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.
Eads was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and named for his mother's cousin, future President of the United States James Buchanan. He grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. James Eads was largely self-educated; at the age of 13, he left school to take up work to help support the family.