PHYSICS AND HYDRAULICS OF THE MISSISSIPI RIVER: Report of the U. S. Levee Commission. Reviewed

by James B. Eads, C.E., St. Louis, February 19, 1876 by James B. Eads

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New Orleans, LA: Picayune Steam Job Print, 1876. First edition. 8vo. 33 pp. Plan; printed slip at the title page “With the Compliments of the Author.” Eads 1820-1887 planned and headed the construction of the great bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis; hardly had this work been completed 1874 when Eads proposed to Congress to open one of the mouths of the Mississippi River in the Gulf and maintain the channel, DAB a task successfully

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