March 2, 1998
First of an eight-part series in which Adam Hart-Davis cycles around the country in search of the unsung heroes of science. He vi...Read more
March 9, 1998
Adam Hart-Davis cycles around the country in search of the unsung heroes of science. This week he visits London, where he builds ...Read more
March 16, 1998
In the first of two programmes to mark Science Week, Adam Hart-Davis travels to Egypt in search of the earliest heroes of science....Read more
March 19, 1998
In the second programme for Science Week that traces the origins of modern science, Adam Hart-Davis visits southern Italy, home t...Read more
March 23, 1998
Adam Hart-Davis continues his search for unsung heroes of science when he cycles around the south of England. On a stop-off in Sur...Read more
March 26, 1998
Adam Hart-Davis cycles around Ireland to rediscover some scientific milestones. He looks at how John Tyndall found the sky was blu...Read more
March 30, 1998
Adam Hart-Davis searches for unsung heroes of science on a trip to the Potteries, Staffordshire. Using a few pipes, a ribbon and a...Read more
April 6, 1998
Adam Hart-Davis takes a ferry across the Mersey to celebrate the work of the North West's unsung heroes of science in the last of ...Read more
September 7, 1998
Adam Hart Davis begins another cycling tour in search of more tales of pioneering inventors in an eight-part fourth series. Hart-...Read more
September 14, 1998
This week Hart-Davis makes the journey to Elgin, re-creating the moment when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and to ...Read more
September 21, 1998
In Delft, Hart-Davis profiles the draper who was the first person to see bacteria through a microscope and the book-keeper whose g...Read more
September 28, 1998
Adam Hart-Davis recalls William Sturgeon's inventing the electric motor and James Nasmyth's steam hammer; he also sees Joseph Paxt...Read more
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 ...Read more
October 12, 1998
Episode 14 of Season 3 premiered on October 12, 1998
October 19, 1998
Adam Hart-Davis cycles to Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire to find out about this week's heroes. They include Frank Whittle, who...Read more
October 26, 1998
Adam Hart-Davis concludes the series by visiting western Scotland. There he learns about John Logie Baird, inventor of the televis...Read more