James Buchanan Eads
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Captain James Buchanan Eads was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents.
Photograph portrait of Martha Dillon Eads, wife of James B. Eads.
Eads Bridge, St. Louis
1888 color lithograph of J. B. Eads, made for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes
USS Pittsburgh (1861)
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USS Pittsburgh was a City-class ironclad gunboat constructed for the Union Army by James B. Eads during the American Civil War, and transferred to the Union Navy in October 1862. She was commissioned in January 1862, Commander Egbert Thompson in command.
Pittsburgh and Carondelet destroy Confederate batteries below New Madrid