Editing John Ericsson (section)

==Friendship with Cornelius H. DeLamater==
When Ericsson arrived from [[England]] and settled in New York City, he was persuaded by Samuel Risley of [[Greenwich Village]] to give his work to the Phoenix Foundry. There he met  industrialist and iron / steel foundry owner  [[Cornelius H. DeLamater]] (1821–1889), and soon a mutual attachment developed between the two. Rarely thereafter did Ericsson or DeLamater enter upon a business venture without first consulting the other."<ref name="Leg Docs">{{cite book | title = Legislative Document by New York State Legislature, vol 37, no. 117-118 | publisher = J.B. Lyon Co | year = 1920 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/legislativedocu12legigoog/page/n254 202]–213 | url = https://archive.org/details/legislativedocu12legigoog}}</ref> Personally, their friendship never faltered, though strained by the pressures of business and Ericsson's quick temper, DeLamater called Ericsson "John" and Ericsson called DeLamater by his middle nickname "Harry", intimacies almost unknown in Ericsson's other relationships.<ref name="Nelson">{{cite book | last = Nelson | first = James L. | title = Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads | publisher = Harper Collins | year = 2005 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=d8XD-j--EVsC&q=Delamater+Iron+works+monitor&pg=PA149| isbn = 978-0-06-052404-3}}</ref> In time, the DeLamater Iron Works, situated facing the [[Hudson River]] on the waterfront / west end of West 13th Street in [[Lower Manhattan]]'s westside, became known as the Asylum where Capt Ericsson had free rein to experiment and attempt new feats. 

The ''Iron Witch'' was next constructed, the first iron steamboat.<ref name="Maritme Book">{{cite book | title = Old Steamboat Days on the Hudson River | publisher = The Grafton Press | year = 1907 | chapter = CHAPTER 6 Steamboat Evolution | url = http://www.hrmm.org/diglib/oldsteam/chapter6.html | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100826072908/http://www.hrmm.org/diglib/oldsteam/chapter6.html | archive-date = August 26, 2010 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> The first hot-air invention of Capt Ericsson was first introduced in the ship ''Ericsson'',<ref name="haeericsson1852">{{cite web|url=http://hotairengines.org/open-cycle-engine/ericsson-1851/story-of-ericsson-caloric-ship |title=Ericsson's Caloric Engine of 1852 |work=hotairengines.org |access-date=6 August 2020}}</ref> built entirely by DeLamater. The DeLamater Iron Works also launched the first submarine boat, first self-propelled torpedo, and first torpedo boat.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/12/11/109828409.pdf |title=Honors for Capt Ericsson|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 11, 1921 }}</ref> When DeLamater died on February 2, 1889, Ericsson could not be consoled. Ericsson's own death only one month later in March 1889, was not surprising to his close friends and acquaintances."<ref name="Carr">{{cite book | last = Carr | first = Edward A. T. |author2=Michael W. Carr |author3=Kari Ann Carr | title = Faded Laurels, The History of Eaton's Neck and Asharoken | publisher = Heart of the Lakes Publishing | year = 1994 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=OP4MAQAACAAJ&q=faded+laurels | isbn = 978-1-55787-119-0}}</ref>