. The uplift [serial] . rorge Wright; Thomas Corps Sergeant Tabb. i-mficance of the Virginia-MonitorCombat ? ;,, this time the great naval•:,., of history had been fought ,,.„i,.ii vessels. The success of :,,;a made wooden vessels worth-- -hips of war. The ironclad-?,?;•,.,.? embodied in the Virginia: - ;,-,Tssfully tested at Hampton. .1, is now employed in all the•? :.- navies of the world, and is- :. in every heavily armored bat-•?-•:!, anil protected cruiser of to-The principle of the revolving• ?>: has also come into Tims this one naval engage-::.-:.:
. The uplift [serial] . rorge Wright; Thomas Corps Sergeant Tabb. i-mficance of the Virginia-MonitorCombat ? ;,, this time the great naval•:,., of history had been fought ,,.„i,.ii vessels. The success of :,,;a made wooden vessels worth-- -hips of war. The ironclad-?,?;•,.,.? embodied in the Virginia: - ;,-,Tssfully tested at Hampton. .1, is now employed in all the•? :.- navies of the world, and is- :. in every heavily armored bat-•?-•:!, anil protected cruiser of to-The principle of the revolving• ?>: has also come into Tims this one naval engage-::.-:.: revolutionized modern naval^?•?artioii, destroyed the effective-:.. - of all wooden ships of war, the maritime nations of thec-:-r:h to begin anew the construct- ion of their Ericsson, the Swedish Inventor,John Ericsson, who planned the-Monitor, which entertained theVirginia in such a lively manner,at Hampton Roads in March, 1862,was born at Langbanshyttan, Swed-. en, in 1S03. He entered the Swedish:•irniv, but left it after several yearsservice, to give his entire time to-his inventions. He is the author ofa number of useful inventions. In1S39 he came to the United States,and designed the warship Princeton,the first steamer that had her engnes-and boiler below the water line,bo as to be out of reach of shot. Hewas en-aged by the Federal govern-ment to plan a sea-fighting machineto withstand any kind of an attackand having the power to executecomplete destruction to other ves-sels; how well he succeeded may beunderstood by the career <*£ theMonitor. He died at New \orkMarch S, 1S89, exactly twenty-sevenvera to the day that him Monitorentered Hampton Roads. A Swedish,war vessel conveyed his body, accord-in- to his wish, to his native burial. A statue has been erectedat Stockholm to his memory. 20 THE UPLIFT M reproduce it. It emphatically estab-lishes the fact that instead of theMonitor defeating the Virginiathe victory is e
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