Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1993).
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John Ericsson
John Ericsson was a Swedish-American engineer and inventor. He was active in England and the United States.
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science · Swedish-American engineer (1803–1889) · engineer · military personnel · inventor · mechanical engineer · railway engineer · also John Ericsson, Ericsson
Born 31 July 1803 · Died 8 March 1889 · Q435290
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1993· 1 entry
1926· 1 entry
Coincided with the unveiling of the Ericsson Memorial in West Potomac Park, Washington, DC directly south of the Lincoln Memorial
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1890· 1 entry
The fleet departed with a twenty-one gun salute and the Swedish flag hoisted on every ship of the squadron
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1889· 3 entries
Died 1889-03-08.
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The anniversary of the Battle of Hampton Roads, in which his Monitor famously played a central role
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Ericsson could not be consoled
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1883· 1 entry
John Ericsson built a solar air engine of 1 HP
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1862· 2 entries
Awarded Rumford Prize (1862).
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At the Hampton Roads harbor of southeastern Virginia
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1861· 1 entry
The Confederacy began constructing an ironclad ram upon the burnt hull hulk of the USS Merrimack which had been partially burned and then scuttled / sunk by evacuating Federal troops before it was captured by militia for
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1854· 1 entry
Ericsson presented Emperor Napoleon III of France with drawings of iron-clad armored battleships with a dome-shaped gun tower, and even though the French emperor praised this particular plan, Ericsson did nothing to brin
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1852· 2 entries
The ship was launched and in November the engine was turned over at the dock under its own power
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Honorary Doctorate at Lund University in 1868
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1851· 1 entry
Designed the Caloric ship Ericsson
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1843· 1 entry
Won a speed trial against the huge passenger liner, paddle steamer SS Great Western, until then considered the fastest steamer afloat
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1830· 2 entries
(where it worked for five hours when the other engines were frozen up),
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Ericsson patented his second engine, that can work either with steam, air or water
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1829· 1 entry
And English engineer John Braithwaite (1797–1870) built Novelty for the Rainhill Trials arranged by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
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1822· 1 entry
John passed a surveyor's examination in the Royal capital city of Stockholm
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1816· 1 entry
By the Reverend Robert Stirling (1790-1878), whose technical priority of invention provides the usual term 'Stirling Engine' for the device
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1803· 1 entry
Born 1803-07-31.
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