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...Ponts and other moneyed aristocrats of Wilmington, Del., were honored not long ago to entertain young Baron George Exter Friedrich von Krupp, heir apparent to the vast Krupp works at Essen. The Baron was no mustachioed warlord but, on the contrary, save for his short-clipped blond hair and "der's" for "the's," differed little in mien from a U. S. college undergraduate. He conversed readily, fluently; talked of sport, history, politics; reminisced modestly of his grandfather; spoke of his mother, famed and able Bertha Krupp, with restrained admiration and affection. Then he would sigh...
Once upon a time (1810) one Friedrich Krupp purchased a forge in Essen; hammered hard and long in making a new product, "cast steel"; died. His good works were carried on by his widow and 14-year-old son Alfred, but little success was achieved until 1847, when the Krupp works exhibited a 3-pound muzzle-loading cannon of cast steel which attracted wide attention. German militarists, pleased, gave orders. The Krupps built model villages- "colonies," with schools, libraries, recreation grounds, clubs, stores. When Alfred Krupp died at Essen in 1887 he was called the "Cannon King...
Died. Dr. Otto Ludwig Wiedfeldt, 55, former German Ambassador to the U. S. (who failed to lower his embassy flag at the death of Presi dent Wilson), director-general of the Krupp Works; at Essen...
...Died. August Thyssen, 86, patriarch of Ruhr industrial barons, contemporary of the late Hugo Stinnes and the late Alfred Krupp, self-made amasser of $100,000,000; at his castle, Lindsborg, near Muehlheim...
Last week despatches from London announced that Dr. Hartman had a perfected "diving bell," was off with seven fellow-scientists and a secretary, for test drops to the bottom of the Mediterranean. The Krupp works at Essen had built him a steel cylinder guaranteed to resist sea-pressure at 15,000 ft., equipped with magnifying submarine telescopes instead of windows ; with revolving saddles, one above the other, for observers; with a periscope, radio, telephone, ozone generator, carbon-dioxide filter, temperature and pressure instruments, powerful actinic illuminators, a deep-sea cinema camera and two and a half miles of steel cable...