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Part One: The Man Who Invented The Military-Industrial Complex

Behind the Bastards

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Bronze canons are kind of the standard in europe at the time. People had tried to make steel cannons and wrought iron cannons, and they'd always been disasters. In 18 50, crupp and his workers put together a three pound cannon for an exhibition in london. This is like the birth of,. this is the industrial revolution, the birth of the steel age. So people are figuring out new shit every year. Every year they'll gather in a new city to show off the cool ship that they've invented. And most of it's likes, like a violent science pair.

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