Eads Bridge

Photograph by J. Wayman Williams


Photograph by J. Wayman Williams
Designer: James Buchanan Eads
Location: Over the Mississippi at St. Louis, Missouri
Built: 1867-1874
Type: Arch bridge
Dimensions: Center spans: 520 feet (158.50 m)
Material: Steel

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References:

The Eads Bridge, with texts by Petr C. Bunnell, David P. Billington, J. Wayman Williams Jr., John A. Kouwenhoven, James B. Eads. Catalog to an exhibition held at the Princeton University Art Museum, October 13 to November 10, 1974. Princeton (NJ)< 1974.

 Billington, David P. The Tower and the Bridge, Princeton University Press, Princeton (NJ), 1983, pp. 113-117.

 Picon, Antoine (ed.) L'art de l'ingénieur, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris (France), 1997; pp. 159-160.

 Scott, Quinta The Eads Bridge, University of Missouri Press, 1979.
 
 

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