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EADS, JAMES BUCHANAN (1820-1887)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 789 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DRO-ECG
EADS, JAMES BUCHANAN (1820-1887) , American engineer, was born at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, on the 23rd of May 182o. His first engineering
work
  of any importance was in raising sunken steamers. In 1845 he established glass works in St Louis. During the Civil War he constructed ironclad steamers and mortar boats for the Federal government. His next important engineering achievement was the construction of the
great
  steel arch
bridge
  across the
Mississippi
  at St Louis (see
BRIDGE
 , fig. 29), upon which he was engaged from 1867 till 1874. The
work
 , however, upon which his reputation principally rests was his deepening and fixing the channel at the mouths of the
Mississippi
  by means of jetties, whereby the narrowed stream was made to scour out its own channel and carry the sediment out to sea. Shortly before his death he projected a
scheme
  for a ship railway across the
Isthmus
  of
Tehuantepec
 , in lieu of an isthmian canal. He died at Nassau, in the Bahamas, on the 8th of
March
  1887.


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