John Ericsson, Swedish-born American engineer and inventor Finish:Rolled 'The Surrender of Calais'

'The Surrender of Calais'

Jane Birkin and husband Serge Gainsbourg

Commemorating Joan of Arc at the Church of St Augustin

'Scene From The American Tempest'

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

John Ericsson, Swedish-born American engineer and inventor Finish:Rolled 'The Surrender of Calais'John 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.