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An absorbing tale of grand dreams, shady politics, daring engineering experiments, greed, ambition, and westward expansion, Rails across the Mississippi is the first book-length history since 1881 to document the planning, financing, and construction of the first bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, a national engineering landmark completed in 1874 that is now known as the Eads Bridge. Robert W. Jackson takes a fresh look at this monumental project, dispersing the myths and filling in the gaps left by earlier scholarship. When James B. Eads outlined his plan for a bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, critics said that the genius did not exist in the country capable of erecting such a structure. Instead of the tried-and-true iron truss bridge, Eads--who was not a trained engineer and had no experience designing or building bridges--proposed a radical design that shattered engineering an arch bridge longer than any in existence using steel, a material thought unsuitable for long-span bridges by virtually every engineer in America and Europe. Rails across the Mississippi explores how Eads took on the task of building the bridge as he envisioned it and how he me

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Author

Robert Wendell Jackson

Publisher

Urbana: University of Illinois Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780252026805

Category

hobbies

Subjects

Technology, Engineering, History

Rating

4.8 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14