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. His lifestyle and his appearance fit the mad scientist stereotype.
Most famous is his proposal to build giant aircraft carriers from Pykrete, a substance produced by freezing a mixture of water and wood pulp during World War II. 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.
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