Chelston Flotation Tank Traditional Geocache
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Memorial to William Froude FRS LLD
The years 1871-1872 saw the turning point in the history of ship model research. For it was at Torquay that a Victorian civil engineer called William Froude began a chain of events in his native Devon which would put Britain in the forefront of technological innovation of the time and lead in due course to the development of the world's leading ship model research establishment in a quiet backwater of Portsmouth Harbour. Sometime during the 1860s he had acquired some ground at Torquay and built himself a house known as Chelston Cross. Froude was given an Admiralty grant of £2000 to cover the cost of building a model testing tank. The world's first model experiment using the Froude techniques was with a miniature version of HMS Greyhound in 1871. Her sea trials took place a year later in the Solent. By 1885 the Torquay tank had exhausted its capacity and the lease had also run out on the land occupied by the tank. There is a commemorative plaque to William Froude inside the lobby of Torquay Town Hall Plenty of parking nearby. Text courtesy of this link
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