Building the glass bridge required far greater precision than a standard bridge. The steel or concrete may allow for slight imperfections, but the glass units had to fit together with near-perfect ...

James B. Eads faced many obstacles when he built the first steel bridge in the world over the Mississippi River, none of which was more daunting than the sinking of the bridges' two piers and ...

During the building of James Eads' St. Louis Bridge, several of the construction workers digging out the riverbed from inside the caissons fell ill. An alarmed Eads shortened his men's working ...