Cafe Scientifique: Another Fascinating Talk Tonight

The eighth meeting Cafe Scientifique takes place tonight (Monday) In the Regency Room at the Shanklin Conservative Club.

TapestryThe speaker will be Dr Alan Chambers, a senior lecturer in the department of Materials Engineering at Southampton University.

He’ll be talking about “Engineering in Medicine, Art, Fashion & Sport”.

This will include such subjects as stress testing historical tapestries and why our first fleet of commercial jet aircraft, the Comets, had several tragic crashes.

For full details of time, place etc see Events On The Wight.

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