The picture above is the front page of the menu and program from a dinner held in 1941, when “…engineers and patriots are needed!” I wrote about John Ericsson five years ago, and I still walk by his statue in Battery Park almost every day.
I feel like the menu picture – which shows the USS Ericsson, a modern ship, rather than the USS Monitor, takes te word “launch” a bit too literally.
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