Geoffrey Pyke was an English journalist, educationalist, and inventor who proposed the material pykrete for the construction of the ship Habakkuk. He was a war correspondent who escaped from internment in Germany during World War I and became a lecturer and writer.
Geoffrey Nathaniel Joseph Pyke ( 9 de noviembre de 1893 - 21 de febrero de 1948) 1 fue un periodista, educador y posteriormente inventor inglés. Salió a la luz pública cuando se escapó del internamiento en el que estaba retenido tras su detención durante la Primera Guerra Mundial en Alemania, donde había viajado con un pasaporte falso. 2
6 de jul. de 2017 · La idea original del proyecto la tuvo, meses antes, un científico del Centro de Operaciones Combinadas del ejército británico llamado Geoffrey Pyke. El inventor convenció a Lord Mountbatten de...
Learn about the life and achievements of Geoffrey Pyke, a British inventor who came up with innovative schemes to stop the Second World War, such as snow-borne guerrillas, oil pipelines under the ocean and giant aircraft carriers. Find out how he became a fugitive and a spy, and why he committed suicide in 1948.
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29 de ago. de 2014 · Pykrete was named after its inventor, Geoffrey Pyke, an amateur eccentric whom Mountbatten had recently appointed as his director of programmes. This was the crowning moment in an odd career....