John Ericsson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Ericsson

United States engineer

Date of Birth: 31-Jul-1803

Place of Birth: Färnebo församling, Sweden

Date of Death: 08-Mar-1889

Profession: military personnel, engineer, inventor, mechanical engineer

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Leo

John Ericsson (born Johan) (July 31, 1803 – March 8, 1889) was a Swedish-American inventor.
He was active in England and the United States. Ericsson collaborated on the design of the railroad steam locomotive Novelty, which competed in the Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which were won by inventor George Stephenson's (1781-1848), Rocket.
In North America, he designed the United States Navy's first screw-propelled steam-frigate USS Princeton, in partnership with Captain (later Commodore) Robert F.
Stockton (1795-1866), who unjustly blamed him for a fatal accident.
A new partnership with Cornelius H.
DeLamater (1821-1889), of the DeLamater Iron Works in New York City resulted in the first armoured ironclad warship equipped with a rotating gun turret, USS Monitor, which dramatically saved the U.S.
(Union Navy) naval blockading squadron from destruction by an ironclad Confederate States naval vessel, CSS Virginia, at the famous Battle of Hampton Roads at the southern mouth of Chesapeake Bay (with the James River) in March 1862, during the American Civil War.