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Eads, James Buchanan (1820–1887)| US engineer and inventor. He invented a diving bell and went into the salvage business, recovering cargo and machinery from sunken river steamboats, and making himself a fortune. He designed the impressive Eads Bridge across the Mississippi River. |
| He was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, the self-educated son of a nomadic, not very prosperous merchant. After President Lincoln personally asked for his help, he built eight ironclad gunboats that enabled Union forces to take control of the Kentucky-Tennessee River systems. His Eads Bridge, together with his engineering and navigation improvements to the mouth of the Mississippi, raised him to the front rank of engineers of his era. |
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