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A BIG GUN

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 2, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 6.

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A BIG GUN.

The nations are making great preparations for the destruction of human life and property. Herr Krupp, of Germany, is a very noted manufacturer of heavy artillery guns. He is now about completing a steel gun, weighing eighty tons. The calibre is about sixteen inches; the ball weighs 1650 pounds, and the powder charge 396 pounds. The cost of the gun, exclusive of the carriage, is $100,000. The Russians have purchased the great Krupp gun that was on exhibition last year at the Centennial. Mr. Krupp is making one like it for the Turks.
He has constructed plans for a 124-ton steel breech-loader, with a calibre of over eighteen inches, and throwing a shot weighing a ton, having a charge of five hundred pounds of powder. The estimated cost is $167,000, besides the carriage, which is to weigh about sixty-two tons.—Crisis.