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	James Buchanan Eads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		James Buchanan Eads (23 May, 1820–8 March, 1887) was a American (A native or inhabitant of the United States) engineer (A person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems) and inventor (Someone who is the first to think of or make something).
		Eads solved the problem with a wooden jetty (A protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away) 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 Nassau (The capital of the Bahamas), Bahamas (Island country in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba; a popular winter resort) on 8 March, 1887.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/james_buchanan_eads.htm (201 words)

	James Buchanan Eads - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eads was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and named for his Mother's cousin, then Congressman and subsequent President of the United States James Buchanan.
		Eads designed and built the first road and rail bridge to cross the Mississippi River, the famous Eads Bridge at Saint Louis, Missouri, constructed from 1867 thorugh 1874.
		Eads solved the problem with a wooden jetty system that narrowed the main outlet of the river, which caused the river to speed up and cut its channel deeper, so allowing year-round navigation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Eads (356 words)

	Eads Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Eads knew that a truss bridge would have proven a failure, because the engineer who designed it did not arrange to base the foundation on the bed rock of the river.
		Eads knew that this must be done as he had been 65 feet below the river surface at Cairo, and there he had found the river bottom to be a moving mass at least three feet deep.
		Eads was absolutely convinced his bridge must be laid on bed rock, even if he had to go through 100 feet of sand to lay his piers on rock.
	www.eslarp.uiuc.edu /ibex/archive/guidebook/EadsBridge.htm (1279 words)

	02-1217 -- U.S. v. Eads -- 03/07/2003
		Eads was sentenced to life imprisonment on count 1; 235 months imprisonment on count 2, to be served concurrently with count 1; and thirty years imprisonment on count 3 to be served consecutively.
		Eads raises three arguments in his COA brief: (1) the jury's verdict on count 1, for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute, is ambiguous because it does not specify whether the jury found the object of the conspiracy to be cocaine or methamphetamine; (2) the district court violated Apprendi v.
		Eads for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute under count 2 of the indictment, and this was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy charged in count 1.
	www.kscourts.org /ca10/cases/2003/03/02-1217.htm (902 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)

	American Experience \| Secrets of a Master Builder \| People & Events
		Eads had known since he was a young man that the future prosperity of America depended on building an infrastructure based on daring new technology.
		James Eads was born on May 23, 1820, in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, the third child of Ann and Thomas Eads.
		Eads won the contract; he built the boats from the designs Washington sent; and he also adapted one of his salvage boats into a war vessel.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/eads/peopleevents/p_jbeads.html (2679 words)

	Eads Bridge
		An aesthetic progenitor of Saarinen is Capt. James Buchanan Eads.
		Eads, more than likely, would be puzzled by the display of exuberant amateur athleticism, not to mention all the publicly exposed flesh, initiating new life for the crossing.
		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)

	Innovative Eads tames, harnesses rivers - The Washington Times: Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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.
	www.washtimes.com /civilwar/20040130-081814-5499r.htm (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)

	Eads History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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)

	James Eads 10 06 04 News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		According to the indictment, when Eads applied for federal disability insurance benefits in August 1974, he stated that he was totally disabled and unable to work because of a back injury and deteriorating eyesight which had reduced his vision to about 30 percent.
		Eads' application for disability benefits was approved and he began receiving federal disability insurance benefits.
		The indictment alleges that Eads, in his re-certification on January 13, 1998, stated that he was totally disabled and unable to work, falsely reporting that, due to his disabled condition, his wife had to tie his shoes and provide transportation.
	www.usdoj.gov /usao/ilc/press/2004/october/eads100604.htm (414 words)

	James D. Eads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		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)

	James Eads - biographic sketch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Eads required that the 18 inch diameter hollow tubes conform to a test strength of 60,000 pounds.
		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)

	James Buchanan Eads Biography / Biography of James Buchanan Eads Biography
		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.
		Ironclads became the mainstays of the Army's Western Flotilla and from Oct. 1, 1862, the nucleus of the Navy's Mississippi Squadron.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-james-buchanan-eads (536 words)

	James Buchanan Eads
		Eads turned his attention to the deepening of the Mississippi by means of jetties.
		Eads, as it was a practical demonstration of his theories.
		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.
	www.famousamericans.net /jamesbuchananeads (1020 words)

	St. Louis Historic Preservation
		Eads was a self-educated engineer who had been a partner in the boat building company of Case and Nelson.
		Eads´ response was: "Must we admit that, because a thing has never been done, it never can be, when our knowledge and judgment assures us it is entirely practical." He thought that one major reason for the failure of other attempts was water action.
		Eads´ associate, Colonel Flad, was responsible for the tubular arches which, during erection of the spans, were to be partly self-supporting and partly upheld by a system of cables passing from a fixed anchorage over wooden towers erected on the top of each pier.
	stlcin.missouri.org /history/structdetail.cfm?Master_ID=1324 (753 words)

	Additional Reading (from James B. Eads) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Eads, James B. The best-known achievement of James B. Eads was the construction of the steel triple-arch bridge in St. Louis, Mo. The Eads Bridge was the largest bridge of any type built up to that time, and it was considered a landmark in engineering.
		Eads pioneered the use of structural steel, planted the foundations of the bridge at record depths, and used a cantilevering...
		Irwin, James B. astronaut and air force test pilot James B. Irwin was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., on March 17, 1930.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-1974?tocId=1974 (859 words)

	James B. Eads Hall - Hilltop - Historical Campus Tour - Washington University in St. Louis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Eads Hall was completed in 1902 and served as the Board of Lady Managers Building during the World's Fair.
		James Eads is well known in St. Louis for his work on Eads Bridge, the first arched steel bridge to cross the Mississippi.
		This is the west end of the first floor of Eads Hall as it appeared in 1935.
	www.wustl.edu /tour/hilltop/eads.html (246 words)

	Eads, James Buchanan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Eads, eedz, James Buchanan (1820-1887), a celebrated American engineer.
		It is a mammoth steel arch structure of three spans, resting on stone pillars sent down to bed rock far below the bottom of a treacherous river.
		He designed the system of willow mattresses and stonework by which the water was confined to a narrow passage through which it scoured a deep channel.
	www.factopia.com /aiton-encyclopedia-vol2/eads-james-buchanan.htm (196 words)

	Gateways to the West - Eads Bridge Builder - James Eads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		James Buchanan Eads was born at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, May 23, 1820.
		Finally, in 1867 Eads was hired to construct the bridge.
		March 8, 18 87, James Eads died in the Bahamas.
	www.jracademy.com /~amclaughlin/James-Eads.html (256 words)

	No. 1093: Under Pressure
		At the age of 46, Eads, who'd never built a bridge, was called on to bridge the Mississippi at St. Louis.
		Eads knew the swirling mess of moving mud and silt that made up the river bottom.
		Since they had trouble standing straight, they called the problem "the bends." When they reached a depth where the pressure was three atmospheres, Eads had to send men to the hospital.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1093.htm (548 words)

	Database files 8/05
		EADS was born on Jun 2 1879 in Marion, Illinois.
		EADS was born on Oct 19 1884 in Marion Illinois.
		EADS Ples was born on Jun 11 1880 in Marion, Illinois.
	www.cookshangout.com /database/d122.html (769 words)

	Simonsays.com > SimonSays > Great Projects: The Epic Story of the Building of America, from the Taming of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In May 1875, Eads set off from New Orleans with a fleet of barges, tugboats, steam launches, and floating pile drivers, all bound for the low-lying landscape where little but whispering grasses and fishermen's huts marked the presence of land in a wilderness of water and sky.
		Eads had dropped off some of his crews forty miles upriver, where they waded among water moccasins and leeches to cut thousands of young willows.
		They turned their attention to a phenomenon that James Eads had discovered firsthand more than a century earlier, under a diving bell -- the sand that "drifted like a dense snowstorm at the bottom." Sediment, after all, was the root of the problem.
	www.simonsays.com /excerpt.cfm?isbn=0743210646&type=31 (10222 words)

	James Eads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A self-educated man, Eads had made a fortune salvaging cargoes from boats sunk in the western rivers.
		Retired because of ill health in 1861, Eads' strong Union loyaltie, combined with his conviction the war would be won through control of the Mississippi, motivated him to devote his energies to the war effort.
		It was Eads who proposed to President Lincoln and his cabinet the concept of an inland Navy and it was Eads who built, in five months, the Seven City Class Ironclads, including the Cairo.
	wwweng.uwyo.edu /societies/asce/bridge_natl_2001/eads.htm (147 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)

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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)

	Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It was Eads, though, who had long championed the use of levees on the riverbanks to improve the low-water channel.
		Eads, though, had backed away from his advocacy of cutoffs nearly two years before the MRC issued its report.
		Eads was replaced by Samuel W. Ferguson, the president of the Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners.
	www.mvd.usace.army.mil /mrc/Upon_There_Shoulders/notes.htm (13399 words)

	St. Louis' Ships of Iron
		It was built in the 1850's by Primus Emerson and leased to James Eads.
		Others ships Eads built at the Carondelet shipyard were "Fort Henry", "Essex" (ironclad), Neosho, (river monitor), "Osage" (river monitor, identical twin of the Neosho), "Choctaw" (ironclad ram), "Winnebago" (double turreted river monitor), "Milwaukee" (monitor), and the Chickasaw" (river monitor).
		The USS Osage, a river monitor built by James B. Eads at the Carondelet shipyard.
	www.missouricivilwarmuseum.org /1ironclads.htm (3061 words)

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