Friedrich Krupp AG

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Krupp is a well-established German weapons manufacturer, commissioned to create an anti-aircraft gun during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, in response to the French use of balloons.

Krupp anti-balloon artillery depicted in Hildebrandt, 1908, Airships Past and Present.

Naturally these sorties were not at all to the taste of the Germans, and Krupp was ordered to make a cannon suitable for bringing the balloons to earth. It was to be capable of being tilted almost into a vertical position, and to have a special gun-carriage fitted to it. But it was not a success and was soon relegated to the Zeughaus in Berlin. The outposts, however, were constantly on the look-out, and the result of their firing was to drive the French to start their balloons by night.
The German artillery knew the diameter of these balloons to be 50ft., and were therefore able to tell the distance approximately.[1]

In 1906 the company was a founding investor in Motorluftschiff Studiengesellschaft m.b.H.[2]

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Organization names Krupp
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Country DE
City Essen-Ruhr
Affiliated with Motorluftschiff Studiengesellschaft m.b.H
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Started aero
Ended aero
Keywords military, coal, finance
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