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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: February 16, 2015
Caption: John Ericsson
1803–1889
Additional Description: This 1912 painting by Arvid Frederick Nyholm (after Mathew Brady) hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C.

“Before he came to the United States in 1839, the Swedish-born engineer and inventor John Ericsson revolutionized navigation with his development of the screw propeller, He achieved fame during the Civil War when he designed the ironclad warship Monitor, the federal response to the threat of the Confederate ironclad Virginia (the refitted USS Merrimac) , Ericsson, posing with a model of his ‘tin can on a raft,’ always worked alone and had previously perfected engines for many purposes, including fire engines and a steam locomotive. He later developed the forerunner of the modern naval destroyer. ” — National Portrait Gallery
Submitted: March 21, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p303383
File Size: 1.986 Megabytes

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