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Show New Destroyers Two new destroyers, now being built, when completed will bear the names of two of America's foremost inventors. The first will honor Thomas A. Edison, outstanding out-standing American inventor whose son served as Secretary of the Navy. The other will bear the name of John Ericcson, an American Am-erican engineer of Swedish ancestry ances-try who designed the U. S. S. Monitor Mon-itor during the Civil War and who also contributed some outstanding achievements in the development of the screw propeller. |