The Life of John Ericsson, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Church, William Conant

9781332295418: The Life of John Ericsson, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 133229541X ISBN 13: 9781332295418

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Life of John Ericsson, Vol. 1

IT was the declared Wish of John Ericsson that I should tell the story of his life. The executors of his estate, Messrs. George H. Robinson and Cornelius S. Bushnell, have accordingly placed ln my hands all of his letters and papers. His life-long friend, Mr. John O. Sargent, has freely opened to me the letters received from Captain Ericsson during fifty years of intimate intercourse and has given me the benefit of his recol lections of the great engineer. The associates of Cap tain Ericsson in his office work, Mr. Samuel W. Taylor and Mr. Valdemar F. Lassoe, have also rendered me valuable assistance. To all of these gentlemen my thanks are due. While the task of sifting the volu minous correspondence and collecting the necessary facts has not been a light one, it has brought full com pensation in the study of a great intellect and a gen erous heart.

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Excerpt from The Life of John Ericsson, Vol. 1

The story of the development of special faculties under favoring conditions is always interesting, always instructive; and this is the story of John Ericsson. In him Nature and Opportunity combined their forces to produce the great engineer. The good seed falling upon good ground brought forth abundantly.

He was born at the opening of this century of mechanical achievement, on July 31, 1803, and was a native of Vermland, a division of Swedish territory nearly equivalent in size to British Wales or the American State of New Jersey. Vermland is one of the seven "lans" into which Central Sweden is divided, and follows the "lan" of Stockholm in the order of importance. On its easterly boundary lies the mining district of Nordmark, and here, at the time of John's birth, resided his father, Olof Ericsson, Inspector of Mines at Langbanshyttan.

Whether or not we accept the theory that the physical and intellectual vigor to which Greater Britain owes its glory is of Scandinavian origin, it is beyond question that the Norseland has been, for more than two thousand years, the home of one of the most intelligent and energetic of peoples; a sturdy race which has never yielded to a foreign conqueror since Odin, with his Scythians from the Black Sea, colonized the Scandinavian peninsula.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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