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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“I shall not bring an automobile with me. These inventions infest France almost as much as Bloomer cycling costumes, but they make a horrid racket, and are particularly objectionable. So are the Bloomers. Nothing more abominable has ever been invented. Perhaps the automobile tricycles may succeed better, but I abjure all these works of the devil.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)