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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Alfred Nobel, Lars Magnus Ericsson, Gustaf Dalen, John Ericsson, Hakan Lans, Peter Nordin, Christopher Polhem, Carl Daniel Ekman, Johan Richter, Carl Johan Cronstedt, Ludvig Nobel, Gustaf de Laval, Gideon Sundback, Sven Gustaf Wingqvist, Fredrik Ljungstrom, Osten Makitalo, Carl Richard Nyberg, Willgodt Theophil Odhner, Jonas Lidstromer, Nils Alwall, Arvid Gerhard Damm, Sven Ivar Seldinger, Carl Munters, Samuel Owen, Gustaf Erik Pasch, Uno Lamm, Johan Petter Johansson, Boris Hagelin, Rene Malaise, Nils Ericson, Carl Edvard Johansson, Anders Knutsson Angstrom, Jerker Porath, Abraham Niclas Edelcrantz, Knut Angstrom, Nils Bohlin, Per Georg Scheutz, Rune Elmqvist, Helge Palmcrantz, Frans Wilhelm Lindqvist, Victor Hasselblad, Martin Wiberg, Baltzar von Platen, Maria Christina Bruhn, Axel Welin, Erik Wallenberg, Arne Asplund, Nils Lofgren, Martin von Wahrendorff, Oscar Kjellberg, Sven Aderman, Hans von Kantzow, Harry Roberts, Jonas Offrell, Waldemar Jungner. Excerpt: John Ericsson (July 31, 1803 - March 8, 1889) was a Swedish-American inventor and mechanical engineer, as was his brother Nils Ericson. He was born at Langbanshyttan in Varmland, Sweden, but primarily came to be active in England and the United States. He is remembered best for designing the steam locomotive Novelty (in partnership with engineer John Braithwaite) and the ironclad USS Monitor. John's and Nils's father Olaf Ericsson who worked as the supervisor for a mine in Varmland had lost money in speculations and had to move his family from Varmland to Forsvik in 1810. There he worked as a 'director of blastings' during the excavation of the Swedish Gota Canal. The extraordinary skills of the two brothers were discovered by Baltzar von Platen, the architect of the Gota Canal. The two brothers were dubbed cadets of mechanics of the...
