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 was a self-educated engineer who had been a partner in the boat building company of Case and Nelson. During the Civil War, he had been called to Washington, where he was commissioned to build several ironclad gun boats within just sixty-five days. He was successful.