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Local Heroes

Season 4 1998
TV-G

  • 1998-09-06T23:00:00Z on BBC
  • 30m
  • 4h (8 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Adam Hart-Davis recalls local heroes of science and invention.

8 episodes

Season Premiere

1998-09-06T23:00:00Z

4x01 South

Season Premiere

4x01 South

  • 1998-09-06T23:00:00Z30m

Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) Composition of Water, Mass of The Earth
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Frozen Food, Scientific Investigation
John Ray (1627-1705) Botany
William Heath-Robinson (1872-1944)

1998-09-13T23:00:00Z

4x02 East Of Scotland

4x02 East Of Scotland

  • 1998-09-13T23:00:00Z30m

James Dewar (1842-1923) Vacuum Flask
James Lind (1716-1794) Cure for Scurvy
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) Telephone (14/02/1876)
Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869) Persistence of Vision, Thesaurus

1998-09-20T23:00:00Z

4x03 Netherlands

4x03 Netherlands

  • 1998-09-20T23:00:00Z30m

Simon Stevin (1548-1620) Independence of Free-Fall, Wind-Driven Carriage
Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) Compound Microscope
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) Temperature Scale
Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) Pendulum Clock

1998-09-27T23:00:00Z

4x04 North

4x04 North

  • 1998-09-27T23:00:00Z30m

Richard Towneley (1629-1707) Boyle's Law
William Sturgeon (1783-1850) Electric Motor, Electro-magnet
Joseph Paxton (1801-1865) Greenhouse
James Nasmyth (1808-1890) Automatic Hammer
Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) Atomic Nucleus

4x05 Gloucestershire & Wiltshire

  • 1998-10-04T23:00:00Z30m

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) Photography
Edwin Beard Budding (1795-1846) Lawn Mower
Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) Concertina
Jan Ingenhousz (1730-1799) Photosynthesis

1998-10-11T23:00:00Z

4x06 Heroines

4x06 Heroines

  • 1998-10-11T23:00:00Z30m

Mary Waller (1887-1960) Plate Vibrations
Elizabeth Dakin Coffee Strainer
Jane Marcet (1769-1858) Chemistry Textbook
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) Structure of DNA

1998-10-18T23:00:00Z

4x07 East Midlands

4x07 East Midlands

  • 1998-10-18T23:00:00Z30m

Robert Bakewell (1725-1795) Evolution by Artificial Selection
Edmund Cartwright (1743-1823) Interlocking Bricks, Powered Loom
Emmeline Jean Hanson (1919-1973) Action of Muscle Fibre
Frank Whittle (1907-1996) Jet Engine

1998-10-26T00:00:00Z

4x08 Scotland

4x08 Scotland

  • 1998-10-26T00:00:00Z30m

Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1812-1878) Pedal Driven Bicycle (1839)
William (Lord Kelvin) Thomson (1824-1907) Absolute Zero
James Thomson (1822-1892) Glacial Flow
William (Lord Kelvin) Thomson (1824-1907) Transatlantic Cable
Charles Wilson (1869-1959) Particle Detector
John Logie Baird (1888-1946) Television

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