The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 376
e worked under powerful steam hammers. The suc-cess, or rather the superiority of the Krupp guns overthe artillery in use by the French, was shown during theFranco-Prussian war, when they played a most import-ant part in the many victories which the Prussians ob-tained over their enemy Alfred Krupp… … KKUPPS WORKS AT ESSEN. 373 one of wMch was an attempt to improve the qualityof the steel with which he made his instruments. Hedied at forty, leaving all his business to his son, thenonly a lad of fifteen. At that time, Essen was a place ofsome eighteen thousand inhabitants; now the city ofEssen…
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