Eminent engineers; brief biographies of thirty-two of the inventors and engineers who did most to further mechanical progress (1906)
Goddard, Dwight, 1861-1939 · New York, The Derry-Collard company · leaf 142
er tofly in all directions. Several men were badly injured, andhe was not only horribly burned, but was blown againstan iron cinder car, fracturing his skull. He suftered in-tense agony for two days, and died September 28, 1889. In the resolutions ofl:ered by the managers of theCarnegie properties,… … James B. Eads1820-1887 Kindness of Louis Hoiv 140 James B. Eads. T T T In these days of gigantic enterprises, canals, bridges,tunnels and harbor improvements, it is strange that wehear nothing of ship railways, and yet that was the pro-posal in his mature years of one who was a master…
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