1st April 2020
Once again, we’re joining in with the #Archive30 challenge on Twitter for April. Each day, a new post on a new topic and with it, an insight into archives across the world.
Our Twitter feed @lanchester_ia is the place to find the latest posts and Coventry University Archives @CovUniArchives (of which we are a part) will also be posting.
Here is a sneak preview of the topics coming up…
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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