Steel and weapons are symbols of a nation's power; only the strongest steel can forge the most powerful weapons.
——Alfred Krupp
The sound of the argument in the corridor quickly attracted the attention of Arthur and Disraeli.
Mr. Disraeli, who had traveled from London, sneered, "Arthur, did you hear that? This kid actually wants to sell German industrial products to a British person's school as an academic director."
Perhaps over half a century later, German manufacturing will be labeled as the world's best products.
But in 1833, industrial products from the Germanic Region were cheap and a representation of poor quality.
In the fractured Germanic states, enterprises here could neither find high-quality iron mines nor master advanced British industrial technology. So, in most cases, they could only rely on protective tariffs and lower labor costs to compete with the surge of British goods.
