Episode 8 James Eads' Boatworks
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If you've heard of James Eads, it's likely because you're familiar with the bridge he designed, which spans the Mississippi River at St. Louis. But before Eads built a bridge over the Mississippi, he built ironclad gunboats that patrolled it for Union forces during the Civil War.
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