The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-12-28
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In 1864, the king OF Prussia offered
him a title. But Krupp refused ii.
In the meantime Krupp as Il gum
maker had not been idle. In 1855 he
had exhibited at Paris twelve pound
shell gun which attracted so much
attention from the French govern
ment that trials of the gun had been
held at their request, trials which
.krupp attended in person. But, al
though the superiority to the French
guns of the day were amply proved.
Krupp was given no orders. Had
France in the following decade OBJ
tanned at least portion of It's heavy
ordnance from krupp and so been
enabled TO keep up with his improve
pents, the story of 1870 might have
been different.
II was in the early days of our civil
war that Krupp reyolutlonized big
gun making Had either side known
of and adopted his inventions how
quickly would the war have closed.
Krupp's big gun of 1855 had been a
muzzle loader-his gun of 1862 load.
ed at the breech. That tells almost
the entire story, but not quite.
The full story is that Krupp in
vented a breech loading gun that
fired out of the muzzle. one that
did not explode backward killing the
handlers and destroying itself.
Krupp did not invent the breech
loader. Indeed Dreech loading guns
were first thought of as far back as
the middle of the sixteenth century,
but the trouble with them always
was that they worked both ways with
equal facility. Krupp took what was
known as the Cavalli gun, the in
vention of Sardinian officer by that
name, and experimental with the
breech block until finally he devised
flat wedge lock that would no,
blow off. This achievement was as
momentous for the future of heavy
ordnance as was Ericssens inven-
tion of the armored ana reyoIving
turret for the future of naval con-
struction. Krupp also improved the
methods of rifiing the bore, and 10
his experiments is due much of the
effectiveness OF modern firing. A
little later he conceived the idea of
making the gun barrel, not of a sin
gle piece, but OF several tubes shrunk
on over one another.
And. yet II was years before the
worth of Krupp's inventions was ac-
knowledged, even in Prussia, although
Prussia had placed a number of his
defense guns in various Notifications.
England, although Krupp had exhib-
tied his rined breech- leaders in Lon
don in 1852, would not even con-
slider them. Woolwich continued to
turn out muzzle- leaders of ever-in
! creasing size. Finally, however, in
1868 comparative test OF the two
types of gun was arranged AZ the
proving grounds. near Berlin, but
even Prussian officers made no con-
cealment of their expectations as to
the result Probably Krupp alone
was not astonished, for his gun led,
not only IN accuracy and power, but
in endurance as well. From that
day the muzzle loader was consigned
to the scrap heap.
Two years later Krupp artillery
thundered at Sedan. krupp siege
guns at Strasburg and Paris, and
Krupp gave his king an empire. The
French infantry outshone the Ger
mans, but their artillery was sorely
outclassed Strange that they had
not heard of the tests at Berlin and
prepared, Stranger still that they
should not today, remembering 1870,
hay< been prepared for the cater
pillar" by anticipating and equaling it.
So much for KrupU, the cannon
king. the maker of death dealing en-
gines which have changed the maps
of the world Between 1Si7. when
he made his first cannon, and his
DEATH in 1887. Krupp Alivered 23,-
900 pieces of ordnance (the firm has
never gone into the manufacturing
OF small arms) TO thirty four differ
ent states and Kingdoms.