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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bridges. (search)
Bridges. The most notable ones in United States history are: Arch bridges. St. Louis Bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis, Mo.; three arches formed of tubes of cast-steel, and built out from the piers without scaffolding: the centre span, 520 feet; the others. 502 feet each; 2,200 tons of steel and 3,400 tons of iron were used in its construction. Built by Col. James B. Eads at a cost of $10,000,000. Begun 1867, and completed July 4. 1874. High Bridge, across the Harlem River, in New York City; built to carry the Croton aqueduct across the river. It consists of thirteen arches, and is 1,460 feet long. Washington Bridge, across the Harlem River. just north of High Bridge; consists of nine arches, three of granite on the east side, four of granite on the west, and two steel arches spanning the river. This bridge is 2,400 feet long and 80 feet wide; completed in 1888. Suspension bridges. Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, across the gorge, 2 miles below the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Eads, James Buchanan, 1820- (search)
Eads, James Buchanan, 1820- Engineer; born in Lawrenceburg, Ind., May 23, 1820. His controlling genius was manifested in early childhood. His first invention tus for recovering vessels with their cargoes from the muddy depths of a river. Eads made a fortune by it. In 1861 he was employed by the national government to consmed mighty deeds during the Civil War. At the beginning of July, 1874, James Buchanan Eads. he completed a magnificent iron railroad bridge across the Mississippi channel was necessary to prevent the continual grounding of vessels upon it. Captain Eads was the first to suggest that this laborious and expensive dredging process e South Pass, the narrowest of the three channels of the Mississippi delta. Captain Eads wished to try his experiment on the Southwest Pass, the deepest and widest c0,000 cubic yards; concrete, 9,000 tons; piling and lumber, 12,000,000 feet. Captain Eads's plan has been proved to be very successful, for the banks of the jetty con
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Engineering. (search)
i itself to the Gulf of Mexico, is a logical sequence of the first project. The Nicaragua Canal would then form one part of a great line of navigation, by which the products of the interior of the continent could reach either the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean. The cost would be small compared with the resulting benefits, and some day this navigation will be built by the government of the United States. The deepening of the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River from 6 to 30 feet by James B. Eads was a great engineering achievement. It was the first application of the jetty system on a large scale. This is merely confining the flow of a river, and thus increasing its velocity so that it secures a deeper channel for itself. The improvement of harbors follows closely the increased size of ocean and lake vessels. The approach to New York Harbor is now being deepened to 40 feet, a thing impossible to be done without the largest application of steam machinery in a suction dredge
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tehuantepec ship Railway. (search)
Tehuantepec ship Railway. Early in 1881 Capt. James B. Eads, who had won considerable reputation as an engineer in building the great bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis, and also in constructing the system of jetties at the mouth of that river, obtained from the Mexican government the right to build a ship railway across the isthmus of Tehuantepec. That government also promised him a large grant of money and land, and he immediately made application to Congress for further aid toe reports. When he was altogether worn out with the struggle to obtain due recognition for his scheme, the Forty-ninth Congress partially consented to incorporate his company. A bill was passed by the Senate Feb. 17, 1887, which constituted James B. Eads and some eighty other persons named as a body politic under the name and title of the Atlantic and Pacific Ship Railway Company. The stock was not to exceed $100,000,000, and when 10 per cent. of the stock had been subscribed for and 10 per
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
anish government for families of men shot in the Virginius massacre fixed at $80,000......Feb. 27, 1875 Civil rights bill, to enforce equal enjoyment of inns, public conveyances, theatres, etc., approved......March 1, 1875 Contract with James B. Eads for jettywork at the mouth of the Mississippi River, by act......March 3, 1875 Enabling act for Colorado passed......March 3, 1875 Supplementary immigration act passed......March 3, 1875 Act authorizing 20-cent pieces of silver....d......March 3, 1887 Act for return and recoinage at par of trade dollars......March 3, 1887 Forty-ninth Congress adjourns......March 3, 1887 Henry Ward Beecher, stricken with apoplexy, March 2, dies in Brooklyn......March 8, 1887 James B. Eads, engineer, born 1820, dies at Nassau, N. P.......March 8, 1887 Inter-State commerce commission appointed by the President......March 22, 1887 Transatlantic yacht race from Sandy Hook to Queenstown, between the Coronet and Dauntless, won
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
rbance in Tensas and Concordia parishes, resulting in killing a man named Peck, and the wounding by his companions of three colored men; investigated by Congress......1878 By act of Congress, March 3, 1875, a contract was made with Capt. James Buchanan Eads for the construction of jettywork at the mouth of the South Pass in the Mississippi River, to secure and maintain a navigable channel 200 feet wide and 20 feet deep. Captain Eads's work has already resulted in a clear channel of the reCaptain Eads's work has already resulted in a clear channel of the required width and deeper than the 20 feet specified......1878 Constitutional convention at New Orleans frames a constitution. Capital changed from New Orleans to Baton Rouge......April 21, 1879 Louis A. Wiltz, Democrat, elected governor, and the new constitution ratified by the people......Dec. 8, 1879 Debt ordinance, fixing the interest on consolidated State bonds at 2 1/2 per cent. for five years, 3 per cent. for fifteen years, and 4 per cent. thereafter, and limit of State tax fixed
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Missouri, (search)
sued in 1852 and falling due in 1872, redeemable in gold or silver coin, be redeemed in legaltender notes......Feb. 8, 1872 Seventy or eighty masked men stop a railroad train at Gun City, Cass county, and murder Judge J. C. Stephenson, Thomas E. Detro, and James C. Cline, charged with complicity in the fraudulent issue of railroad bonds, which imposed a heavy burden upon the tax-payers in that county......April 24, 1872 Railroad bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis, designed by James B. Eads and constructed by the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge Company, formally opened......July 4, 1874 State railroad commission created by act of legislature......March 27, 1875 Ordinance passed by legislature to prevent the payment of 1,918 bonds and coupons of $1,000 each, executed by the Pacific Railroad of Missouri under a law of Dec. 10, 1855, which had disappeared, but had not been cancelled or destroyed......Oct. 30, 1875 New constitution framed by a State convention which sat