Subject: UNwanted armor piercing tung/carbide

From: [email-masked] (Gene Olson and Chris Wilson)
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 22:31:16 -0400 (EDT)

>
>B*B!
>Jerry
>
>Umm, aren't we getting pretty far away from the subject of the list?
>(Unless someone else comes forward saying they've been contracted to pound
>out dU shells for someone - "high armor piercing shells with that ol' time
>handforged feel"?)
>

"you must grow to be, Hard as Krupp steel,", mein kamph 

The evolution of iron metalurgy throughout the last four centuries has been
tied to armaments. The Krupps of Essen would arm who ever paid. first they
would develop and release new armor plate that could stop the current
munitions, then after everyone had bought it, they would release a "new"
shell they had designed to pierce it, everybody bought; and then of course
they had better armour for sale now, etc.  This funded their expansion and
rise as an industrial power and their development of some of the finest
alloys and techniques of their times.

Their steel was on the cutting edge. 

Iron has never been far from war, nor art for that matter. 
The terrifying masterpieces that came out of the Spanish Civil War, the
Monuments world over. Valor and grief, arouse sufficient emotion for people
to not only create but  for people to dig into their pockets and pay for the
creations.

It would be nice if we could change the focus. 

Gene

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