The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-10-11
CAPT. JOHN ERICSSON.
4 Great Man at Eighty. Who Ha,
Boon Doing Remarkable Things
All His IA0A


milwaukee, Sentinel
II, In reply to the question an to who n the
most remarkable Of living mon one should
name Capt. John Ericsson, who~c cightioth
birthday was celebrated ut his homo In New
York last Tuesday. II would not he difficult to
support the claim by strong evidence. Cor
tainly he Ia tho greatest Of unknown men
OF men whose names ar not familiar In every
household John Ericsson Il generally known
els IAN inventor who drew tho plans Tor the
Monitor" Tho many groat facts Of his life
ale not In common recollection For seventy
years hc has ben doing remarkable thingA
which have had Evolutionary effect on nc
ccptei systems He was born In SWEDEN,
and before he YVES II years old h. had pro-
ducei q sawinill whose ingenious construction
challenged the admiration OF exportencci
men, and had designed pumping engine
which Nseived the npA0val OF the president
Of the (sotha Ship Canal company. Many of
the important works On this canal were CON.
ssluctel from drawings made by Ericsson 10
fore he was ID years old. While still y
boy he invented name engine which worked
up to tenhorso power. At tAoage of " no
went u England, wher. he invented nuiner-
Gus engines the principles Of which arc still
applied: apparatus for making salt from
brine; mechanism for prop,li,S hnat, on
carals;a variety ofno.o,> aesuatal hy steam
or hot air; Z hydro~tatic weighing machine,
for which he received prize; an instrument
now tn us for taking sauniings; tllc cut.
ting machine AMI various others He first
applied the principle of centrifugal fan'hlow.
efs In use on ni,s.t stssin vessels.
Ericsson first introduced into locomotive
built by him the principle of artificial draft,
10 which We are indebted for tho develop
ment Of the modern railway system
Htephensons sharls~t competitor for tho
prize OF isaa was John Ericsson who, la the
short period Of seven weeks invented and
built an engine which ran u, the rate Of thirty
miles an hour, Stcphensons making only lSsf
miles The London Times Of iitty-fou years
ago says the speed of the other engines was
surpassed by that OF John Ericsson, II il
impracticallc 10 even mention IN newrlaa.
per article the various important inventions
Of this great man. lie drew the first plan for
= steam tiic engine forty .thNe years agu, He
constructs! a oalnric engine which attracted
the attention of tho scientific world
and which carried a vessel over the
Atlantic and back. Tho world OWES
the introduction Of the screw propeller 70
Ericsson. After demonstrating the utility Of
the serow 10 the British admiralty, Ericsson
was c,snr,lled 70 Tome 10 America 10 SECURE
Just lecognition, Ills imsentisn, the Moni-
tcr, which enabled tho United States 20 place
itself on naval footing ut an important
crisis In tho war, was oifar.dto Napoleon Ill.
Ia 1854
| It h inoarcst.ng 70 think Of this great man
who hnilt an engine which riealed that 81
Stephenson City. tour years ago--worEing to
day ~ invmsioas which promise u rovoatioa.
lxe naval warfare. the man who nearly
seventy years aSo draw important plans for
4 canal and sixty eight years ago made the
drawing AZ the famous Sunderland irol,
bridge, now devotins twelve hours day
every day In tha year Ia his professional
!, work Tho monument erected in Sweden II,
honor al John Ericsson and his brother Nils,
the great railway engineer, declares tina,
'.their way through work toknowledge and
lasting fame il open fur every Swedish
I youth" John Eriessons way II opan only
| tor theyonth Of towering gcs,s-,s Sach ~ thu
world rarely owns Butt bis life il still al
example. He has recognized that work !.
| the end Of tho best existence lie doss no,
overwork, I've abuses neither his mind nor hi,
body, but he uss 10th systematically aud
s4lend.dly.