Eugene Klapp

Project Gutenberg lists Eugene Klapp as the author of a 1910 contribution to Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a volume focused on reinforced concrete pier construction. Based on the available sources found here, he appears to have been an engineer rather than a literary author in the usual sense.

Very little biographical information was readily confirmed in this search, but his published work places him in the world of American civil engineering in the early 1900s, when new construction methods and materials were rapidly changing infrastructure design. That makes his writing most interesting as a historical snapshot of professional engineering practice from that era.