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131 - John Ericsson and The Monitor

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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We're Fucking Using Our Own Engines

Inventor John Defterios spent time in a debtors prison after his inventions were not commercially successful. He went back to inventing, but the Royal Navy was not down with it. "Nobody wants to do anything fucking different," he says of English culture. 'We invented the thing that we like and they've responded tremendously'

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