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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 25 3 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 23 1 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 22 2 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 17 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 12 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 1 1 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for James B. Eads or search for James B. Eads in all documents.

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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Breakwater, (search)
Breakwater, In civil engineering, a construction struction in deep water to protect an anchorage for vessels during storms and for other purposes. They are technically classified as sloping, composite, and vertical. The most notable breakwater in the United States is at the entrance of Delaware Bay, which cost considerably over $2,000,000. There are others at Galveston, Tex.; at Buffalo, Chicago, and Oswego, on the Great Lakes, and at several ports of entry in the Southern States, which have been constructed by the federal government since the close of the Civil War. The Eads jetties, below New Orleans, are practically a breakwater construction, although built for a different purpose.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mississippi River. (search)
following apportionment of the congressional appropriation of $2,250,000 for the improvement of the river in 1900-1 gives an idea of the character and costliness of the work: Upper St. Francis Levee District$20,000 Lower St. Francis Levee District114,500 White River Levee District$50,000 Upper Yazoo Levee District94,000 Lower Yazoo Levee District150,000 Upper Tansas Levee District300,000 Lower Tansas Levee District110,000 Atchafa Levee District55,000 La Fourche Levee District28,000 Barataria Levee District14,000 Lake Borgne Levee District14,500 Dredges and dredging400,000 Surveys and observations40,000 Plum Point Reach80,000 Hopefield Point50,000 Ashbrook Neck70,000 Lake Providence Revetment75,000 Kemple Bend Revetment150,000 Giles Bend Revetment150,000 For surveys15,000 Plant75,000 The Eads jetties at the mouth of the river form one of the grandest and most successful triumphs of engineering skill in the interest of inland navigation to be found anywhere.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morgan, John Tyler 1824- (search)
when the sea-level plan was abandoned, the future use of the canal would be embarrassed with the other insurmountable difficulties thus graphically presented by Mr. Eads in his testimony before the House select committee, on the same hearing (Mis. Doc. 10). Mr. Eads says: Any one who contemplates the depth of the proposed Mr. Eads says: Any one who contemplates the depth of the proposed cut through the several miles of the Cordilleras, and thinks of the frightful rains and tempests which prevail during six months of the year, can form some faint conception, perhaps, of the amount of material which would be washed down the side of this immense cut, as well as from all other parts of the canal, and which must be cotatements equally worthy of credit show that no work in that locality could be maintained against the destructive floods which would suddenly rush through, what Mr. Eads describes as, the narrow and tortuous stream which Count de Lesseps proposes to locate at the bottom of an artificial cañon to be cut through the Cordilleras at
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tehuantepec ship Railway. (search)
report, however, was laid upon the table by an overwhelming vote, and thus for the time being the consideration of the merits of the project was prevented. Captain Eads estimated the cost of the railway over the Tehuantepec route, 112 miles in length, at $75,000,000. He claimed that wherever a canal could be built a strong raie Tehuantepec in preference to the Panama route. In the fall of 1881, and in 1882, a corps of engineers were employed in surveying this route. However, all Captain Eads obtained from the Forty-sixth or the two subsequent congresses was favorable committee reports. When he was altogether worn out with the struggle to obtain du not subscribed for and 10 per cent. in cash paid thereon within two years, the charter —so the bill declared—must expire by limitation. This bill did not get through the House, however, being lost in the rush of legislation before adjournment, and as Captain Eads died March 8 following, nothing was accomplished with his sch