John Ericsson | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 05/12/2018

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John Ericsson


00:00:56 1 Early career
00:04:21 2 Education
00:04:47 3 Propeller design
00:07:40 4 Friendship with Cornelius H. DeLamater
00:09:05 5 Hot air engine
00:13:04 6 Ship design
00:13:34 7 USS iMonitor/i
00:15:44 8 Later designs
00:16:28 9 Death and ensuing controversy
00:17:37 10 Legacy
00:17:59 11 Inventions
00:18:39 12 Fellowships
00:19:04 13 Monuments and memorials
00:20:19 14 In popular culture
00:20:37 15 See also



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John Ericsson (born Johan) (July 31, 1803 – March 8, 1889) was a Swedish-American inventor, active in England and the United States, and regarded as one of the most influential mechanical engineers ever. Ericsson collaborated on the design of the steam locomotive Novelty, which competed in the Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, won by George Stephenson's Rocket. In America he designed the US  Navy's first screw-propelled steam-frigate USS Princeton, in partnership with Captain Robert Stockton, who unjustly blamed him for a fatal accident. A new partnership with Cornelius H. DeLamater of the DeLamater Iron Works in New York resulted in the first armoured ship with a rotating turret, USS Monitor, which dramatically saved the US naval blockading squadron from destruction by an ironclad Confederate vessel, CSS Virginia, at Hampton Roads in March 1862.