
131 - John Ericsson and The Monitor
The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds
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Captain Warden, Half Blackface
John Erickson is regarded as one of the most influential mechanical engineers ever. His body was exhumed and returned to Sweden because he is a national hero. He continued to experiment and invent for the rest of his life, creating a machine able to gather sun radiation strong enough to run the engine. Warden eventually became an admiral.
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