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John B. Jervis, an American engineering pioneer

Name: John B. Jervis, an American engineering pioneer
Author: F. Daniel Larkin

by F. Daniel Larkin

Biography & Memoir

1990

The life of the man who engineered the Erie Canal, New York City's first comprehensive water system (the Croton Aqueduct), the Delaware and Hudson Canal, and many other engineering projects throughout New York State.

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