John Ericsson, Swedish-born American engineer and inventor Finish:Rolled with foreground detail of the

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

'The Surrender of Calais'

St Bernard

View of Temple Bar from the Strand

Fantastical airship with a rudder and a complicated system of rope-activated wings

John Ericsson, Swedish-born American engineer and inventor Finish:Rolled with foreground detail of theJohn 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.