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Ellet, Charles
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known as the Brunel of America
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| Civil engineer, born in Penn's Manor, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied bridge engineering in Paris, returning in 1832 to the USA. He built the first wire suspension bridges in America, including one over the Schuylkill R at Fairmount (1842) and another over the Ohio R at Wheeling (1849). He also constructed the James River and Kanawha Canal. During the Civil War he advocated and demonstrated the use of ram-boats, built and commanded a fleet of them on the Mississippi, and captured Memphis (1862), but was killed in action. |
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