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A panoramic image of Eads Bridge. Keystone is best remembered for the Eads Bridge in St. Louis, completed in 1874, which survives to this day. A number of its works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. [1] Carnegie sold his company, Carnegie Steel Company to J.P. Morgan in 1901. Works include (attribution):
The Eads Bridge is a combined road and railway bridge over the Mississippi River connecting the cities of St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois.It is located on the St. Louis riverfront between Laclede's Landing to the north, and the grounds of the Gateway Arch to the south.
Carnegie, through Keystone, supplied the steel for and owned shares in the landmark Eads Bridge project across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri (completed 1874). This project was an important proof-of-concept for steel technology, which marked the opening of a new steel market. Carnegie, c. 1878
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Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned [1] American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents. [2]Eads' great Mississippi River Bridge at St. Louis was designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior in 1964 and on October 21, 1974 was listed as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American ...
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