'It Doesn't Go Boom'

Alfred crupp was at kind of almost the apex of his power. His dominance of london's 18 62 grand exhibition was absolute. One journalist did a pair of railroad wheels which had been run nearly 74 thousand miles without having been again put into the lathe. The spectator rapturously told of ladies standing in mute delight and men dreaming of the battle music of the future. It say a lot about human nature that, like crupp, also invents railroad wheels which can go for tens of thousands of miles without having to be repaired.