The man who made the Monitor : a biography of John Ericsson, naval engineer / Olav Thulesius.

• Miner and canal boy -- Soldier and inventor John -- To England -- Locomotion -- John Bull -- Propulsion -- The New World -- The Princeton disaster -- The age of caloric -- Naval blockade -- The new Merrimack -- Lincoln's raft -- The Monitor -- The right track -- Happy experience -- The Monitor boys -- Tragic end -- Monitor craze -- The Destroyer -- Solar energy -- Centennial exhibition -- Alfred Nobel -- Manhattan -- The man -- Family and friends -- Home again -- Ericsson remembered -- Lost and found.

• "The main focus of this work is Ericsson's design and construction of the ironclad USS Monitor. One of the first viable armored warships, the Monitor revolutionized naval warfare the world over"--Provided by publisher. 

Ämnesord

Design  (sao)

Marine engineers  -- United States -- Biography. (LCSH)

Ingenjörer  -- Förenta staterna -- 1800-talet (sao)

Design  (lcsh)

Genre

Biografier  (saogf)

Personnamn

Ericsson, John, 1803-1889

Ericsson, John, 1803-1889

Institutionsnamn

Monitor (Ironclad) -- Design and construction.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Lz Biografi: särskilda personer

Klassifikation

92Ericsson, John (UDK)

629.12(091)Monitor (UDK)

609.2 (DDC)

Lz Ericsson, John (kssb/8)