John Bloomfield Jervis was an American civil engineer. America's leading consulting engineer of the antebellum era (1820–60), Jervis designed and supervised the construction of five of America's earliest railroads, was chief engineer of three major canal projects, designed the famous, pioneering, DeWitt Clinton steam locomotive in 1831 while with the Mohawk & Hudson RR, designed the first locomotive with a swiveling 4-wheeled front bogie truck in 1832 for the M&H RR, designed and built the 41-mile Croton Aqueduct – New York City's fresh water supply from 1842 to 1891 – and was a consulting engineer for the Boston water system.
Jervis's steam locomotive, Experiment, was the first locomotive with a truck, which guides the locomotive into curves while also supporting the smokebox
The High Bridge over the Harlem River, part of the Croton Aqueduct, in 1890
1401 John B. Jervis
A bogie is a chassis or framework that carries a wheelset, attached to a vehicle—a modular subassembly of wheels and axles. Bogies take various forms in various modes of transport. A bogie may remain normally attached or be quickly detachable. It may include a suspension component within it, or be solid and in turn be suspended ; it may be mounted on a swivel, as traditionally on a railway carriage or locomotive, additionally jointed and sprung, or held in place by other means.
A railway bogie
Experiment, the first successful American locomotive with a bogie, built in 1831 to a design by civil engineer John B. Jervis
Japanese archbar bogie with axleboxes
Diamond frame bogie, elliptical springs and American style journal boxes