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

First published at 18:20 UTC on January 16th, 2019.
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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…

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