Local Heroes

Local Heroes· Season 4 · Episode 2

East of Scotland

S04E02·July 12, 1999

Adam Hart-Davis's cycling tour of Britain takes him to Scotland, where he visits St Andrews to see how backspin helps a golf ball defy gravity and Stonehaven, home of the inventor of pneumatic tyres. Plus he builds his own radar, and uncovers the origins of fibre optics in Edinburgh.

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