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Language: en
Pages: 140
Pages: 140
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Silver Burdett Press
Traces the life of the Swedish-American engineer and inventor who introduced the successful use of screw propellers on commercial and naval vessles, and designe
Language: en
Pages: 126
Pages: 126
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher:
Traces the life of the Swedish-American engineer and inventor who introduced the successful use of screw propellers on commercial and naval vessles, and designe
Language: en
Pages: 336
Pages: 336
Type: BOOK - Published: 1960 - Publisher: New York : Holt
Biography of John Ericsson, Swedish inventor and designer of U.S. "Ironclad Monitor", which influenced the course of the Civil War.
Language: en
Pages: 264
Pages: 264
Type: BOOK - Published: 1960 - Publisher:
A biography of the ... Swedish inventor who designed the 'Monitor,' the little ironclad battleship that saved the Union during the Civil War.
Language: en
Pages: 265
Pages: 265
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-01-18 - Publisher: McFarland
Mention Civil War naval confrontations and the Monitor instantly springs to mind. The first of the ironclads, the Monitor not only took part in a major battle,