Eads, James Buchanan, an American engineer, born in Laurenceburg, Indiana; designed ingenious boats for floating submerged ships; built with remarkable speed warships for the Federalists in 1861; constructed a steel bridge spanning the Mississippi at St. Louis, noteworthy for its central span of 520 ft. (1820‒1887).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Eadric * Eagle