Chapter 13: Chapter 11: Just an old microwave

-Alan POV-

If we want to start an industrial revolution in this other world, we need to take off from the famously known: industrial revolution.

The spark that began everything, according to history books, was a bunch of different causes: the emergence of capitalism, European imperialism, efforts to mine coal, and the effects of the Agricultural Revolution.

As I said, a bunch of social-technological advancements flew out altogether in the revolution. But here the situation is completely different: I already know the blueprints of the needed machinery. The only two real problems are the mining efforts and the lack of 'European imperialism', so basically:

1. I haven't been able to spot iron or any other useful mineral at this moment. Because yes, there are a lot of minerals that can be spotted in the same soil, without requiring a mine.
2. The industrial revolution was based on a mass-production system, so I need to be extremely efficient, otherwise, I will be better off forgetting about acquiring modern weapons anytime soon. And even then, I alone won't be able to advance that much, given that entire production lines are needed to create nowadays products.

Well, these difficulties cannot be solved at this stage, so I will be better off investing my time in something achievable: furnaces.

Remember the clay? It's completely dried by now. And besides allowing Hikari and me to drink water whenever we wanted without traveling what seemed an interminable amount of time, it also gave us a new tool to build more sturdy, solid things. If one uses the same techniques, instead of cutlery, to create a cylinder with a hole in its center, and include a lower and upper exit, that would make a basic primitive furnace possible.

It is needed to process the future metal (I hope we find it) and enter the modern age because, without metal, the industrial revolution is a synonym for a bad joke.

Later I will also have to include a manual pump made with wood and its bark, without it, a cat and a human can't melt any kind of metal, much less iron. At the same time, it is also true that the metal mustn't be 'melted' but only hot enough to be able to manipulate it with a hammer and axe.

Well, let's set up the stage for now.

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After transporting more clay using the already created clay, what a paradox, huh? I managed to set up the furnace's basic structure. I also used this chance to glue together the last decoration points our cave was missing.

Now, the pump. It consists of three parts:

1. The main body must be sealed without mistakes (it will lose power if it isn't).
2. The pump handle is the intractable part of the pump. If you cover it with leaves, you manage to reduce its friction against the wall of the main body.
3. And the connector between the furnace and the pump output

Please, just skip forward.

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*Mreow...*

Look, I know I always say the same, and it might be turning monotone, but I did not expect this to be so hard!

To build the handle and connector of the pump, I found no trouble. But when it came to the main body outside, it was impossible. The process was similar to the one, one might use when knitting. But I as always wasn't experienced in doing so.

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So there I was, just sweating like crazy while trying to join together a pair of fibers coming from wood bark.

Eventually, it was done, and it worked as expected.

Now then...

"There is a popular belief that coal is mandatory as a furnace fuel, but that ain't true."

Yes, coal was a very efficient fuel, but by using the same method I used with the fireplace you could do the same. The ashes of the burnt wood were always an incredible source of heat, so I must not worry about finding this pitch-black thing.

"The only thing I must worry about is, well, minerals..."

Yes, now that I finished the furnace I needed to find metal ores, process them, and start the repetitive protocol of heating them, molding them, and heating them again until they took the right shape.

Still, we closed the doors for today, and went to sleep, with everything going on, it was already nighttime.

The clay plates and cutlery weren't very useful with the apples, I already started thinking of them as boring, but it made the dinner more human. At least I felt I gained back some dignity.

And talking about food, I already tried every combination possible with water + fire + apples. EVERYTHING. Inevitable of course, given that I am eating apples three times a day, as the main, second, and dessert dish.

 Well, the doctor will surely stay away from me now, right?

*Haaah* ...I am probably going insane.

Well, let's go to sleep for now.

"See you in the morning Hikari"

*Mreow!*

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