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Geoffrey Nathaniel Joseph Pyke (9 November 1893 – 21 February 1948) was an English journalist, educationalist, and inventor. Pyke came to public attention when he escaped from internment in Germany during World War I .
Geoffrey Nathaniel Pyke (Londra, 9 novembre 1893 – Londra, 21 febbraio 1948) è stato un inventore e educatore britannico, direttore dei programmi del Combined Operation sotto la direzione di Lord Mountbatten; progettò sia una slitta automobile sia una portaerei totalmente in ghiaccio.
7 mag 2015 · Geoffrey Pyke’s human history began with a miserable childhood and ended 54 years later when he took his own life in a boarding house outside central London. But in between, his audacious...
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1 gen 2021 · Geoffrey Pike, l’inventore della nave di ghiaccio. L’idea per cui è però famoso gli viene nel 1942. Il Nord Atlantico era (ed è) noto per la presenza di iceberg vaganti, che si staccano dalla banchina del Polo Nord e possono viaggiare anche molto a Sud prima di sciogliersi.
26 ago 2014 · The British inventor Geoffrey Pyke lived the kind of life normally chronicled in adventure novels. He escaped from a World War I German internment camp, built a fortune on the stock exchange...
Geoffrey Pyke lived most of his life as if it was an experiment. The idea he wanted to test was simple enough: that he could solve any problem, and what’s more, so could anyone else. There followed one of the most extraordinary lives of the 20th century.