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    Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents. Eads' great...
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  • Eads is an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, named after Civil War engineer James Buchanan Eads. Some parts of Eads...
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    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...
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  • economist James Buchanan Eads (1820–1887), American engineer and inventor Joshua Allen Eads (born 1984), American drag queen known as Ginger Minj Lance Eads (born...
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    from the keel up in Carondelet, Missouri shipyards owned by James Buchanan Eads. Eads was a wealthy St. Louis industrialist who risked his fortune in support...
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  • (1856–1925), American industrialist James Buchanan Eads (1820–1887), American engineer and inventor James Buchanan Macaulay (1793–1859), Canadian lawyer...
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    of the river unnavigable for a period of time. Starting in 1876, James Buchanan Eads (1820–1887) solved the problem with a wooden jetty system that narrowed...
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  • campaign embracing technological innovations from civil engineer James Buchanan Eads and naval engineers like Benjamin F. Isherwood and John Ericsson...
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    Census. Eads has been the seat of Kiowa County since 1901. Eads was established in 1887 as a railroad town and was named after James Buchanan Eads, a structural...
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  • and capitalist who collaborated with civil engineer James Buchanan Eads on such projects as the Eads Bridge in St. Louis, the Mississippi River jetties...
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    Eliza Eads How, was the daughter of James Buchanan Eads, a successful civil engineer and inventor who had built the Eads Bridge. Even as a child he preferred...
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    was a City-class ironclad gunboat constructed for the U.S. Army by James B. Eads during the American Civil War. (While initially owned by the Army, the...
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    of Chauvenet and Charles Pfeiffer were used by James Buchanan Eads in designing and building the Eads Bridge in St. Louis. Chauvenet served as chancellor...
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  • Unconstitutional Mexican interim president (d. 1862) 1820 – James Buchanan Eads, American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge (d. 1887) 1820 – Lorenzo Sawyer, American...
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    Cornell Erastus Corning John Crerar (industrialist) Charles I. du Pont James Buchanan Eads John Ericsson William P. Halliday Benjamin Tyler Henry Gouverneur...
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    (born 1951), venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers James Buchanan Eads (1820–1887), civil engineer and inventor Charles Eames (1907–1978)...
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    four of which were known semi-officially as "Eads gunboats", after their builder, James Buchanan Eads, but more commonly as "Pook turtles", after their...
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    brown-water navy. St. Louis river salvage expert and engineering genius James Buchanan Eads won a contract to build a fleet of shallow-draft ironclads for use...
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    American West showman Buffalo Bill Cody, engineer James Buchanan Eads and inventor James Ryan. Professor James J. “Crash” Ryan (1903-1973), a professor of mechanical...
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  • American minister and activist (b. 1813) 1887 – James Buchanan Eads, American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge (b. 1820) 1889 – John Ericsson, Swedish-American...
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  • grandfather, James Buchanan Eads, who built the Eads Bridge crossing the Mississippi River at St. Louis. How had one brother, James Eads How. Not only...
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    ironclad gunboats for the Union Army and Navy were produced at the James Buchanan Eads-owned Union Marine Works shipyards, including four of the initial...
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    director in early 1941. Phelps died less than three years later, and educator James Rowland Angell became the hall's fifth director in 1944. The Hall of Fame's...
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  • Name Notability References James Buchanan Eads American civil engineer Elsie Eaves American civil engineer John S. Eastwood American dam engineer Marc...
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  • Durfee Invented the Harvard Mark I". www.invent.org. April 6, 2024. "James Buchanan Eads | The National Inventors Hall of Fame". www.invent.org. April 7,...
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    Morris Gray (1923), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. James Buchanan Eads (1924) Jonathan Edwards (1926) David Glasgow Farragut (1927) John...
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  • brought about the demise of the Native Americans, discovered how James Buchanan Eads managed to span the Mississippi River with a bridge despite not having...
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    Netherlands in the 19th century include riverbank improvement works by James Buchanan Eads on the southern Mississippi, using fascines made from Poplar trees...
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  • theatre, from 1856 through 1859. When the theatre was purchased by James Buchanan Eads in 1858 the theatre was renamed the St. Louis Opera House (sometimes...
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    Midvale Steel or in close cooperation with it include Henry Gantt, James Buchanan Eads, Theodore Cooper, and Francis B. Foley. Charles E. Brinley, president...
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