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Show THE MAN VHO SAW TOMORROW e. JOHN ERH SSON John Erieson 's best known claim to a place among the men who have seen tomorrow pas his Invention of the "Monitor" which rendered obsolete, in one demonstration against the "Merrl-'niac" "Merrl-'niac" during ih Civil war, all the: navies of th" world. But this dramatic climax of his career ca-reer as an Inventor followed a series of accomplishments which has! stamped him as a man who could see1 jthe future of steam navigation on 'both land and sea. I In 1S29 he built a locomotive. for Ithe Liverpool and Manchester railroad jln a competition for the best resigns The prize was won by Stephenson's ; "Itocket." but only seven years later I jln 18.16 he opened thc future to sue-cessful sue-cessful ocean going steamships by in-1 .venting a screw propellor This made ,11 possible to build ships which were i not topheavy in stormy weather, as ; the engines could be placed beneath Ithe water line The American civil war gave him I his greatest opportunity for he had already seen so far ahead of his times! that lie was constructing iron ships. Up to that ltme they had all been of wood j As soon as he heard that the United States wanted lion ships he hurried; to America and the "Monitor" was! built. The building of modern navlesi dates from that time In 1S02. Ericsson had truly seen tomorrow. ! |