A website, archive and interactive space celebrating one of Britain's most innovative engineers and inventors, Frederick Lanchester
A fun history lessons for KS2 and KS3. Students work on developing critical thinking, chronological ordering and historical reasoning skills all based around Fred’s remarkable life. All you need is a toilet roll and a few other items.
Toilet Roll Timeline – Lesson Plan
Lanchester Interactive Archive – Toilet Roll Timeline PowerPoint (wecompress.com)
Slides for timeline (Print 2 per page and laminate if re-using)
An engaging lesson for KS3 and KS4 English based upon the power of advertising….
A STEM based lesson for KS2 and KS3 students exploring Fred Lanchester’s glider experiments from…
An engaging Design and Technology lesson for KS2 and KS3. Students design a Lanchester car…
A local history focused history lesson for KS2 and KS3 students exploring Coventry’s experience during…
In 1907 Fred published ‘Aerodynamics‘, the first part of his two volume publication called ‘Aerial…
Lanchester Motor Company was bought out by Birmingham Small Arms Ltd and managed by another…
In the same year (1895) that he developed the first all-British motor car and…
In December 1902 Fred patented an invention that offered ‘…an improved form of brake mechanism…