In the spring of 1887, worn and frail, the engineer James Buchanan Eads propped himself up in his sick bed to revise plans for his latest project. Outside the window he could hear the sound of waves ...

Few words distressed navigators more than “the bar” — referring to the sandbar that regularly obstructed the mouth of the Mississippi River — until a remarkable engineer from St. Louis solved the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. St. Louisans may take the Eads Bridge for granted. But 150 years ago, it was considered one of the wonders of the modern world, ...

1920 James Buchanan Eads is elected to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. 1932 Deans of American Colleges of Engineering name Eads one of the five greatest engineers of all time, ranking him ...

James Buchanan Eads was in charge of the project, despite having no experience at bridge building. The first bridge to span the Mississippi was a railroad bridge at Rock Island, completed in 1855. By ...

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis residents may know the name “Eads” because of the bridge built by the James Buchanan Eads, who worked on Mississippi River steamboats in the early 1800s. James Eads How, St.

You will likely recognize Eads Plaza by the name it was given in the 1960s: Spanish Plaza. For more than 40 years before that, its name honored James Buchanan Eads, an engineer credited with improving ...

James Buchanan Eads was born May 23, 1820, in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. His family moved to St. Louis in 1833, and the steamboat they were on caught fire when it landed. They lost everything except the ...

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James Buchanan Eads was born May 23, 1820, in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. His family moved to St. Louis in 1833, and the steamboat they were on caught fire when it landed.