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American Experience; Secrets of a Master Builder
09/01/2000
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- Series
- American Experience
- Program
- Secrets of a Master Builder
- Program Number
1303C1
- Series Description
Premiered October 1988 As television's longest-running, most-watched history series, American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation. Now in its eighteenth season, the series has produced over 180 programs and garnered every major broadcast award. Series release date: 10/1988
- Program Description
A giant of inventiveness and reasoning, a self-made man and one of America's greatest engineers, James Buchanan Eads led a life inextricably linked with the nation's most important waterway, the Mississippi River. He explored the river bottom in a diving bell of his own design; made a fortune salvaging wrecks; built the world's first steel bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis; and deepened the river at its mouth, turning New Orleans into the second largest port in the nation. By the time of his death, Eads was widely acknowledged to be one of the most influential men of his day. David McCullough narrates. Written, produced and directed by Carl Charlson.
- Duration
00:56:46
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- History
- Citation
- Chicago: “American Experience; Secrets of a Master Builder,” 09/01/2000, GBH Archives, accessed October 11, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_11C310636D0C4607893E95C4798A98F8.
- MLA: “American Experience; Secrets of a Master Builder.” 09/01/2000. GBH Archives. Web. October 11, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_11C310636D0C4607893E95C4798A98F8>.
- APA: American Experience; Secrets of a Master Builder. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_11C310636D0C4607893E95C4798A98F8