The people who told him, you can't build the most difficult bridge because you've never built a bridge before. He said, yes, I can, because I'm an American and I'm going to do it myself. It was the first on the planet, that bridge to be made of steel. And residents of St. Louis still use that bridge to this very day, nearly 200, 100 years later. That is American ingenuity and American greatness. (13:13–13:18)
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Asserts that the bridge built by Eads was the first steel bridge in the world.
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