Local Heroes

TV Show (1999 - 2004)

Adam Hart-Davis cycles round the UK, telling the stories of each region's pioneering scientists and inventors

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Season 2 Episode 4: North East
Adam Hart-Davis pays tribute to the pioneers of the North East, including Gateshead's Joseph Swan, who invented the light bulb long before Thomas Edison applied for his patent, and John Walker from Stockton-on-Tees, who devised the friction match. Plus, the achievements of Charles Algernon Parsons, whose marine turbine took the 1897 Naval Review by storm
Season 2 Episode 3: East
Adam Hart-Davis cycles to East Anglia, where he tests a prisoner-punishing treadmill and recreates a gadget that enables even the poorest artists to produce masterpieces
Season 2 Episode 1: Devon
Adam Hart-Davis discovers a 19th-century waterless toilet and presents a re-creation of Brunel's railway between Exeter and Newton Abbot

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