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Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned [1] American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents. [2]Eads' great Mississippi River Bridge at St. Louis was designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior in 1964 and on October 21, 1974 was listed as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American ...
The bridge is named for its designer and builder, James Buchanan Eads. Work on the bridge began in 1867, and it was completed in 1874. The Eads Bridge was the first bridge across the Mississippi south of the Missouri River. Earlier bridges were located north of the Missouri, where the Mississippi is narrower.
James Buchanan Eads (grandfather) Louis How (1873–1947) was a prolific American poet and a biographer of his grandfather, James Buchanan Eads , who built the Eads Bridge crossing the Mississippi River at St. Louis.
Eads has been the seat of Kiowa County since 1901. [3] Eads was established in 1887 as a railroad town and was named after James Buchanan Eads, a structural engineer with the Missouri Pacific Railroad, who designed and built the Eads Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis in 1874 and went on to design and build the system of levees on the Mississippi Delta which made the river ...
In 1842, James Eads affiliated with the salvage firm. He is best known for building Eads Bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis. In between his company built ironclad gunboats at Carondelet, Missouri, for the Union during the Civil War. Later he built jetties in the Mississippi River delta to prevent silting.
James Andrews (October 7, 1828 – July 6, 1897) was a Scottish-American stonemason, engineer, and capitalist who collaborated with civil engineer James Buchanan Eads on such projects as the Eads Bridge in St. Louis, the Mississippi River jetties, and a proposed railway system across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
With just a couple of hours left to reach a deal or ask for an extension, the proposed merger between defense contractor BAE Systems plc and European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co. (EADS), the ...
Eads Bridge: Extant Steel arch: 1874 ... James River Bridge Replaced Pratt truss: 1885 1988 Farm Road 141 James River: ... Buchanan MO-62: Leeper Ford Bridge ...