There was no analysis of material, no scientific treatment of it.
How much this German created! He was the first man to introduce the cold saw that cut cold iron the exact lengths.

He invented upsetting machines to make bridge links, and also built the first "universal" mill in America.

All these were erected at our works.

When Captain Eads could not obtain the couplings for the St.Louis Bridge arches (the contractors failing to make them) and matters were at a standstill, Kloman told us that he could make them and why the others had failed.

He succeeded in making them.