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John B. Jervis

John B. Jervis Books

Civil engineer

John B. Jervis was an outstanding civil engineer who made significant contributions during the American Industrial Revolution. His career spanned various fields such as bridge, canal, and railway engineering, and his design philosophy and technological innovations had a profound impact on engineers to come.

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“No price is too great to preserve the health of the fleet.”

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“No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything.”

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“The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction in which there is comparatively little doing.”

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Book:A TREATISE ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF RAILWAYS

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About the Author

Born: December 14, 1795
Died: January 12, 1885
Known for: Civil engineer
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