Local Heroes

Local Heroes· Season 3 · Episode 13

Gloucestershire

S03E13·October 5, 1998

Adam Hart-Davis recalls the work of Edwin Beard Budding, who invented the lawnmower, and focuses on William Henry Fox Talbot, the father of modern photography. Plus James Bradley, who was the first to calculate correctly the speed of light; Sir Charles Wheatstone, who invented the concertina; and Jan Ingenhousz, who discovered photosynthesis.

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