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From 1829 to 1834 he was the chief engineer of the South Carolina Railway , at that time the longest railway in the world (about 150 miles/241 km). He was the inventor of the so-called "swiveling truck" for railway cars. He wrote: ''The Railroad Era; First Five Years of its Development'', (1884). In his other activities, from 1838 to 1842 he was principal assistant engineer of the Croton Aqueduct for supplying water to New York City ; in 1842 he became connected with the New York Novelty Works , which furnished engines for nearly all the American and many foreign war vessels and steamships of the time; at various times chief engineer and president of the Erie Railway ; consulting engineer for the Panama Railway and the Brooklyn Bridge ; and in 1872 and 1873 was president of the American Society Of Civil Engineers . PUBLICATION
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