Steel Technology and Mass Production of Armaments
These four photographs show how the firm of Krupp used a head start in steel
technology to develop armaments production on a really large scale by the 1890s. The
exterior views show (a) blast furnaces where the steel was smelted and (b) the
firing range at Meppen where finished guns were tested. The interior views show (c)
a machine shop for making gun carriage parts and (d) the shop where gun tubes
were given their final machining, inside and out. These photographs formed part of
a promotional collection distributed by the firm in 1892.
Reproduced from copies in the University of Chicago Library.
a
b