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	Cabinet Magazine Online - The Floating Island
		Pykrete is the namesake of Geoffrey Pyke, who the Times of London once declared "one of the most original if unrecognized figures of the present century." His career began in 1914 when, as a teenager at Cambridge University, he landed a foreign correspondent job by using a false passport to sneak into wartime Germany.
		Pyke financed his own school by brilliantly riding futures markets and controlling a quarter of the world's supply of tin, a ploy which brought him to financial ruin in 1929.
		Pyke's logical conclusion was to build a behemoth: the H.M.S Habbakuk, he called it.
	www.cabinetmagazine.org /issues/7/floatingisland.php (1814 words)

	Magnus Pyke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Magnus Pyke (born in London, England on 29 December 1908; died in London on 19 October 1992) was a British scientist and media figure, who, although apparently quite eccentric, made an effort to explain science to a lay audience.
		Pyke appears on the song, and the video, She Blinded Me With Science by Thomas Dolby, where he shouts "science" and other soundbites.
		Pyke rose to prominence as a young food researcher working for the wartime Minister of Food, Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magnus_Pyke (229 words)

	Boulevards, Banlieues, and...
		In a gesture similar to bomb and fall-out shelters that Kuiper references, Pyke proposed another kind of architecture built in reaction to potential war and disaster: a floating island made of ice.
		Pyke intended to use the island as an airfield that could be built larger than conventional aircraft carriers at that time, enabling it to hold fighting planes like spitfires and possibly even larger bombers.
		What made Pyke’s ice island so unconventional was its strength—he found that by mixing sawdust with water and freezing it you coul create a material (pykrete) that was remarkably strong, thawed at a very low rate, and could be easily repaired.
	www.lot.at /projects/Boulevards,.../disaster.html (570 words)

	Geoffrey Pyke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Geoffrey Nathaniel Pyke (1893–1948) was a British inventor whose generally unorthodox ideas were often very difficult to implement.
		This endeavour, known as Project Habbakuk, was investigated by Combined Operations and had the personal backing of Lord Louis Mountbatten and Sir Winston Churchill, but never reached completion.
		On a winter evening in 1948, Pyke shaved his beard and consumed a bottleful of sleeping pills; his landlady found his corpse the following morning.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geoffrey_Nathaniel_Pyke (169 words)

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		In WWII Geoffrey Pyke invented an interesting material, a composite of 14% by weight sawdust and water frozen to ice.
		It would have carried up to 1000 aircraft, perhaps 20,000 to 50,000 men and allowed projection of massive air /sea power in total control over the local skies and this force could be brought to the enemy homeland.
		Pyke correctly also surmised that floating cities of perhaps a several square miles (as large as many inhabited islands) could be made of the material to roam the high seas, perhaps even to act as new sovereign nations.
	www.nexialinstitute.com /SpaceMtl.htm (722 words)

	first cut books :: mcsweeney's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		"Geoffrey Pyke was one of the 20th century's most brilliant eccentrics - mad genius, financial wizard, impoverished hermit.
		Lost to obscurity for over eighty years, Pyke's extraordinary book is a college student's sharp-tongued travelogue, a sober meditation on imprisonment and escape...
		Suddenly an airport is not merely an airport, it is “the cleanest airport in the world” and the vanguard of Western culture’s quest to subjugate and dominate nature.
	www.firstcutbooks.com /mcswys3.htm (514 words)

	The Weasel Restorer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		Geoffrey Nathanial Pyke, a brilliant but sometimes obnoxious and eccentric scientist was known for his intriguing and sometimes outrageous ideas.
		Pyke felt that the Allies should be masters of the snow in fact, he prepared a paper called just that, " Mastery of the Snows".
		Pyke kept pushing the Archimedian screw machine as the best type of drive system and the Americans infuriated him with their insistence on using a tracked vehicle but in the end, a tracked vehicle would be best for climbing rocky hills, durability, and for air-dropping.
	www.qix.net /~lmjbo/weastory.htm (2419 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: ARTS To Ruhleben--And Back (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		and, as Pyke intended, a ripping yarn," in which the author recounts his incarceration, and his eventual escape from Ruhleben, an internment camp for the British, which is considered something of a prototype for the more infamous camps of World War II.
		While the account of his time in prison is unsettling, and the tale of the escape fast-paced, engaging, and suspenseful, what's more interesting is the view through his eyes, the observations, critiques, and judgments that flit about his mind.
		What makes the story effective, and the document itself worthy of review and consideration, are the abstract underpinnings of the yarn: the recognition and elevation of the specific ironies of the war-torn continent to the level of aphoristic truths about the absurdity of the world.
	www.citypaper.com /arts/review.asp?id=1765 (260 words)

	The Big Bang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		Geoffrey Pyke was a former spy and mad inventor!
		Pyke found that if you mix sawdust with water and freeze it, you end up with ice that's really, really hard to break.
		Pyke was determined to find a use for his ice ships.
	www.granadakids.com /bigbang/ser56/show9item5.html (273 words)

	Special Service Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		The Force was the brainchild of Englishman Geoffrey Pyke, an inventor, propagandist, statistician, financier, economist, and foreign correspondent.
		Pyke rarely bathed, shaved, or cut his hair, did not like to wear socks, and dressed in a badly stained, crumpled suit.
		But for all his shortcomings, Pyke was a brilliant man, and many of his ideas became the basis for important advances in a variety of disparate fields.
	www.worldwar2history.info /Army/elite/Special-Forces.html (597 words)

	World War 1 and 2 - Magnus Pyke
		Magnus Pyke was a figure in the media in the UK, who although apparently quite eccentric made an effort to explain science for a lay audience.
		Pyke shouting "science" and other sampled soundbites features on the song She Blinded Me With Science by Thomas Dolby.
		He was also known for the enthusiastic mannerism he had of waving his arms around as he spoke.
	www.worldwardiary.com /history/Magnus_Pyke (101 words)

	My Tank Has Hugest Treads
		Specific Features: Devised by eccentric British genius Geoffrey Pyke, the HMS Habbakuk was a true maverick in a time of mavericks.
		History: The Habbakuk project formally began in December of 1942 when Geoffrey Pyke convinced Lord Louis Mountbatten that his plans for an iceberg warship were worth examining.
		Pyke constructed a 60-foot long 1,000 ton mockup of the Habbakuk on Lake Patricia and invited Mountbatten to inspect his new prototype.
	www.somethingawful.com /d/news/my-tank-has-3.php (1924 words)

	Geoffrey Pyke - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Geoffrey Pyke - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Geoffrey Nathaniel Pyke (1894–1948, by suicide) was a British inventor.
		His ideas were often hard to implement or too far ahead of their time or just plain difficult to accept.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Geoffrey_Pyke (150 words)

	Magnus Pyke - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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		Magnus Pyke, Bibliography, See also and External link.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Magnus_Pyke (247 words)

	Encyclopedia: Geoffrey-Pyke
		A block of Pykrete Pykrete is a composite material made of approximately 14% sawdust (or, less frequently, wood pulp) and 86% ice by weight, invented by Max Perutz and proposed during World War II by Geoffrey Pyke to the Royal Navy as a candidate material for making a huge, unsinkable...
		A landlord is the owner of a house, apartment, condominium, or land which is rented or leased to an individual or business, who is called the tenant.
		Dr. Magnus Pyke (born in London, England on 29 December 1908; died in London on 19 October 1992) was a British scientist and media figure, who, although apparently quite eccentric, made an effort to explain science to a lay audience.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Geoffrey_Pyke (1005 words)

	Capsule Pipelines - History - Alternative Propulsion
		In September 1943 Lord Mountbatten, head of wartime Joint Command in London, requested Geoffrey Pyke to consider one of the most critical problems in the Pacific war theatre.
		Pyke proposed 'power-driven rivers', summed up by colleague Professor Bernal as, 'essentially for the use of pipelines to carry military and other stores in cylindrical containers travelling along with the oil or other liquid in the pipe.' Pkye suggested 4 or 6 inch pipes for smaller items, 2 foot pipes for larger items.
		Pyke pointed out that the idea of sending objects through a pipeline was not new, and that 'go-devil' cleaning brushes had been forced by liquid pressure through petrol pipelines in the United States as early at least as 1930.
	www.capsu.org /history/alternative_propulsion.html (2513 words)

	Navy News - News Desk - News - Carrier plan cut no ice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		Operation Habbakuk was the name of the plan by eccentric British boffin Geoffrey Pyke to construct, from a form of ice, either a 'relay floating air base' for long-range aircraft, an aircraft carrier for shorter-range anti-submarine patrols, an advance fighter base, or a cargo carrier.
		According to Pyke's cousin Magnus, the celebrity TV scientist, Geoffrey Pyke realised that with the addition of between four and fourteen per cent wood pulp as water freezes, a very hard, durable and buoyant substance is produced, which was named pycrete or pykrete in his honour.
		Churchill was interested in the prospects for huge vessels made of pycrete, but Allied advances in the war - including the Normandy landings - and the relative cheapness of steel aircraft carriers, led to the scheme being abandoned.
	www.navynews.co.uk /articles/2002/0201/0002010301.asp (455 words)

	Geoffrey Pyke - geoffrey pyke geofrey geovvrey geoffrei pike pyce geoffrez pzke byke geoffery eoffrey goffrey geffrey ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
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	www.bookpricesearchengine.com /325407_geoffrey-pyke_0971904782toruhlebenandbackwhatisabookreview.html (288 words)

	Steve Walker's Habbakuk of Ice
		It is the story of a forgotten man who was one of the greatest geniuses of the last century, the wonderfully eccentric 'Professor' Geoffrey Pyke, whose scheme it was to make immense berg-ships out of ice.
		A plaque at the edge of Patricia Lake commemorates it, and that is where this radioplay began.
		Geoffrey Pyke had an unshakeable belief that a human being could reason his way through any problem.
	www.swalks.com /habhead.html (266 words)

	To Ruhleben and Back by Geoffrey Pyke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		Originally published in 1916, TO RUHLEBEN AND BACK is a highly entertaining true story of World War I by a young English journalist, Geoffrey Pyke, who went to Berlin to cover the war.
		After some adventures in Berlin, he is captured by the Germans and placed in solitary confinement until he is transfered to Ruhleben, a camp for British enemy civilians.
		Pyke communicates the extraordinary difficulties he encounters, but writes in an engaging style that makes the book fun to read.
	home.earthlink.net /~copaceticcomicsco/Ruhlben.html (221 words)

	About The Collins Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		But in 1914, Pyke was just another Cambridge teenager who was brilliant at everything except his studies.
		And so begins an odyssey into the heart of wartime Berlin, and a plunge into a harrowing year of solitary confinement and imprisonment at Ruhleben, a horsetrack-turned-internment camp that is now considered the model for Germany's concentration camps.
		Lost to obscurity for over eighty years, his extraordinary book is a college student's sharp-tongued travelogue, a journey of hair-breadth escapes behind enemy lines, a sober meditation on imprisonment and escape...
	www.collinslibrary.com /about1.html (539 words)

	COMBINEDOPS Pykrete.htm
		Mountbatten was Chief of Combined Operations, an organisation responsible to the Chiefs of Staff for the development of equipment and special craft for offensive operations.
		One of his scientific advisers, Geoffrey Pyke, presented the idea of constructing "berg-ships" - up to 4,000 feet long, 600 feet wide and 130 feet in depth – that could be made cheaply, and in great numbers, from ice.
		In early 1943 two American professors discovered that a very tough material could be produced by adding a small amount of wood pulp to water before freezing.
	www.combinedops.com /Pykrete.htm (949 words)

	village voice > books > by
		Geoffrey Pyke was a shiftless Cambridge student who, on assignment for a London newspaper in WW I, penetrated Germany's closed borders armed only with a fake passport, a decent command of the language, and a keen eye for personal and national peculiarity.
		The prankish spirit that led Pyke to undertake the trip, goaded by "above all things the colossal humour of the idea," finally led him to discover a means of escape.
		In the end, the insights into Pyke's own mentality prove as fascinating as his adventure.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0327/vlssummer.php (1768 words)

	McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Excerpt from Geoffrey Pyke's To Ruhleben — And Back, a New Title from the Collins ...
		C O L L I N S L I B R A R Y. [Paul Collins is founder and editor of The Collins Library, a project dedicated to the reprinting of unusual, out-of-print literary works.
		The most recent title, To Ruhleben — And Back, follows the adventures of Geoffrey Pyke, who, as a teenager in 1914, convinced a London newspaper editor to let him travel to Germany as a war correspondent.
		Captured by German troops, Pyke was imprisoned at Ruhleben, a German internment camp, from which he eventually escaped, making his way home to write this travelogue at the age of twenty.]
	www.mcsweeneys.net /2003/04/28collins1.html (3948 words)

	Encyclopedia: Magnus Pyke
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		Thomas Dolby was born Thomas Morgan Robertson on October 14, 1958, and is a British musician.
		The Minister of Food was a British government job separated from that of the Minister of Agriculture from 1939 until 1954.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Magnus-Pyke (510 words)

	Geoffrey Perrett - geoffrey perrett geofrey perett perret geovvrey geoffrei geoffrez perredd berrett prerett geoffery ...
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		Geoffrey Petts Peter Calow - River Biota: Diversity and Dynamics: Selected Extracts from the Rivers Handbook - 086542716X
		Geoffrey Stuttard - Work is hell: an anatomy of workplace clichés - 035602718X
	www.bookpricesearchengine.com /325396_geoffrey-perrett_0671251074americainthetwentiesahistoryusedcomicbooks.html (175 words)

	The Ice Ship
		The incidental details as to how to solidify the beam were, according to the inventor, "merely matters of research and development easily solvable by anyone who really believed in the idea".
		Many inventions of varying degrees of absurdity, as well as some useful ones were put forward during the war, but none produced a dislocation of the Allied effort to a fraction of the extent achieved by 'Habakkuk', a proposal put forward by Geoffrey Pyke.
		Pyke put it to Lord Mountbatten, Chief of Combined Operations, on whose staff he Was; Mountbatten passed it to the Chiefs of Staff who passed it to the War Cabinet, the War Cabinet to Churchill.
	jwgibbs.cchem.berkeley.edu /CFGoodeve/habakkuk.html (1362 words)

	Pykrete (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		During WWII Pykrete was going to be our secret weapon -- boats made of ice and sawdust that don't melt and don't sink.
		According to Eccentrics by Henry and Melissa Billings, Geoffrey Pyke invented pykrete (sawdust ice) in the early 1940's as our secret weapon in WWII -- boats that can't sink.
		It was never used because the war went nuclear, but 60 foot long boats made of this stuff were floated on Canadian lakes during the summer of 1943 and did not appreciably melt.
	www.geocities.com /Broadway/1928/pykrete.htm (1175 words)

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