KRUPP'S WORKS | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 10, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 10.

KRUPP'S WORKS.

THE Krupp works at Essen, Prussia, cover 500 acres, and 20,000 men are employed there. Mr. Krupp owns 547 iron mines in Germany, 4 sea steamers, 42 miles of railway, 28 locomotives, 883 cars, 69 horses, 101 wagons, etc. About one-third of the works of Krupp are devoted to the manufacture of cannon, etc. France cannot obtain even one of Krupp's guns. Krupp says that he will not look at an order from England that amounts to less than $4,860,000. Turkey has ordered $3,500,000 worth. A monster gun was recently shipped from these works for Italy. It weighs 118 tons, and is to be mounted on an iron-clad guarding the harbor of Spezia.

The 100-ton steel guns of Krupp of Prussia and Armstrong of England are forty feet in length and six feet in diameter at the base. They carry projectiles that are four feet long and seventeen inches in diameter, weighing 2,200 pounds each. To hurl one of these enormous projectiles over 800 pounds of powder are used. These awful instruments of destruction have a velocity of a mile in three seconds, and they can be sent nine miles. At a distance of over half a mile these projectiles can penetrate a mass of iron that is twenty-four inches thick, twenty-four feet of concrete masonry, or seventy-five feet of earth.—Selected.