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Collection Reference Number GLC02106
From Archive Folder Unassociated Civil War Documents 1861 
Title John Ericsson to Munn & Company about an article on his invention, the ironclad ship
Date 12 November 1861
Author Ericsson, John (1803-1889)  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Written by Ericsson, the Swedish immigrant inventor responsible for building the first Union ironclad ship, to the Munn & Company as proprietors of the magazine "Scientific American." Writes that he is returning their article "on the subject of my battery, with some few typographical errors corrected." Pleased that they are putting the matter before their readers entirely on its own merits. File also has 2 pages torn from a bound volume of "Harper's Weekly." One is dated from January 1862 and the other from 29 March 1862 and both have articles on Ericsson. The January 1862 article has a series of images of the USS "Monitor."
Subjects Science and Technology  Military History  Navy  Maritime  Ironclad  Immigration and Migration  Journalism  Union Forces  Civil War  
People Ericsson, John (1803-1889)  
Theme The American Civil War; Science, Technology, Invention; Arts & Literature; Naval & Maritime
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945