Inventions
- The surface condenser
- The hot air engine
- The world's first monitor, USS Monitor, was both designed and built by Ericsson for the Union Navy in the American Civil War
- Torpedo technology, especially Destroyer, an advanced torpedo boat
- The solar machine, using concave mirrors to gather sun radiation strong enough to run an engine.
- USS Princeton (1843)
- Hoop gun construction
- the Propeller
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