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Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB, PC (9 January 1735 – 13 March 1823) was an admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Jervis served throughout the latter half of the 18th century and into the 19th, and was an active commander during the Seven Years' War , American War of ...
John Jervis. John Jervis GCB, PC [ 1] ( Meaford Hall, Staffordshire, 9 de janeiro de 1735 — Brentwood, 13 de março de 1823 ), 1.º Conde de St Vincent, foi um almirante da Marinha Real Britânica e membro do Parlamento do Reino Unido. O conde St Vincent prestou serviço durante toda a o final da segunda metade do século XVIII e ...
John Jervis 1st Earl of St. Vincent 1735-1823. He was born on 9 January 1735 at Meaford Hall in Staffordshire, the second and younger son of a barrister-at-law, Swynfen Jervis.
John Jervis was the second of four children of Swynfen Jervis of Meaford in Stone, Staffordshire. Jervis was educated at Burton-upon-Trent grammar school and at the Reverend Samuel Swinden’s academy in Greenwich from 1742.
At the age of 60, Jervis was an immensely experienced seaman who quickly recognized Nelson’s qualities and who regarded Nelson “more as an associate than a subordinate Officer.” The arrival of Jervis coincided with an upsurge…
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John Bloomfield Jervis was born in 1795 at Huntington, New York, on Long Island, the son of Timothy Jervis, a carpenter, and Phoebe Bloomfield, the eldest of seven children. Jervis moved with his family to Fort Stanwix (later known as Rome) in upstate New York in 1798when his father purchased a farm and ran a lumber business.: 5 In October 1817 at ...
Jervis steam locomotive
Jervis's first steam locomotive design was the DeWitt Clinton while working as chief engineer for the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad in 1831. The following year he built the Experiment (later renamed the Brother Jonathan), the first steam locomotive with a leading bogie, a four-wheel leading truck that guides the locomotive into curves. This 4-2-0 locomotive, which had two powered driving wheels on a rear axle underneath the locomotive's firebox, became known as the Jervis type. The Mohawk & Huds...
Croton Aqueduct
In 1836, Jervis was chosen as the chief engineer on the 41-mile Croton Aqueduct, which operated from 1842 to 1865, bringing fresh water to New York City. Many of Jervis's original diagrams for this project are now preserved at both the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The High Bridge which still stands across the Harlem River in New York City, connecting Manhattan and the Bronx, was part of this project.
Upon his death, Jervis bequeathed his homestead to the city of Rome to use as the location for a public library. His personal library now forms the John B. Jervis collection of the Jervis Public Library. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.In 1927, the Delaware and Hudson Railroad built an experimental steam ...
Railway Property(1859)The Construction and Management of Railways(1861)Labor and Capital(1877)Notes Further reading 1. Jervis, John B. (1971). FitzSimons, Neal (ed.). The Reminiscences of John B. Jervis. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York. ISBN 0-8156-0077-1. 2. Larkin, F. Daniel (1990). John B. Jervis: An American Engineering Pioneer. Iowa State University Press. ISBN 0-8138-0355-1. 3. Museum of the City of New York, The Croton ...
Profile. Born: 19 January 1734. Died: 13 March 1823. Gender: Male. Share. Associated archives. Item AND/19/16. The Royal Academy of Arts, located in the heart of London, is a place where art is made, exhibited and debated.
