Missouri's Hall of Fame: Lives of Eminent Missourians
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Missouri's Hall of Fame: Lives of Eminent Missourians
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Chapter of the book about James Eads (1820-1887) "Missouri's greatest engineer and inventor, and one of the most famous in America," born in Indiana and moving to Saint Louis in 1833, becoming an inventor and engineer, designing devices for diving into the Mississippi River, ironclad boats for the Civil War, and the Eads Bridge at Saint Louis, begun in 1867 and completed in 1874, with illustrations.
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Creator: Shoemaker, Floyd Calvin
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1923
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Pages 64-65: "Some of his plans and inventions were used in building the famous Brooklyn Bridge." Page 67: "He was now recognized as the leading civil engineer in America [circa 1880]."
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Shelf Locator
920.07 S55
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Restriction on Access
This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests
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