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Greenwich Excursion, Saturday 29 January 2011
Travel
- TBD.
Preparation
- TBD.
Plan
- TBD.
Bloggers
We will need two volunteers from the studio audience to take pictures and write-up/post a blog entry about this excursion. Get in touch if you are interested.
Science, Technology and Society
There are many connections to the course in Greenwich:
- Royal Observatory
- John Harrison's marine chronometers
- Longitude 0, aka Greenwich Meridian
First Lab
- TBD.
Background Material
Local Attractions
- Market (chartered in 1700)
- Cutty Sark
- Palace of Placentia/Royal Naval College
- National Maritime Museum
- Gipsy Moth IV
- Greenwich foot tunnel