I, transformed into a vampire girl, sparked the Industrial Revolution.

Chapter 160 The Dawn of Automation

"Yes, replace that component, that's correct."

At the Imellan National Academy of Sciences' Automation and Computer Laboratory, dozens of lab technicians in white coats are working on their tasks.

For Amerlane, the computer is a tangible vision at present. From the abacus and the first slide rule to the hand-cranked mechanical and electromechanical computers that are now in widespread use, Amerlane is walking on the dawn of computing.

The papers released by the Ministry of Truth piled up in the laboratory's reading room. Each of these materials was classified as Level 3 or higher. For the sake of Amelansi and for the future of civilization, the development of computers was necessary.

The huge table was covered with pencils, erasers, and blueprints. A demon entered an equation into a mechanical computer and turned a handle, causing the computer, which could output multiplication, to make a clicking sound.

The calculation results were output, the impeller rotated to output the results, the calculator wrote the calculation results on paper, and then the next round of calculation began.

This "computing factory" is like a real factory, except that its products are a series of parameters.

"Send it to the electrical and computing department."

An experimenter handed a bundle of papers to a female employee in the corner. The papers were stuffed into a metal tube and then inserted into a pipe by a pair of hands.

The American Academy of Sciences Trian Branch possesses the world's most advanced logistics delivery system—the pneumatic transport pipeline. This massive, pipe-connected system can transport objects to various laboratories and departments via gas, eliminating the need for postmen to run around.

"Hello? This is Amelanxi K12, please transfer to K11."

As a classified unit, the Trian branch of the American Academy of Sciences in America has an independent telephone exchange system to minimize the risk of eavesdropping.

"Ah, hello, Dean Sainz, yes, the results are in,"

In Amelancy, automation was seen as the perfect future, and the first articles about automation came from science fiction. In Amelancy's literary market, several science fiction novels written by Herbert Verne, a writer within the Visionaries, first expanded the genre of the novel.

Word of the future of automated machines is spreading among people. Children are beginning to imagine traveling around the world in giant submarines, while young people are imagining a future where automated robots help them with their work.

Automation doesn't appear out of thin air; for the scientific community at Imellane, this phrase is complex and vast.

Automation is predicated on industrialization and informatization. Amerlane is still undergoing industrialization today. Although the North is already a developed industrial society, the South is still in the early stages of industrialization.

For this world, the conditions for informatization are not lacking. After the development of the magic industry, the cost of informatization has been reduced to the naked eye. Using magic optical fibers can not only transmit information, but also magic signals.

And that top-secret device is now nearing completion.

"Machine 103 has completed testing, Ms. Dean, but the failure rate is very high."

Inside a secret laboratory, several dusty-looking lab technicians sat in their seats, halogen lamps illuminating the room, and the heat from the machines forced them to turn on the air conditioning to cool it down.

"How's the speed?"

"Madam, it performs 100 additions and subtractions per second and 3000 multiplications per second, but it malfunctions on average every 50,000 calculations... The problem with the Magic Crystal transistor is still very serious."

Although the scientific community in Amelanxi has demonstrated the ability to manufacture transistors, if they were to be manufactured using magical theories, the failure rate would likely be no lower than that of electronic triodes.

The manufacturing of silicon transistors is probably still only possible in the laboratory, and mass production is still a long way off. While computer No. 103 was running, the transistor research team next door was working day and night to ask the Ministry of Industry for better equipment.

Single crystal furnaces, grinding mills, inner circle cutting machines, chamfering machines, polishing machines, silicon wafer cleaning machines, horizontal furnaces, and even lithography machines—the Imellan Industrial Department has approved projects, but it's unclear when they'll actually be delivered to them. Currently, the few silicon transistors in the laboratory are all handmade.

"Miss, Ms. Sainz is calling you..."

The call goes to the Trian Red House, which is still Alice and Alicia's home. As part of Alicia's retirement life, Alicia is treating Alice like a dress-up doll.

"Okay! I understand."

Alicia dressed Alice in a witch's black gown and put a wizard's hat on her head, while Alice held a staff in her hand.

Wow, this is pretty good too!

"My mother treats me like a dress-up doll..."

"Well~ after all, Alice's body is so perfect, isn't it~ Alright, little Alice, we've confiscated your clothes. Wear this to work, shall we?"

"Tsk."

Alice's new suit was lying to one side, and Alicia was giving her a subtle look that seemed to say: Dress cutely!

Alice sighed. Raffis was standing by, holding a tray with a telephone, waiting for Alice. Alice picked up the receiver, and it was Sainz's voice on the other end.

"Oh? Is this Director Sainz?"

"Yes, Miss Alice, um... Unit 103 has successfully completed its trial run."

"Ah! That's great! Well done, Director, and your team too... By the way, can that thing be mass-produced?"

"You mean mass production...?"

"Ah, not the kind where we build hundreds or thousands of units. Of course, that would be great if we could, umm... we just want to build a few more and establish computing centers in the south and north, so that various departments and laboratories can reserve them..."

Since computers cannot be mass-produced at present, we could set up several computing centers and have various departments bring their data for centralized computing, which would also be a viable approach.

"Ah, good idea, it seems like it might be feasible. Of course, the 103rd machine still needs to stay with us."

“Of course…of course, Director Sainz, if I remember correctly, your academy has the most mechanical and electric computers…”

Alice nodded and said that the electronic general-purpose computer was undoubtedly a great invention. For Alice, the development of computer technology had once driven a revolution in the world.

Technological innovations surrounding electronic computers will usher in the next era. She put down the phone and saw herself in the mirror, dressed in an ancient witch's attire, but holding a modern version of the wand.

What Alicia handed her wasn't a prop; she disassembled the metal staff, revealing a magical circuit inside.

"Is this the real thing?"

"Of course~ Vampires can use it too?"