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USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned by the Navy. [a] Monitor played a central role in the Battle of Hampton Roads on 9 March under the command of Lieutenant John L. Worden, where she fought the casemate ironclad CSS Virginia (built on the hull of the scuttled steam ...
The DuSable Bridge (formerly the Michigan Avenue Bridge) is a bascule bridge that carries Michigan Avenue across the main stem of the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States. The bridge was proposed in the early 20th century as part of a plan to link Grant Park (downtown) and Lincoln Park (uptown) with a grand boulevard.
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is the site of the wreck of the USS Monitor, one of the most famous shipwrecks in U.S. history.It was designated as the country's first national marine sanctuary on February 5, 1975, [2] and is one of only two of the seventeen [3] national marine sanctuaries created to protect a cultural resource rather than a natural resource.
The Continental Iron Works was an American shipbuilding and engineering company founded in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in 1861 by Thomas F. Rowland.It is best known for building a number of monitor warships for the United States Navy during the American Civil War, most notably the first of the type, USS Monitor.
USS Monitor National Historical Site; Monitor in the news at the Wayback Machine (archived 2004-10-17) – Its 'revolutionary' gun turret has been raised from the ocean floor. On-line exhibition of the Monitor; An original 1862 Chicago Tribune Article; website devoted to CSS Virginia at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2006-10-03)
The world's first monitor, USS Monitor, was both designed and built by Ericsson for the Union Navy in the American Civil War; Torpedo technology, especially Destroyer, an advanced torpedo boat; The solar machine, using concave mirrors to gather sun radiation strong enough to run an engine. USS Princeton (1843) Hoop gun construction; the propeller
A monitor is a relatively small warship that is neither fast nor strongly armored but carries disproportionately large guns. They were used by some navies from the 1860s, during the First World War and with limited use in the Second World War. The original monitor was designed in 1861 by John Ericsson, who named it USS Monitor.
The Bataan-Corregidor Memorial Bridge, also known as the State Street Bridge, is a bridge that carries State Street across the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States. [ 1 ] History