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Eads built jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi in 1879. What is left of them today?
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Scroll through a chronology of Eads' life, from his birth in 1820 to his death in 1887 as well as a record of his footprint until 2001.
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See the bridge construction drawings preserved in the special collections of the library at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Carnegie spent a large portion of his wealth setting up more than 2,500 public libraries and supporting universities and colleges, his main philanthropic priorities. By the time of his death in 1919, the handloom weaver's son had given away $350 million.
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James Eads married Eunice Hagerman Eads on May 2, 1854, a year and a half after his first wife Martha Dillon Eads died of Cholera in 1852.
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Engineer James Eads was born on May 23, 1820, in Lawrenceburg, Indiana.
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Read about the relationship between Ulysses Grant, Civil War general and U.S. president, and James Eads.
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Glory on the battlefeild and establishing his reputation as a military leader drove Humphreys throughout his career.
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Find out more about caisson disease, the 1874 opening of the St. Louis Bridge, the St. Louis Fire of 1849, and steamboat disasters.
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An interview with Prof. Andrew J. Dunar, who teaches history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.Â
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Joseph Strauss hoped to pursue a career in the arts, but he helped create one of the most famous bridges in the world.
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Irving Morrow romanticized the Golden Gate long before he became a consulting architect on the bridge that would span it.
