. Morton memorial; a history of the Stevens institute of technology, with biographies of the trustees, faculty, and alumni, and a record of the achievements of the Stevens family of engineers. tant draughtsman at the De Lamater IronWorks, New York, and while there his work attracted the attention of Capt. JohnEricsson, who subsequently engaged him as his chief draughtsman. Mr. MacCord remained with Capt. Ericsson for nine years, from 1859 to1868; during which time he assisted that famous engineer in the construction ofthe Ericsson hot-air engine, of marine steam-engines, of implements of waran
. Morton memorial; a history of the Stevens institute of technology, with biographies of the trustees, faculty, and alumni, and a record of the achievements of the Stevens family of engineers. tant draughtsman at the De Lamater IronWorks, New York, and while there his work attracted the attention of Capt. JohnEricsson, who subsequently engaged him as his chief draughtsman. Mr. MacCord remained with Capt. Ericsson for nine years, from 1859 to1868; during which time he assisted that famous engineer in the construction ofthe Ericsson hot-air engine, of marine steam-engines, of implements of warand of apparatus for Ericssons well-known researches in physics: but above all,Mr. MacCord achieved distinction for his work on the plans of the famous tur-reted ironclad Monitor, the details of which were made in Capt. Ericssonsoffice. It was due, in a large measure, to Mr. MacCords rapid and accurate ex-ecution of the working drawings of this vessel, that she was able to appear inHampton Roads on the 9th of March, 1862, and check the victorious and seeming-ly invincible career of the Merrimac, which had almost destroyed the Unionfleet and was preparing to make a final move on New W. MacCord 220 THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY In 1868 Mr. MacCord was selected as chief draughtsman in the construc-tion of the Stevens Battery, then building at Hoboken, N. J., under the super-vision of Gen. George B. McClellan. In 1870 he became chief draughtsman forthe Department of Docks, New York, of which Gen. McClellan was the chiefengineer. In 1871 Mr. MacCord was called to organize and take charge of the De-partment of Mechanical Drawing in the Stevens Institute of Technology. During the time that he was with Capt. Ericsson, his life was for the mostpart uneventful: but the monotony was sometimes broken by incidents of stir-ring interest. Many of these, naturally, occurred during the construction of thefamous Monitor ; and the most exciting episode of all was that in which
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