Lanchester Interactive Archive: Games / VR
Games / VR
The archive is more than just a collection of documents, sketches, patents and photographs and there are lots of different ways to discover more about Lanchester’s genius.
You can play a series of Games that bring his inventions to life, before downloading the VR apps to experience the archive in a totally immersive way on this page.
Lanchester's Interactive Games
Auto Engineer
Build your own car in Fred’s workshop and test out different engines, suspension and components to complete the challenges – from armoured cars to Brooklands racers!
Flight
Select the best wings, propellers airframe and components for your plane and then pilot it through the rings to finish – see Fred’s innovations come to life in his workshop.
Aerodone
Welcome to the drawing board. Try and figure how different wing types change a plane’s flight path – Fred's gliders took to the air in 1894 and you can fly them too.
Gears
Use different gears and ratios to get the right amount of power to all the components in the gear box – starts off simple, but can you get that worm gear working?
You can play our games in your browser.
Take up Lanchester’s challenges and have fun at the same time with our serious games. Explore Fred’s ingenious suspension, wheels and more in the automotive engineering challenge. Jump into his futuristic flying machines designed over 100 years ago and fly around his workshop. Test Fred’s theories from the earliest days of aeronautics in the aerodone game and finally dive into the fiendish gears games to power his mad machines.
Virtual Reality App
Lanchester VR
Take your experience to another level with the Oculus Go VR headset and the Lanchester VR app.
Download the app and enter Fred’s workshop to play games, experience the sights and sounds of his inventions coming to live and have a guided tour of his amazing inovations.
Head to the Oculus store to download the free app now: