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Thank You Very Much, Captain Ericsson
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Author
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Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge. Andrew Glass, illus.
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Publisher
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Holiday House
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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11.1
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8.7
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0.4
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ISBN
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9780823416264
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Pages/Publication Date
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32/2004
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Daedalus Item Code
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83904
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List Price:
$16.95
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$3.98
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$13.97
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Description
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This illustrated biography of the inventor and captain of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor depicts Swedish immigrant John Ericsson as a visionary inventor. The only thing keeping him from huge successes with a fire engine, a fast railway engine, and a screw propeller, the book tells us, was the shortsightedness of the men who couldn't see the value of them. Years before the Civil War, Ericsson had invented an iron-covered ship with a gun turret, but no one was interested—until another ironclad builder saw his design and recommended it over his own to a navy committee. Andrew Glass illustrates the book, for readers 6 to 10, with watercolor cartoons.
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