KRUPP'S BIG GUN | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 18, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 45.

KRUPP'S BIG GUN.

ONE of the most interesting exhibits at the Chicago Exposition is a cannon made at the famous Krupp Works in Germany. It is forty-seven feet long, has a sixteen and one-half inch bore, and is five feet through at its largest part, and fires a shell weighing two thousand two hundred pounds. This cannon is a very different affair from the guns with which all the battles the world ever saw were fought. It is intended for forts, and could not be used anywhere else, as the discharge of such a gun would ruin a man of war, and would be about as useless a piece of artillery as ever played havoc with its friends on a battle-field. It is handled by machinery, and the derrick-like shears with which it is moved about like a pistol in the hands of a cowboy, is one hundred feet tall.—N. Y. World.