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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 ...
James Buchanan Eads The Submarine No. 7. In the early days of the Civil War, before it was certain that the secession movement had been thwarted in St. Louis, and before it was known that Kentucky would remain in the Union, James B. Eads offered one of his salvage vessels, Submarine No. 7, to the Federal government for conversion to a warship for service on the western rivers.
USS Baron DeKalb was a City-class ironclad gunboat constructed for the Union Navy by James B. Eads during the American Civil War.. USS Baron DeKalb, named after General Baron DeKalb of Hüttendorf near Erlangen, in present-day Bavaria, was originally named Saint Louis, and was one of seven City-class ironclads built at Carondelet, Missouri and Mound City, Illinois, for the Western Gunboat ...
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Them's fightin' words. The House Oversight Committee devolved into chaos on Tuesday after Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., challenged Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, to a fight. "If you wanna take it ...
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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.
A group of at least six attorneys general from Democratic-led states – New York, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island – filed a similar lawsuit.