Steel, Low Carbon, Iron, Tough and Malleable

In the spring of the machine age, europe was crying for big chunks of high quality steel. The old smiths couldn't help nor could the operators of blast furnaces. Attempts were made to fuse several small ingots of steel and cast them a single block. Young friedrich krupp founded the cast steel works with the ambition of winning the prize that napoleon had set out. In december of 18 11, he declared his loyalty to the emperor of france. This was bad timing, since it was at the precise that friedrick declared his fealty tofrancis.