James B. Eads
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Chapter 1 - Early Training
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Chapter 2 - The Gunboats
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Chapter 3 - The Bridge
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Chapter 4 - The Jetties
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Chapter 5 - The Ship-Railway
17:02
James B. Eads (1900) is a public domain work.
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A boy's fascination with a steamboat engine opens Louis How's account of James Buchanan Eads, whose working life became closely tied to the Mississippi River. The early chapters follow his experiments with small machines, his family's difficult arrival in Saint Louis and the work that helped him support them. Access to an employer's library allows him to study engineering after his formal schooling ends.
Published in 1900, the biography connects this practical education with projects involving gunboats, a bridge, jetties and a proposed ship railway. The bridge section explains why Eads wanted foundations on bedrock and chose long steel arches to limit the number of costly piers. How also describes opposition to the plans, tests of materials and the contribution of trained assistants.
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Book facts
- Author
- Louis How
- Reading time
- About 100 minutes
- Pages
- 47
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Engineering
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Barry Eads