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James Buchanan Eads The Submarine No. 7. In the early days of the Civil War, before it was certain that the secession movement had been thwarted in St. Louis, and before it was known that Kentucky would remain in the Union, James B. Eads offered one of his salvage vessels, Submarine No. 7, to the Federal government for conversion to a warship for service on the western rivers.
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 ...
The Texas Killing Fields is a title used to roughly denote the area surrounding the Interstate Highway 45 corridor southeast of Houston, where since the early 1970s, more than 30 bodies have been found, and specifically to a 25- acre patch of land in League City, Texas [ 1] where four women were found between 1983 and 1991.
Airbus Group Inc. is a prime contractor to the U.S. Army on the service's new UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopter. The Lakota is based on the commercial EC145. Under terms of a contract awarded in June 2006, Airbus Group Inc. has already delivered more than 200 out of a planned 351 aircraft. [citation needed]
History. In 1984, brothers Robert and Leland Ackerley founded Smith, which is now the largest independent distributor of electronic components and ranks 6th among all global distributors, [ 1] in the semiconductor and electronic components industry. The 1990s saw marked growth for the company. In 1992, Smith's annual sales were $30 million; by ...
Colonel Joseph F. Roos. The Eastern Air Defense Sector ( EADS) is a United States Air Force unit of Air Combat Command (ACC), permanently assigned to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). A joint, bi-national military organization, EADS is composed of US and Canadian military forces, federal civilians and contractors.
Since being released by Jacksonville, Gipson has played for three different teams, including the Houston Texans (2019), Chicago Bears (2020-21) and the San Francisco 49ers (2022-23).
Ralph D. Crosby Jr. Ralph Dozier Crosby Jr. [1] (born September 23, 1947) [2] was president and CEO of EADS North America - now known as the Airbus Group, Inc - from 2002 to 2009. [3] He is a board member of Airbus and of American Electric Power. [4] [5]