The model is used for projects such as in open-source appropriate technologies, and open-source drug discovery. Open source promotes universal access via an open-source or free license to a product's design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint.
Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 â March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents.
The bridge is named for its designer and builder, James B. Eads. When completed in 1874, the Eads Bridge was the longest arch bridge in the world, with an overall length of 6,442 feet (1,964 m). The ribbed steel arch spans were considered daring, as was the use of steel as a primary structural material: it was the first such use of true steel in a major bridge project.