Tuesday 21st. March 2017 at Parkstone Yacht Club.
Jeremy Batch - Extreme Voyagers, Part 1
A welcome return by the CA’s own popular and highly entertaining speaker, with another of his always meticulously researched and humorously presented talks.
“Was the propeller invented in 1836 by an Englishman, in 1776 by an American, in 1490 by an Italian or in 240 BC by a Greek? How did a duck, a cockerel and a sheep come to be test pilots? When was Stratford’s rocket factory set-up? Plus: the story of the steam engine, the first submarine (1776), the first manned flight (1783), some “great ships” (from Brunel and others), a flying machine that was 800ft long, and a chance to revise some of your school physics.”