C-SPAN Cities Tour - St. Louis: Historic Eads Bridge

[@brodie29a]

Even thou the arch is now the symbol of stl, those of us that live in the area are still very well aware of the eads bridge and we treasure it. If I’m not mistaken trains still use this bridge to this day (car traffic too but it’s low level car traffic thanks to other bridges)

[@aneimn]

did a high school term paper on the building of this bridge. The steel tube sections were 5 percent chrome steel, revolutionary for the time.

[@glencoe6305]

James Eads, was a Genius. Can you imagine what went in to even building the Piers for this Bridge ? He ought to have his likeness on a Postage Stamp.

[@carolynroseogyda]

CSPAN does such quality presentations . . thank you CSPAN what a treasure you are ...

[@jeffwebb2966]

He was very brave apparently to go down in a wooden bell like that..wow. I heard from other stories he was very dynamic and inspiring to get others to support his ideas.

[@manologocho]

Excellent i wish to see photos of the international expo of 1904 and those amazing buldings that architech kessler made

[@jeffwebb2966]

They have since refurbished the bridge and painted it since this video. It looks great and is a wonderful neighbor of the arch grounds and national park.

[@gloriamorris6400]

Wow ! this is an amazing and wonderful story! Thank you for this video!

[@erikmcc804]

Wow I used work on the admiral when a tug boat hit and sent us by the arch so sad and scary in 1995

[@daviddorrell5819]

This guy sees everything but the big picture.

[@trippeads5081]

He was my great great grand father don’t believe me my last names Eads are og name was Buchanan my name is James Eads to

[@bjrizen2188]

You have a relative name Victoria Eads that posted 9 months ago.

[@victoriaeads6126]

I'm his direct descendent.

[@alcopower5710]

Really.....that’s neat. Do you reside in St Louis?

[@victoriaeads6126]

@@alcopower5710 No, I live in Virginia. My family spread out quite a bit, my great grandfather grew up in Marion, Indiana and came East to NYC as a reporter on Eisenhower's whistle stop tour. He ended up becoming Day City Editor for the NYC Associated Press.... I've got some really interesting ancestors 😂

[@bjrizen2188]

You have a relative name Tripp Eads that posted a year ago.

[@hatzlmike1]

Bravos

[@jscottupton]

Men like Carnegie and Eads are too few and far between these days.

[@thomashollingsworth5618]

The way I heard it, Carnegie was a rapscallion. A robber baron. He delivered inferior "steel" parts. Eads went out to the factory and found that the so-called engineer responsible for Carnegie's work didn't even know what a modulus of elasticity was let alone what their product was capable of in compression. Eads sent for one of his testing machines. He told Carnegie's men to put the part on the machine, run the machine up to a certain point and if the part was still the same shape after being on the machine, Eads would accept it. Six months of bad parts later he went back and found Carnegie's men testing the bridge parts with sledgehammers and his testing machine gathering dust. Carnegie wanted more money so Eads paid it.

[@jeffwebb2966]

I wish the city would clean up the stonework a little bit!

[@echohotel7975]

Harry Houdini jumped off that bridge

[@QuaaludeCharlie]

Just Wow :) QC

[@aneimn]

Did my high school term paper on this bridge in 1949 and it had way more useful info than this video.

[@daviddorrell5819]

aneimn What else could we expect from this curator of bullshit? He couldn’t be an actual politician but he learned to speak like one. And isn’t that special?

[@noblehillministerprophet8689]

Did Carnige build this bridge?

[@SmallMartingale]

Did you even watch the video??? LoL

[@MileyonDisney]

This guy needs to work on his "uh"s.

[@juicylemons6671]

Welp

[@juicylemons6671]

Erm