The Battle of the Ironclads, Part 3: Inventing the Monitor

Tags: U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

01/16/2019 Chris Calton

Season 3, Episode 40

The Union’s response to the Confederate ironclad was an iron warship of its own. Unlike the Merrimack, the USS Monitor was a tremendous technological innovation, nearly single-handedly designed by a Swedish engineer named John Ericsson. This episode details his incredible life and the many failures that would culminate in the successful Monitor that would make him famous.

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