Literally out my window, the Eads Bridge over the Mississippi.
It's a famous bridge in engineering history, completed in 1874, still there, still in use. I'm looking at it now, late afternoon light, a blue bowl of sky over it, the flat midwestern horizon behind. This afternooon (not this picture) there's even the moon, about 7/8 full.
Eads's drawings are here at Washington University and they are as amazing as the bridge.
But there is nothing quite as amazing as James Buchanan Eads himself.
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