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- Title: James B. Eads
- Author : Louis How
- Release Date : January 01, 1947
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 122 KB
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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 was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, [3] and named for his mother's cousin, future President of the United States James Buchanan. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. James Eads was largely self-educated; at the age of 13, he left school to take up work to help support the family. One of his first jobs was at the Williams & Duhring dry-goods store run by Barrett Williams. Williams allowed the young Eads to spend time in his library, located above the store. In Eads's spare time, he read books on physical science, mechanics, machinery, and civil engineering. Eads made his initial fortune in salvage, by creating a diving bell for retrieving goods from the bottom of rivers that were sunk there by riverboat disasters, especially along the busy Mississippi River. He also devised special boats for raising the remains of sunken ships from the river bed. Because of his detailed knowledge of the Mississippi (the equal of any professional river pilot), his exceptional ability at navigating the most treacherous parts of the river system, and his personal fleet of snag-boats and salvage craft, he was afforded the much prized courtesy title of 'Captain' by the rivermen of the Mississippi and was addressed as Captain Eads throughout his life.
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