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                                  ERICSSON
                                      
             Posted by Ruth Price Waldbauer on Fri, 12 Feb 1999
                                      
                             Surname: ERICSSON
                                      
   p.579
   ERICSSON, CAPT. JOHN, born in Sweden, January 31, 1803. Entered
   Swedish army, and promoted to captaincy, 1827. Invented many steam
   appliances, and, in 1836, the screw propeller. Came to United States
   in 1839, and in 1841 designed the screw-propeller "Princeton". In 1861
   he built the iron-clad "Monitor" which, March 9, 1862, defeated the
   Confederate iron-clad "Merrimac". In 1881 he built the "Destroyer".
   Died March 8, 1889.
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