Henry left one remarkably smart legacy which is still strong today. The mutual insurance company called Trinity House gets a small fee every time a ship docks safely in a British port. In return, it maintains lighthouses and foghorns and other navigation aids. It played a large part in funding Marconi's wireless telegraphs, and still maintains the electronic versions of lighthouses and foghorns.
Trinity House would be an excellent model for all science and research funding. Instead of letting governments set the fashion, all research should be motivated by making a profit on successful solutions of problems. More solutions = more funding.
Your mention of the Mary Rose and how it was raised calls to mind Sweden’s Vasa. That’s a great story too, with another outsized king, Gustav the Great. The Vasa museum on Djurgården is wonderful.
Fascinating!
Henry left one remarkably smart legacy which is still strong today. The mutual insurance company called Trinity House gets a small fee every time a ship docks safely in a British port. In return, it maintains lighthouses and foghorns and other navigation aids. It played a large part in funding Marconi's wireless telegraphs, and still maintains the electronic versions of lighthouses and foghorns.
Trinity House would be an excellent model for all science and research funding. Instead of letting governments set the fashion, all research should be motivated by making a profit on successful solutions of problems. More solutions = more funding.
http://polistrasmill.blogspot.com/2020/08/trinity-house-and-marconi.html
Funny you should mention Trinity. I have a couple of friends who work for Trinity and work out of my hometown repairing the bouys etc.
Your mention of the Mary Rose and how it was raised calls to mind Sweden’s Vasa. That’s a great story too, with another outsized king, Gustav the Great. The Vasa museum on Djurgården is wonderful.
I’ll have to look into that as I bet that’s bloody interesting!! Thank you for reading!!