Hand in glove with Peter Homer FROM the Longitude Prize offered by Britain's parliament in 1714, as reward for a way for ships to determine their location when out of sight of land, to the Orteig Prize, offered in 1919 for a crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by aeroplane, the giving of prizes for technological endeavour has had an illustrious history. Such prizes fell out of favour after the second world war, but a renaissance began in 1996 when Peter Diamandis, an entrepreneurial engineer, announc...
Hand in glove with Peter Homer FROM the Longitude Prize offered by Britain's parliament in 1714, as reward for a way for ships to determine their location when out of sight of land, to the Orteig Prize, offered in 1919 for a crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by aeroplane, the giving of prizes for technological endeavour has had an illustrious history. Such prizes fell out of favour after the second world war, but a renaissance began in 1996 when Peter Diamandis, an entrepreneurial engineer, announc...
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