The St. Louis women's publication Central Magazineclaimed that "James B. Eads is the greatest engineer on the American continent and his work, the great St. Louis Bridge is the greatest ...

James B. Eads faced many obstacles when he built the first steel bridge in the world over the Mississippi River, none of which was more daunting than the sinking of the bridges' two piers and ...

Eads buys five snag-boats offered for sale by the U.S. government and converts them into salvage boats. J. B. Bissell, John How, James Lucas and John O'Fallon organize the St. Louis and Illinois ...

If it weren't for a bundle of letters handed down from one generation to the next, Martha Dillon, James Eads' first wife would remain a total mystery. She left little else behind -- just one ...

The Eads Bridge, with texts by Petr C. Bunnell, David P. Billington, J. Wayman Williams Jr., John A. Kouwenhoven, James B. Eads. Catalog to an exhibition held at the Princeton University Art Museum, ...