John Ericsson, Swedish-born American engineer and inventor Product:Fine art poster view across the Thames with

view across the Thames with barges and ships on the water

Letter from Edinburgh by Knox to Throgmorton

a type of gunpowder

He is shown against a panelled interior

John Ericsson, Swedish-born American engineer and inventor Product:Fine art poster view across the Thames withJohn 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.