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Photo # NH 42207:  Montage of views related to USS Monitor and John Ericsson, 1862

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John Ericsson (1803-1889) -- Inventions


This page features views related to some of John Ericsson's inventions, and provides links to others.

For other pictures related to ships designed by John Ericsson, see:

  • USS Princeton (1843-1849); and
  • USS Monitor (1862-1862).

    For other images of, and related to, John Ericsson, see:

  • John Ericsson (1803-1899).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the "Online Library's" digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 80000

    12-inch Wrought Iron Gun

    "Planned by J. Ericsson. Tested at Sandy Hook, 1842&quot.

    Photograph of a plan on file at the Naval Ordnance Plant, Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1962.
    This gun looks very much like John Ericsson's "Oregon" gun, after reinforcement. The "Oregon" was tested at Sandy Hook following completion of that work in 1842. It is now located at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 495 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 42207

    "The First Naval Conflict Between Iron Clad Vessels."

    "In Hampton Roads, March 9th 1862."

    Lithograph by Endicott & Company, New York, 1862, after a drawing by C. Parsons, depicting the battle between USS Monitor and CSS Virginia (ex-USS Merrimack). Other elements shown in the central image include Sewalls Point, CSS Jamestown, CSS Yorktown and "Rebel Tugs in the left distance; and USS Cumberland (sunken), USS Congress (burning, USS Minnesota and Newport News in the right distance.
    Shown around the central image are a portrait of John Ericsson, a view of Ericsson's caloric engine, a "sectional view" of CSS Virginia's casemate, and seven scenes on board USS Monitor. Engraved versions of the latter are reproduced as (counter-clockwise from upper left) Photo #s: NH 58850; NH 58854; NH 58856; NH 58855; NH 58851; NH 58857; NH 58858.

    Donation of F.L. Stickney, 1933. Another copy, without the stain in the lower right, was in the collection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 510 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45978

    USS Monitor (1862)
    and
    CSS Virginia (1862)

    Montage drawing featuring plans of the two ships, portraits of men responsible for building and operating them, and scenes of their histories. It is inscribed: "Dedicated to the Memory of Thomas Fitch Rowland, Builder of the Original Monitor.". Drawn by Charles H. Corbett, circa 1907 or later.
    See Photo # NH 45978 (extended caption) for more extensive information.

    Courtesy of Charles H. Corbett.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 278KB; 1200 x 825 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 50954

    USS Monitor (1862)


    General plan published in 1862, showing the ship's inboard profile, plan view below the upper deck and hull cross sections through the engine and boiler spaces.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 153KB; 1200 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45964

    USS Monitor (1862)


    First page of the contract to construct the ship's hull, made between Thomas Fitch Rowland, on behalf of the Continental Iron Works, and John Ericsson and his associates, 25 October 1861.

    The original was in the Office of Naval Records & Library Collection at the National Archives, circa the early 1960s.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 131KB; 510 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45965

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Second page of the contract to construct the ship's hull, made between Thomas Fitch Rowland, on behalf of the Continental Iron Works, and John Ericsson and his associates, 25 October 1861.

    The original was in the Office of Naval Records & Library Collection at the National Archives, circa the early 1960s.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 115KB; 510 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 45966

    USS Monitor (1862)


    Third (and last) page of the contract to construct the ship's hull, made between Thomas Fitch Rowland, on behalf of the Continental Iron Works, and John Ericsson and his associates, 25 October 1861.

    The original was in the Office of Naval Records & Library Collection at the National Archives, circa the early 1960s.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 111KB; 600 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 59387

    "The Ericsson Devil and 'Weehawken'"


    Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", January-June 1863, depicting USS Weehawken pushing the mine-clearing raft designed by John Ericsson for use in Charleston harbor, South Carolina.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 62KB; 740 x 280 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 82828

    John Ericsson's Controllable Torpedo, 1873-1878


    Photographed at the Newport Torpedo Station, Rhode Island, circa the 1890s. Developed during the 1870s and 1880s when the Torpedo Station was experimenting primarily with this type.
    The Ericsson torpedo was slow, noisy and impractical, but was the first torpedo to use two counter-rotating propellers mounted on a single shaft.

    Copied from an original photograph held by the Naval Underwater Systems Center, Newport, R.I.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 111KB; 740 x 510 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 84476

    John Ericsson's "Destroyer"


    Longitudinal section of the ship's bow, showing the underwater gun and its projectile "torpedo", circa 1881.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 56KB; 740 x 310 pixels

     

    For other pictures related to ships designed by John Ericsson, see:

  • USS Princeton (1843-1849); and
  • USS Monitor (1862-1862).

    For other images of, and related to, John Ericsson, see:

  • John Ericsson (1803-1899).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the "Online Library's" digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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