An old engraving showing a huge Krupp’s 1200-pound, breech-loading, rifled gun It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. This gun was shown at Paris International Exposition of 1867. In 1811 German industrialist Friedrich Krupp founded his cast-steel factory Gusstahlfabrik. It was his son, Alfred Krupp, who attained success with his muzzle-loading rifled gun of cast steel, which gave such good results that the Prussian army adopted steel for its artillery. By the 1870s, Krupp steel weapons were being purchased by countries all over the world.
An old engraving showing a huge Krupp’s 1200-pound, breech-loading, rifled gun It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. This gun was shown at Paris International Exposition of 1867. In 1811 German industrialist Friedrich Krupp founded his cast-steel factory Gusstahlfabrik. It was his son, Alfred Krupp, who attained success with his muzzle-loading rifled gun of cast steel, which gave such good results that the Prussian army adopted steel for its artillery. By the 1870s, Krupp steel weapons were being purchased by countries all over the world. A breechloading gun is a weapon in which the ammunition (cartridge or shell) is loaded at the rear (breech) end of its barrel, as opposed to a muzzleloader, which loads ammunition at the front (muzzle) end. Modern firearms are usually breech-loading.
Size: 4252px × 2509px
Location: Germany
Photo credit: © M&N / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 1200, 1800s, 19th, alfred, ammunition, artillery, black, breech, breech-loading, breechloader, cannon, century, design, early, emplacement, engineering, engraving, fixed, german, germany, gun, gunnery, historical, history, hundreds, illustration, industrial, industry, krupp, krupps, large, lb, load, loading, machine, machinery, mechanical, mortar, nineteenth, pound, revolution, rifled, shell, steel, twelve, victorian, weapon, weaponry, white
