THE FOUNDER OF KRUPPS.
Abandoning a successful grocery business in 1811, Frederick Krupp founded what has long been famous as the great steel works of Essen. In the enterprise to manufacture what was then known as "English steel" were the two Yon Kechels, but Krupp had the capital. . The firm started its operations in an old water-power mill at Alteness»en.
The experiments of the Yon Kechels were unsuccessful. For nearly two years they did their best, but all their efforts to produce "English steel failed. the end Krupp decided to get rid of them after having spent half hia fortune in experiments, and took over the management of the work himself. For a long time ho had no luck, and it was only after some years of disappointment and labour that a satisfactory metal was produced. It was under his son Alfred that the business first began to flourish. Its exhibit at the London exhibition of 1851 revealed to the world that a little-known German firm was producing iron and steel that could not be bettered by the industry of any other country.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 18 September 1912, Page 3
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