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News
2008
John Ericsson and Solar Energy
John Ericsson, Birthday
Celebration, Battery Park, New York, July 31, 2008
Presentation: "John Ericsson's Birthday Celebration,
July 31 with song by Jussi Björling"
Visitors from Hälsingland, Sweden Celebrate a John
Ericsson Tour around Manhattan, June 24, 2008
Invitation to Visit American Swedish Historical Museum,
Philadelphia, PA Saturday, April 19, 2008
Model Steam Engine, Novelty from the Rainhill Trials
1829, Crafted by John Ericson, Leeds, UK
Model Engines, Crafted by Rich Carlstedt
JESNY Annual Report, 2007 of the President: February 1,
2008
2007
John Ericsson
Literature Roundtable, New York, November 30, 2007
Oswego/Erie Canal Solar Cruise 2007
The National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio
John Ericsson, Birthday
Celebration, Battery Park, New York, July 31, 2007
John Ericsson Creativity Award, John Ericsson Junior High School, Brooklyn, New
York, 2007
John Ericsson Memorial Celebration, Washington D.C.
June 2, 2007, including Visit to House of Sweden
More News
You are invited to become a Member
of the John Ericsson Society, New York
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John Ericsson,
A. Molthé
1903
The John Ericsson Society, New York offers members the
privilege of participating in the use of 21st
Century technology and methods to gather and provide
access to evidence of the achievements of Captain John
Ericsson, thus preserving for future generations an
accurate record of his historic contributions and
promoting the advancement of engineering science.
John Ericsson Monument, Nybroviken, Stockholm, Sweden
John Ericsson Monument,
Gothenburg, Sweden
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The Society Celebrates the
following annual Memorial Events
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March 9th,
Monitor Day - Annual Dinner.
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July 31st, John Eriksson's Birthday
- Celebration
at the John Ericsson Statue in Battery Park, New
York..
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November 23rd,
John Eriksson's arrival in the US - Celebration.
John Ericsson Monument, Battery Park, New York, USA
John Ericsson Memorial, Washington D.C., USA
On a fine spring Saturday,
May 29, 1926, President Calvin Coolidge and Crown Prince
Gustaf Adolf of Sweden dedicated the
memorial in the presence of about 5,000 persons.
Said the Crown Prince when
the memorial was unveiled, "He was the greatest man of Swedish blood who ever came
to the United States."
The
objectives of the Society are
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to
perpetuate and honor the memory of Captain John
Ericsson, advance the profession of engineering and
work for cooperation between the members of his
profession in all countries with special recognition
of those branches of engineering wherein Captain
John Ericsson's principal achievements were
attained.
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to
promote and encourage historic research concerning
the life and works of Captain John Ericsson.
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to
gather and disseminate information concerning the
history and life of Captain John Ericsson.
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to
gather and preserve books, manuscripts, papers and
relics relating to the history, life and works of
Captain John Ericsson.
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to
mark places of historic interest with suitable
monuments and markers where such places are
connected the the life of Captain John Ericsson.
The Society was founded in
1907 and incorporated under the laws of State of New
York in 1934.
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