Chapter 391 Engineers-In-Training

Entering the massive room which they were all too familiar with..... they immediately found a seat and calmly looked at Landon.
This was one of the rooms that had been used to create the light bulb... and even the Walkie Talkies in, so all of them already knew the drill once they stepped into the room.
It would be better to describe the place as a lab.... with several rows of slabs and chairs all positioned to give everyone working space to do their thing.
On the sides of the room, one would find cupboards filled with all sorts of tools within them.
And just at the back of the room, there was even a smelting room, as well as a freezer for storing chemicals that needed to be cooled within them.
In essence, the place was a true workshop for them.
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"What if I told you all that, unlike the walkie talkies that allow you to speak to one person at a time..... this new Landline system could actually allow one to speak with more than one person instead?
And what if I told you that these landlines would be able to record voice tones as well (Voicemail)?"
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Eh?
The lecture had begun, and the more Landon spoke..... the more everyone's face began astonished.
How is this even possible?
The more they listened, the more excited they became.
Landon looked at them and smiled, while Tim brought in an unravelled box.
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Over the past few days, during the recruitment process.... Tim, Landon and the other 2 supervisors had made the first 34 landlines from scratch.
Of course, they hadn't shelled it up yet with plastic covering... as they wanted to let these engineers see the inside works of the landline.
One could only see metal parts and wires when looking at it.
It was like looking at the skeleton of these landlines.
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As for what type of Land phone Landon had chosen to make..... one could say that he had chosen to go with the main office types that were made in the 80s back on earth.
The ones with the long cords, large number pads..... and so on.
In movies, one would see them in all sorts of designs.
There were some that were designed in a pink Barbie-like way, while others were like Garfield and so on.
And when buying these phones, the buyers could choose for the 'Party line' option.... for those with little children in their homes.
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With party lines, there was no privacy ..... as everyone in the house could listen to a call from any phone within the same house.
If one had crazy teenagers who planned to sneak out of the house or even skip school with their friends... this would be the option for them.
This was in a way, a parental monitoring line.
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Anyway, for now... Landon had decided to make landlines with cords, as he felt like the cordless ones were meant for Baymard in the next few years and not for right now.
And just around the dialling area, one would find 3 buttons there.
▪One allowed a person to put another person on hold
▪Another allowed a person to record their own voicemail, change their voicemail or listen to their voicemails... by clicking the button in combination with other numbers.
One could press the button, followed by the number button 1, for recording their voicemails.... and so on.
▪\u0026 the last one allowed a person to dial in another number again.... so as to speak to 2 people at once.
For now, the maximum people allowed to be on a single call would be 3.
So if 2 people were already on the line talking to each other.... one of them to press that button, dial-in another friend's number and have their little chitchat excitedly.
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Immediately, Tim placed these landlines on each long long table.... which had a total of 10 people on them.
And since they were 150 engineers... that meant that they only occupied 15 table rows within the massive workshop.
Each table was to get 2 landlines.... so that they could connect them to one another and better observe them more.
With 34 landlines available..... of course, 30 were placed in front of the engineers, while Tim kept the remaining 4 at the front of the workshop for himself and Landon to use.
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"Alright..... can anyone give an estimated guess as to what you think would be the main fundamental part of these Landlines?
And when you answer a question, please start by introducing yourselves.... so that everyone else can know who you are as well."
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One should know that just from this last spontaneous mission from the system..... Lucius and the rest had brought in thousands of slaves in just a few months ago.
And the population had immediately jumped to 147,000 people within it.
So even though these engineers-in-training had all been working for a while as engineers here... one had to know that presently, there were over 60,000 engineers-in-training within the lower region.
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In short, the entire lower region was filled mostly with engineers.
There were even Agricultural engineers, Automotive engineers, biomedical, marine, civil mechanical, geotechnical, chemical, electrical, mechanical, quality engineers.... and the list went on.
So for sure, the chances of them knowing each other were really slim.
Hence an introduction was in order.
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"So what do you all think are the major parts to these landlines?...
Ah.. yes, you!"
"Your majes.....erm.... Supervisor Landon, my name is Louis Mord and I'm an electrical-engineer-in training.
Just like the Walkie Talkies... it should have a loudspeaker, through which we can hear the next person on the other Walkie.... no!... the other landline."
"Correct..... its principle is indeed very similar to the Walkie Talkies.
So..... what else would be required for these landlines to function properly?"
Now.... almost everyone raised their hands up high, as they were now very much confident in their answers.
"A microphone to pick up our voices when we answer."
"Correct!"
"It needs to create radio waves to send out the signal."
"Wrong!!"
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Everyone was confused as to the last question.
If it didn't use radio waves to send out the signals.... then how else were they supposed to make these landlines?
They couldn't help but frown a bit.... as no matter how hard they thought, they still couldn't see any other way of sending out message signals.
'Your majesty are you sure?'
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