Here. They came on a river boat that caught fire before it reached the war of. The stack fell and sent embers all over the boat and it caught fire and proceeded to sink. They had to come through the mississippi to the last few yards to get here. They lost everything and james eads grew up on and in this river. At a very young age, he had to help provide for his family. James decided at age 16 he would try to work the river. So he got some jobs on river boats where he was a clerk, what they called a mud clerk. He kept the books. He went up and down the river on these boats that were transporting led to other communities all the way up to near wisconsin. He had a lot of experience as a teenager really, knowing what the river was about. At least from the topside and eventually he makes a decision in his life that he can do is advantagesalvage work. There were common occurrences that it would be hit by snags. The river boat pilot cannot see the trees or limbs in the water. The boat will st
Look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch with authors in the near future on booktv, and on booktv. Org. Welcome to st. Louis on booktv. Located on the west bank of the mississippi river, it was the starting point for the lewis and Clark Expedition in 1804, and the city where the historic dred scott trial began. I spent five years researching the people of the cemetery but my research was based upon 60 years of research, they had ten statistics with primary sources. Even though i worked on it 8, 10 hours a day i could never have completed this without their wonderful work, the gatekeeper and superintendent, so appreciative of them. The book contains sections which tell the history of the city of st. Louis. Each section contains biographies. Altogether there are 80 biographies. I wrote biographies of people buried in this cemetery. Some of my favorites are people in changed the world such as William Clark of the lewis and Clark Expedition the changed the way we live
From here. One of my personal favorites is james eads, who built the eads bridge. He taught himself from age 13 onward out to copulate structures and that sort of thing. Forme basically how to structures and that sort of thing. And he basically taught himself how to build a stable tableting machine. He would go down and salvage these and sell them, so the eads bridge was significant because the time it was the longest arched bridge in the world at over 6000 feet long, and people were kind of terrified of it. They really did not have a lot of faith in it. Today we think steel is very strong. They thought it looked like a skeleton and was ready to fall over at any time under its own weight, so eads was really impressive to me just because of a National Story associate with him but also the fact that he taught himself how to become an engineer. Gerty cori is one of our selections. She came from prague with her family. Her husband got a job, and even though she had the same qualifications
LBB Presents: John K. Brown - Spanning the Gilded Age Left Bank Books presents John K. Brown to discuss his new book "Spanning the Gilded Age: James Eads and the Great Steel Bridge." Join us at Schlafly Public Library on Thursday, May 23, at 6pm as we celebrate the fascinating history of the St. Louis Bridge, the first steel structure in the world, completed in 1874. This history details the origins, design, construction, and enduring impact of a unique feat of engineering, and it illustrates how Americans built their urban infrastructure during the nineteenth century. Brown will personalize and sign copies after the presentation!