20th February 2019
An engaging Design and Technology lesson for KS2 and KS3. Students design a Lanchester car for 2040 thinking about using different materials and energy sources as well as how industry designs products for consumers.
Lanchester Car Design Challenge sheet
Lanchester Car Design Challenge – Lesson Plan
Lanchester Interactive Archive- Lanchester Car Design Challenge Powerpoint
Frederick Lanchester’s legacy is worldwide. Learn more about our archive, how the Indian Maharajas favoured the Lanchester cars over Rolls Royce & how the Peaky Blinders series took inspiration from the influential members of the Lanchester family. Coventry University’s Lanchester […]
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Today we celebrate the 153rd birthday of the engineer, scientist, inventor, author, poet and possibly the first ‘ingeniator’ – Fred Lanchester. On October 23rd 1868, in Lewisham Octavia and Henry welcomed Fred Lanchester into the world and alongside his brothers […]
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NASA’s Perseverance rover, having survived its own hair-raising landing on Mars, has released a unique machine that is set to become the first vehicle to undertake powered flight on another planet. The Ingenuity helicopter didn’t have far to travel (about […]
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