John Ericsson, Swedish-born American engineer and inventor Product:Fine art poster 26th June 1979

26th June 1979

a type of gunpowder

view across the Thames with barges and ships on the water

or octagon room (right)

'George Washington Trying to Tell a Lie'

John Ericsson, Swedish-born American engineer and inventor Product:Fine art poster 26th June 1979John Ericsson, Swedish born American engineer and inventor, (c1880). On moving to the USA in 1839, Ericsson designed many warships including the 'Monitor' (1861), the first warship with an armoured turret, and 'The Destroyer' (1878), which could launch submarine torpedoes. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.