Local Heroes

Local Heroes· Season 4 · Episode 6

Royal Institution Special

S04E06·August 9, 1999

In the last programme of the series, Adam Hart-Davis celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Royal Institution - made famous by pioneering scientists Michael Faraday and Humphry Davy. Hart-Davis makes an electric motor from a meat-pie tin and shows how it was proven that when horses gallop there is a point when all four feet are airborne. A new series is planned. Website: [web address remove

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