JAMES BUCHANAN EADS (1820-1887)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V08,
Page 789
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also: - JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
American engineer, was born at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, on the 23rd of May 182o
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His first engineering work of any importance was in raising sunken steamers
.
In 1845 he established glass works in St See also: - LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
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During the Civil War he constructed ironclad steamers and mortar boats for the Federal government
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His next important engineering achievement was the construction of the great steel arch bridge across the Mississippi at St Louis (see BRIDGE, fig
.
29), upon which he was engaged from 1867 till 1874
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The work, however, upon which his reputation principally rests was his deepening and fixing the channel at the mouths of the Mississippi by means of jetties, whereby the narrowed stream was made to scour out its own channel and carry the sediment out to sea
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Shortly before his death he projected a See also: - SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
for a ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in lieu of an isthmian canal
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He died at Nassau, in the Bahamas, on the 8th of March 1887
.
End of Article: JAMES BUCHANAN EADS (1820-1887)
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