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	James Buchanan Eads -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		James Buchanan Eads (23 May, 1820–8 March, 1887) was a (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems) engineer and (Someone who is the first to think of or make something) inventor.
		Eads solved the problem with a wooden (A protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away) jetty system that narrowed the main outlet of the river, which caused the river to cut its channel deeper and allowing year-round navigation.
		Eads died in (The capital of the Bahamas) Nassau, (Island country in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba; a popular winter resort) Bahamas on 8 March, 1887.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/james_buchanan_eads.htm (231 words)

	Eads Bridge
		Celebrating the re-opening of the Eads Bridge on the 4th of July is significant because the bridge originally opened on the 4th of July in 1874.
		An aesthetic progenitor of Saarinen is Capt. James Buchanan Eads.
		Eads was convinced that the Union must be master of the Mississippi and he pleaded his case to Edward Bates, President Lincoln's attorney general.
	bridgepros.com /projects/eads (2613 words)

	James B. Eads
		Eads proposed building seven armor-plated, shallow-draft gunboats to help Union land forces overpower Confederate forts impeding their progress downriver.
		Not to be outdone, Eads also designed a complex steam-driven turret used on river monitors during the war that rivaled John Ericsson's celebrated model.
		The father of the Eads gunboats, bridge, and jetties died in Nassau, Bahamas in 1887 at the age of sixty-six years.
	www.nps.gov /vick/visctr/sitebltn/eads.htm (613 words)

	Innovative Eads tames, harnesses rivers - The Washington Times: Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		James Buchanan Eads (1820-1887) made a fortune from salvaged Mississippi River cargo, built a bridge across the Mississippi River that others said couldn't be done, designed the ironclads that won the Mississippi for the Union Army and Navy and found the best way to clear the Mississippi River delta of silt.
		Eads pioneered a diving bell that permitted divers to walk on the bottom of the Mississippi, and he was the first to risk using his invention, a perilous undertaking.
		Eads said he could deepen the channels of the Mississippi by narrowing and restricting the flow of the water.
	washingtontimes.com /functions/print.php?StoryID=20040130-081814-5499r (1752 words)

	NJN - New Jersey Public Television and Radio
		Eads responded by designing a bridge with 500-foot arched spans - the longest ever conceived - to be made of steel, a new material that had never been used in such a large structure.
		Eads' idea was to build a series of wall-like jetties that would narrow the waterway.
		Eads offered the government a proposal: he would pay for construction of the jetties and be reimbursed only if they were successful.
	www.njn.net /television/highlights/march02/secretsmasterbuilder.html (793 words)

	James Buchanan Eads
		Eads turned his attention to the deepening of the Mississippi by means of jetties.
		Eads proposed a ship railway to be constructed across the isthmus of Tehuantepec, and after failing to induce the government to attempt the execution of this work, he formed a private company, for the incorporation of which a bill was passed by the U. Senate in 1887.
		Eads was president of the St. Louis academy of sciences for two terms, and in 1872 was elected a member of the National academy of sciences.
	www.famousamericans.net /jamesbuchananeads (1020 words)

	James D. Eads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Eads was also an extremely vigilant hotel proprietor and successfully ran the Bolton House (located on the south side of the public square on West Main Street), the Eads House (located on the southeast corner of West Market and North Main Street), and the Allen House (located in Clinton, Missouri).
		Though some people attempt to link James Douglas Eads with the same heritage of James Buchanan Eads (developer of the Eads Bridge in St.Louis and successful inventor of various aquatic and bridge creation patents), nothing in history has been found to place the two together in the same family lineage.
		Son James II would own a large farm in the country and a drugstore on the corner of Holden Street and Pine Street.
	www.warrensburg-mo.com /Cemetery/james_d_eads.htm (642 words)

	SUVCW Missouri Department
		James Buchanan Eads was born on May 23, 1820 in Lawrenceburg, Indiana.
		Eads’ energy and inventiveness resulted in his becoming a prominent riverine engineer by the time of the Civil War and turned out to be an invaluable asset in helping the Union regain control of the Mississippi River.
		Eads’ gunboats were used to help capture Forts Henry and Donelson in February 1862, one month before the famous USS Monitor and CSS Virginia exchanged fire at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
	www.suvcwmo.org /eads.php (352 words)

	James Eads - biographic sketch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		James B. Eads was born, May 23, 1820, in Lawrenceburg, Indiana and died March 8, 1887, in Nassau, Bahamas.
		Eads was an engineer known for the Eads Bridge, a triple-arch steel bridge over the Mississippi River that connects East St. Louis, Illinois to St..
		Eads, at the age of 22, decided that he could devise a means to salvage steamboat accidents.
	archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu /Cyberia/RiverWeb/Projects/Ambot/TECH/TECH20.htm (734 words)

	Eads History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Eads, engineer and inventor, was first a clerk in a dry goods house in St. Louis.
		Eads for advice on use of the western rivers in the war.
		Eads proposed the building of a fleet of steam-propelled gunboats that would be armor-plated to ward off shell fire.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /Eads/eads_history.html (432 words)

	American Experience \| Secrets of a Master Builder \| James Eads Timeline
		Eads and his family escape with just the clothes on their backs.
		Eads becomes a mud clerk on the steamboat "Knickerbocker." It is sunk by a snag on December 11, 1839, with the loss of a large quantity of lead.
		Eads walks into the St. Louis offices of boat builders Calvin Case and William Nelson and shows them his designs for a salvage boat and diving bell.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/eads/timeline (869 words)

	James Buchanan Eads Biography / Biography of James Buchanan Eads Biography Biography
		James Buchanan Eads (1820-1887), an American engineer and inventor, developed ironclad ships during the Civil War and designed the world's first steel-arch bridge.
		James B. Eads was born in Lawrenceburg, Ind., on May 23, 1820.
		Eads patented a diving bell in 1841 and used it on specially designed craft to salvage wrecked riverboats.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-james-buchanan-eads/index.html (537 words)

	A Moment in Time: James Buchanan Eads and Mississippi Mud - II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lead: In the 1870s James Buchanan Eads devised the means for cutting a deep water channel at the mouth of the Mississippi.
		Eads proposed the construction of jetties or parallel piers far out into the gulf which would narrow the channel and use the force of the river's own current to cut shipping lanes through the sandbar.
		Despite bitter opposition from the corps Eads careful reasoning and reputation overcame objections and he was able to begin in May 1875.
	ehistory.osu.edu /world/amit/display.cfm?amit_id=1856 (404 words)

	Eads Bridge & Gateway to the West Memorial
		As a young man, Eads designed a diving bell, which allowed him to walk on the Mississippi river bottom to salvage wrecked vessels by guiding the "snag" boats to their submerged targets.
		When the Civil War erupted, Eads was called upon by the US government for advice on securing and maintaining control of the Mississippi.
		Eads designed and built the first seven armor-clad gun boats for the Union Navy, accomplishing the enormous task in just 100 days.
	www.byways.org /browse/byways/2278/places/15806 (304 words)

	James buchanan - Structurae [en]: James Buchanan Eads (1820-1887) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		James Buchanan, Dickinson College Class of 1809, led an illustrious career as a public servant and diplomat, culminating in his being elected the fifteenth
		James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States (1857 en dash 1861), Binder, Frederick M., James Buchanan and the American Empire (1995).
		James Buchanan, the only bachelor to be President, spent his entire term of James Buchanan was born in a log Cabin at Cove Gap, a few miles outside of
	www.allsitemap.com /asm/james-buchanan.html (211 words)

	Do fundo do mar... Sea bottom: Historic Civil War gunship rediscovered in the muddy Mississippi River
		The USS Chickasaw - brainchild of engineering genius James Buchanan Eads - was recently rediscovered in a graveyard of shipwrecks in the area known as Carrollton, once a town upriver from the French Quarter.
		Eads, an energetic and self-taught young man who turned his inventions into moneymaking enterprises, became world-renowned after the Civil War when he built a 520-foot long steel bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis, completed in 1874.
		But with the mind of Eads behind its design, its storied war record and its being the only known example left of the Milwaukee class of monitors, officials are hopeful to get it on the national historic registry.
	dofundodomar.blogspot.com /2004/11/historic-civil-war-gunship.html (696 words)

	James B. Eads Hall - Hilltop - Historical Campus Tour - Washington University in St. Louis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Eads Hall was completed in 1902 and served as the Board of Lady Managers Building during the World's Fair.
		The building was named for James Buchanan Eads, the designer of Eads Bridge, and was a gift to the university by his daughter, Mrs.
		James Eads is well known in St. Louis for his work on Eads Bridge, the first arched steel bridge to cross the Mississippi.
	www.wustl.edu /tour/hilltop/eads.html (246 words)

	James Eads - biographic sketch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is James Buchanan Eads, builder of the Eads bridge in St. Louis and one wild engineer!
		The Eads Bridge opened in 1874 and Eads almost immediately moved on to another mamoth construction project, the improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi near New Orleans.
		Eads was also involved in the design and construction of diving bells for use in river salvage and in the construction of iron-clan gun boats during the Civil War.
	www.cod.edu /people/faculty/cartert/ENG202/j-eads.htm (219 words)

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		The vision and courage of engineer-builders like Charles Ellet, James Eads, Lindenthal, the Roeblings and others, stand out for their vision, courage to take a risk, and their perseverance.
		By the time Eads had sunk the second of two caissons in 1870, Dr. Jaminet had correctly identified the cause and the antidote for the “bends”, but not before 13 men had died and many more were crippled.
		Theodore Cooper, who was chief engineer for Eads in St. Louis, issued a stop work order from New York in August 1907 when plate-buckling was noticed at the base of one of the cantilevers.
	www.hntb.com /documents/word/HNTB_bridgeBuilding.doc (816 words)

	AAA Traveler - Eads bridge
		Eads was an intrepid inventor who designed a diving bell out of a whiskey keg to search the river bottom for cargo from shipwrecks.
		Eads was born in Indiana in 1820 and moved to St. Louis when he was 13.
		Eads could foresee the importance of a river navy and developed a plan to build armored gunboats for the War Department out of a shipyard near St. Louis.
	www.ouraaa.com /traveler/0209/spanning_m.html (892 words)

	USATODAY.com - Taming the wild river (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Eads planned to employ jujitsu; he would use the power of his opponent the river —; to bring his opponent down.
		On June 12, 1875, Eads left New Orleans with several dozen men and a steam tug pulling a steam-driven pile driver and three flatboats, one for boarding workers and two loaded with material to build housing.
		Eads said Humphreys' calculations were "mathematically a blunder that would disgrace a boy in High School.
	www.usatoday.com /life/2001-04-25-stephen-ambrose-mississippi.htm (893 words)

	EPA's American Heritage Rivers > Designated Rivers > Upper Mississippi River > Upper Mississippi River Report
		Eads Bridge was built shortly after the Civil War (1874) and was the engineering and construction feat of its day, a double-deck bridge for rail, highway, and pedestrian traffic.
		As the first major crossing of the Mississippi River, the Eads Bridge became a critical link in the transcontinental railroad, and it accelerated St. Louis development as the "Gateway to the West".
		Eads Bridge is one of the "Keystone Projects" identified in the Upper Mississippi, American Heritage Rivers Initiative.
	www.epa.gov /rivers/98rivers/upmiss0101.html (1177 words)

	The Missouri Civil War Museum -Civilian Gallery
		Under contract with the Federal government, Eads built a fleet of Iron-clad gunboats, monitors and mortar boats at his Carondelet shipyard.
		Husband, Richard J. Lockwood, an associate of James E. Yeatman, President of the Western Sanitary Commission.
		Virginia at age 10 and nearly blind, told Col. James W. Porter's command where the U.S. flag was hidden by the pro-Union militia after the capture of Memphis, (Scotland Co.) Missouri.
	www.missouricivilwarmuseum.org /civilian1.htm (115 words)

	Physical Therapy / Editor's Note (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us One of the unsung heroes of American engineering, James Buchanan Eads, had a great deal to be proud of, including the invention of the ironclad warship in time for the Union to deploy it along the Mississippi River during the Civil War.
		In building his magnificent bridge, Eads faced the common curse of many engineers in the mid-1860s: what was then called caisson disease and is now called "the bends," or decompression disease.
		Eads, who cared deeply for his workers, eventually found that, by using a slow-moving elevator car, workers could be raised from the depths without suffering the disabling and often fatal effects of the bends.
	www.ptjournal.org /Oct2002/Oct02_EdNote.cfm (1282 words)

	The Eads Bridge, Hustling, and the Zen of Pain
		But in the case of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis, one can't help but get swept up by the enthusiasm of the author, and the aesthetics of the bridge design itself.
		Eads began his financial life as a bottom-fisher, and a special one: one who scavenged the bottom of the Mississippi River.
		In consultation with architects and engineers, Eads design the bridge --- using novel chrome-steel ribs; in consultation with bankers, he raised the money; and in consultation with his friend, the president (Grant), he overcame the usual opposition from users of the river, and would-be competitors.
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