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 Hall was the gift of Captain Eads's daughter Mrs. James Finney How. Each year the Academy of Science of St. Louis awards the James B. Eads Award recognizing a distinguished individual for outstanding achievement in science and technology. Eads is recognized with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.