Biography

Supercharge your next meeting with dynamic speaker Richard L. Busenkell! A double-degreed mechanical engineer with a wealth of experience in the aerospace and petroleum industries, he has an arsenal of facts about major scientific and technological topics of our time, delivered in a charming way that will delight your audience. He is hailed as the "Apostle of Responsible Technology," the aporestec, for his insistence that technology should have a positive moral dimension. His knowledge of automotive history and technology is so great that he was the Grand Prize winner of Road & Track magazine's 35th-Anniversary Quiz, in which he (in the magazine's words) "slaughtered the opposition."  He has written over a hundred automotive articles. He is also a published historian and novelist, with a particular emphasis on the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln, as his years of living in Richmond, Virginia -- the former capital of the Confederacy -- instilled in him a passion for that fascinating, turbulent, and tragic time in American history. His novel, A Silence At Arlington, has been hailed by one reviewer as "the greatest novel of the Civil War since Gone With The Wind." All his presentations are lavish PowerPoints, with images obtained from a huge number of sources. Guarantee: your audience will not be bored by this fascinating speaker!!