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===The Mustang=== Krupp also used the name "Mustang" for some of their products, causing a problem for Ford Motor Company in 1964 when they desired to export their car of the same name to Germany, especially since American military personnel stationed there wanted the new car. Although Krupp offered to sell the Mustang name to Ford for a reasonable price, Ford declined and as a result, badged all Mustangs destined for Germany "T-5." By 1978 Krupp's rights to the Mustang name expired and all Mustangs exported to Germany henceforth retained the Mustang name. Krupp Steel Works of Essen, Germany, manufactured the spherical pressure chamber of the dive vessel ''[[Bathyscaphe Trieste|Trieste]]'',<ref>Prophetically, [[Jules Verne]]'s 1870 novel ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas]]'' remarks that Captain Nemo's submarine was made of steel from Krupp of Prussia.</ref> the first vessel to take humans to the [[Challenger Deep|deepest known point]] in the oceans, accomplished in 1960. This was a heavy duty replacement for the original pressure sphere (made in Italy by Acciaierie Terni) and was manufactured in three finely machined sections: an equatorial ring and two hemispherical caps. The sphere weighed 13 tonnes in air (net displacement eight tonnes in water) with walls that were 12.7 centimetres (5.0 in) thick. Krupp Steel Works was also contracted in the mid-1960s to construct the [[Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope]], which, from 1972 to 2000 was the largest fully steerable [[radio telescope]] in the world.<ref>Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy | Radio Telescope Effelsberg | History</ref>
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