Because of this, the Troughton & Simms Company beca the instrunt supplier for the Royal Society. Moreover, they also provided several renowned astronomical telescopes for the Royal Greenwich Observatory, including the first equatorial telescope in history.
As for the Peter Dolonde Optical Instrunts Company, this old establishnt founded in the 18th century is currently the leader among global optical instrunt manufacturers. Their sextants and other nautical instrunts are highly trusted by the Royal Navy, and many prominent British astronors are loyal supporters of their company.
The British astronor William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, and his son John Herschel particularly favored the products of the Dolonde Company.
Additionally, the legendary cartographer Eld Carter, known for his rigor and seldom praise, once praised the instrunts of this company.
According to Mr. Carter, the improved sextants from Dolonde Company are a hundred tis better than traditional sextants in latitude positioning.
Though Krupp did not want to admit it, as a small steel mill in Prussia, he certainly knew that he could not compare with these two British giants in scientific instrunt manufacturing.
The office administrator, seeing him remain silent, snorted again: "Perhaps such standards are too high, but if you can produce the quality like Lerebours & Secretan Company, I think Mr. Gauss and the others might not be too concerned."
Arthur couldn’t help but laugh: "Carl, you’re being too sarcastic. The products of Lerebours & Secretan Company are not inferior to those of the forr two companies, their status in the French instrunt manufacturing industry is just as significant. When I previously visited the Paris Academy of Sciences, half of the precision instrunts there were manufactured by them."
If I rember correctly, there should be a refraction telescope produced by them in the school observatory. And that spectroter in the optical laboratory, it seems to be from their company too, right? I heard Mr. Gauss saying that those two are old antiques bought during the Napoleonic Wars?"
The office administrator pursed his lips: "Sir, your mory serves you well. But now isn’t the ti for a history lesson. You don’t understand, if I don’t speak decisively, this guy won’t give up. These salespeople always do this: before placing an order, they can boast about the product sky-high, but once the goods arrive, they vanish without a trace."
Krupp’s face was flushed and his neck stiffened as he heard this.
He had long known that getting an order from Göttingen University was by no ans easy, after all, it’s one of the top universities in Germany, and their procurent orders are the choice at that major European instrunt manufacturers have their eyes on.
Anyone who could secure Göttingen’s order would have enough to live off for several years without opening up shop again.
After all, whether it’s astronomical telescopes, spectroters, electrostatic machines, or biological microscopes, none of these instrunts co cheap.
If Krupp could secure this order, even just a bite, it would be sufficient to bring his struggling steel plant of 60 people back to life.
In other words, if Krupp wasn’t facing a financial crisis, he wouldn’t bother coming to Göttingen to try his luck.
Arthur did not know what Krupp was up to, though he didn’t mind tossing a few orders to him, the prerequisite was that the other’s product quality must et the standards.
After all, purchasing scientific instrunts is unlike the Italian Revolution. Mazzini and Garibaldi could not guess how much funding the British Foreign Office allocated to them, but Gauss and Weber these scientists could instantly tell whether an instrunt was workably good.
In terms of instrunt procurent, Arthur would rather spend more money to buy a reliable product, he didn’t want Gauss and the others to jump ship during his tenure as academic director.
Though young, Krupp inherited the steel plant managent at 14, and he’s been in the industry for eight years already.
He quickly caught the key information from everyone’s words. That annoying administrator old man talking badly about him was not important at all. The real influential person in the school seed to be the young guy, and according to the old man’s words, that young man seed to be nobility?
Krupp stepped forward, blocking Arthur and the administrator, asking with a smile: "I forgot to ask you just now, who are you?"
Arthur took off his hat and smiled politely: "Arthur Hastings, Göttingen University Supervisor."
"Supervisor?!" Krupp seed to have grasped the core of the matter in an instant, he quickly took hold of Arthur’s extended hand and shook it vigorously: "Pleasure to et you! I am Alfred Krupp, operator of Friedrich Krupp Company, very glad to know you, Mr. Von Hastings."
"No, no, no." Arthur shook his hand repeatedly, "No Von, just Hastings, I’m not a German."
Krupp’s smile was radiant, as if he had guessed sothing: "Ah! A foreigner! Damn, I should have thought of it earlier! It seems like Hanover, like Prussia, loves to seek talented foreign aristocrats to hold office."
As he finished, Krupp looked behind Arthur at Disraeli: "And this gentleman is?"
Arthur casually introduced: "This is my friend, also a foreigner, Mr. Benjamin Disraeli."
Krupp greeted Disraeli warmly: "Hello! Mr. Di Israel, just hearing your na I can tell you’re Italian."
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