mind entirely occupied with how to improve the flying machine.

At that moment, Lynn’s voice suddenly sounded.

“If a quadrilateral isn’t stable enough, why not try adding a horizontal bar at the diagonally opposite angles, and turn it into two triangular structures?”

Lydia was taken aback for a moment, then immediately turned around and noticed Darren and Lynn standing by her side.

“Wizard, sir?” The halfling girl called out, uncertain, quickly recognizing Lynn whom she had a brief encounter with before in the square.

“You can try it out first!” Lynn pointed at the wing of the flying machine, smiling as he spoke.

Lydia was not daunted; she immediately rolled up her sleeves, grasped a suitably sized wooden board with both hands, placed it at the diagonally opposite sides of the wings, and then picked up the hammer and nails, hammering away non-stop.

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Such great strength…

Lynn was quite astonished to see Lydia, a girl of no more than 1.3 meters tall, easily lifting a wooden plank that was possibly even larger than herself. Indeed, the rumors about the natural strength of half-humans were not exaggerated.

This doesn’t comply with biology at all… Lynn looked at the half-human girl’s arms, which could only be reluctantly considered “sturdy,” and couldn’t help but comment inwardly. He then directed her to reinforce the overall structure of the flying machine by constructing support struts and removed many unnecessary parts to reduce the weight of the machine itself.

Darren also hurried over to help, bustling about for a while until the flying machine looked completely revitalized. Its broad wings were connected to the fuselage in a triangular formation. Lydia placed her hands on the wings and gave them a few vigorous shakes, then hammered them without causing even the slightest deformation.

“This is simply… amazing!” The joy on Lydia’s face was almost spilling over, and then she turned to Lynn, her expression filled with confusion as she asked, “But why is this so?”

While making those models on other days, she also noticed this difference, but she hadn’t figured out why it was so.

“Because the three sides of a triangle are interconnected, forming a very stable structure, you just need to do a force analysis to understand…” While speaking, Lynn took a few wooden sticks, assembled them into triangles, quadrilaterals, and pentagons, and then tugged on each side and corner to demonstrate the changes in the force acting on these polygons.

Lydia sat on the wing of the flying machine, her bright eyes fixed on the sticks in Lynn’s hand, like a student in a lecture, momentarily forgetting that it was only their second meeting.

However, the course delivered by Lynn was not so easy to grasp. Lydia could understand a bit when he demonstrated with the sticks, but when he later explained the concepts of center of mass, air resistance, and friction, she started to feel lost in the fog.

She only came to two conclusions.

First, the wizard in front of her was very knowledgeable, understanding a great many things. Second, whether the flying machine could take off, might have something to do with these forces…

After talking for a while, Lynn smacked his lips. The half-human girl immediately got the hint, jumped down from the wing, and ran into the room. She returned with a water jug, poured a glass of water, and handed it to Lynn. Then with hopeful eyes, she asked.

“So, Wizard, can this flying machine take off now?”

“If you just want to stay up in the air a while longer, then there’s no problem, but if you’re talking about freely soaring through the sky, I’m afraid that’s not possible!” Lynn shook his head, “This flying machine’s power is too weak, and moreover, its structural design does not really comply with fluid mechanics…”

The half-human girl looked utterly baffled; she could barely understand “power,” but what was fluid mechanics?

In just half an hour, she heard many high-end terms that were new to her, leaving Lydia feeling like a little cat that had seen a fluffy ball but couldn’t quite catch it, looking pitiful.

“Wizard?” Darren on the side was somewhat worried and couldn’t help but interject. He, too, wanted to learn these things, but he understood one truth: in Wizard Land, all knowledge is precious!

Lynn seemed to come around just then, his lips curving into a smile. “Sorry, that’s a professional habit…”

“I haven’t introduced myself yet; my name is Lynn, and I’m the newly appointed professor of Advanced Mathematics at Yiyeta Academy!”

“Is that the same Advanced Mathematics professor who on the first day of class made a student faint?” Darren exclaimed.

Lynn’s mouth twitched slightly, and he looked at Darren with an expression that was extremely ‘genial’.

If you can’t speak well, then it’s best you keep your mouth shut!

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