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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 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Ericsson has received more than 373,985 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. John Ericsson is the 139th most popular inventor (down from 128th in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 205th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swedish Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, John Ericsson ranks 139 out of 354Before him are Louis Le Prince, Paul Otlet, Robert Moog, Gunther von Hagens, Johann Jacob Schweppe, and Josiah Warren. After him are Jang Yeong-sil, Georg Luger, Heinrich Göbel, Alfred Vail, Viktor Schauberger, and Nikolai Kardashev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, John Ericsson ranks 21Before him are Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony, Ferenc Deák, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, and Princess Alexandrine of Prussia. After him are Joseph Paxton, Henry Darcy, John Sutter, Friedrich von Amerling, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, and Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff. Among people deceased in 1889, John Ericsson ranks 24Before him are Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Robert Browning, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, Ion Creangă, and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. After him are Ignacy Domeyko, Gaston Planté, Princess Eugénie of Sweden, Viktor Bunyakovsky, Jules Dupré, and Maria Mitchell.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, John Ericsson ranks 227 out of 1,612Before him are Ingemar Johansson (1932), Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741), Carl Michael Bellman (1740), Princess Margaretha of Sweden (1899), Carl Johan Bernadotte (1916), and Håkan Nesser (1950). After him are Henrik Larsson (1971), Gillis Grafström (1893), Harry Nyquist (1889), Torbern Bergman (1735), Jan Guillou (1944), and Joey Tempest (1963).

Among INVENTORS In Sweden

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