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Caloric Ship Ericsson, burthen 2200 tons, Built for John B Kitching & Associates, A B Lowber, Commander
Print. The Ericsson was built to test Captain John Ericsson’s theory of a ship driven by hot air instead of steam. The idea proved a failure and she was given an ordinary steam engine. The caloric engine was economical in its consumption of fuel, but was very expensive to build and was of a great size (Rogers, S. ‘Freak Ships’, p68-71)
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Object Details
| ID: | PAD6745 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
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| Display location: | Not on display |
| Vessels: | Ericsson (1852 ) |
| Date made: | 1852 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |