John Ericsson, Swedish-born American engineer and inventor Finish:Rolled St Bernard

St Bernard

delivering his song in Act IV

Fantastical airship with a rudder and a complicated system of rope-activated wings

View of Temple Bar from the Strand

From 'The Illustrated London News'

John Ericsson, Swedish-born American engineer and inventor Finish:Rolled St BernardJohn 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.