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Revision as of 02:41, 25 January 2011

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