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Saturday, 24 August 2024

Swedish engineer and inventor John Ericsson or Erikson (1803-1889)

Maritime Museum Hamburg, Germany

USS Monitor. Wikepedia

CSS Virginia. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Ericsson (Långbanshyttan, Sweden 31 July1803 – New York, USA 8 March 1889) was a engineer and inventor active in England and the USA, who designed the first armoured ironclad named USS Monitor well known from the battle of Hampton Roads on 9 March 1862 with the ironclad CSS Viriginia. 

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