THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CAPTAIN ERICSSON.

Author: Nordheim Wooldridge, Connie. Illustrated by Andrew Glass
Country: USA
Language: English
Year Published: 2005
No. of pages: 31
Illustrations: 18 Color Illustrations. 0 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound with Jacket
Size: 11”x 9”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 823416267
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 6302

Price: $16.95

This illustrated biography of the inventor and captain of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor depicts Swedish immigrant John Ericsson as a visionary inventor. The only thing keeping him from huge successes with a fire engine, a fast railway engine, and a screw propeller, the book tells us, was the shortsightedness of the men who couldn't see the value of them. Years before the Civil War, Ericsson had invented an iron-covered ship with a gun turret, but no one was interested-until another ironclad builder saw his design and recommended it over his own to a navy committee. For readers 6 to 10, with watercolor cartoons.