John Ericsson, Swedish-born American engineer and inventor Size:S: 40 x 30cm Inscribed in pencil top right

Inscribed in pencil top right 'Photog 253'

'6th Dragoon Guards'

5th October 1978

View of the Quaker's Meeting House on Redcross Street

John Ericsson, Swedish-born American engineer and inventor Size:S: 40 x 30cm Inscribed in pencil top rightJohn 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.