England-2011-greenwich

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

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich

Local Attractions

• Market (chartered in 1700)
• Cutty Sark
• Palace of Placentia/Royal Naval College
• National Maritime Museum
• Gipsy Moth IV
• Greenwich foot tunnel