John Ericsson, Swedish-born American engineer and inventor Finish:Rolled Commemorating Joan of Arc at

Commemorating Joan of Arc at the Church of St Augustin

From 'The Illustrated London News'

with foreground detail of the crane winding mechanism on a platform behind the instrument

and referring to a suit for dower of Monna Cassandra

St Bernard

John Ericsson, Swedish-born American engineer and inventor Finish:Rolled Commemorating Joan of Arc atJohn 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.