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John Ericsson

1803 - 1889

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John Ericsson (born Johan Ericsson; July 31, 1803 – March 8, 1889) was a Swedish-American engineer and inventor. He was active in England and the United States. Ericsson collaborated on the design of the railroad steam locomotive Novelty, which competed in the Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which were won by inventor George Stephenson's (1781–1848), Rocket. Later in North America, he designed the United States Navy's first screw-propelled steam-frigate USS Princeton, in partnership with Captain (later Commodore) Robert F. Stockton (1795–1866) of the U.S. Navy, who unjustly blamed him for a fatal accident on the new vessel in 1844. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Ericsson is the 171st most popular inventor (down from 139th in 2019), the 293rd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 241st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, John Ericsson ranks 171 out of 426. Before him are Alfred Vail, Guillaume Amontons, Robert Watson-Watt, Robert Metcalfe, Charles Algernon Parsons, and Jang Yeong-sil. After him are Sandford Fleming, Heinrich Göbel, Charles Cros, Uziel Gal, Gaston Glock, and Henrich Focke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, John Ericsson ranks 27. Before him are Ferenc Deák, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, C. L. Gloger, Robert Stephenson, Friedrich von Amerling, and Muhammad IV of Morocco. After him are Karl Gützlaff, Peter Chanel, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, Henry Darcy, John Sutter, and Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps. Among people deceased in 1889, John Ericsson ranks 36. Before him are Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Ignacy Domeyko, Émile Augier, Viktor Bunyakovsky, and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel. After him are Elvira Madigan, Franciscus Donders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Alfred Józef Potocki, and Bernhard Förster.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, John Ericsson ranks 293 out of 1,879. Before him are Olof Björnsson (950), Magdalena Andersson (1967), Harry Bild (1936), Björn Waldegård (1943), Johannes Magnus (1488), and Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland (1979). After him are Joey Tempest (1963), Per Brahe the Younger (1602), Erik Acharius (1757), Johann Patkul (1660), Prince Oscar Bernadotte (1859), and Elizabeth Stride (1843).

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Among INVENTORS In Sweden

Among inventors born in Sweden, John Ericsson ranks 2. Before him are Gideon Sundback (1880). After him are Ernst Alexanderson (1878), Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846), Nils Bohlin (1920), Victor Hasselblad (1906), Sven Gustaf Wingqvist (1876), and Simone Giertz (1990).

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