Local Heroes - Season 2 Episode 4 North East
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In Tyne and Wear Adam Hart-Davis re-creates the device conceived by Whitley Bay's Gladstone Adams. Travelling home from the FA Cup final, Adams had to fold down his windscreen in order to cope with a snowstorm. He realised there must be a better way to drive in bad weather, and invented the windscreen wiper. Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, Hart-Davis discovers, is the site of the invention of the friction match, devised by accident by John Walker. The cycling scientist also dismounts to build a steam turbine in the kitchen of its inventor's house, and to make a light bulb to celebrate its Gateshead creator.
- Title: Local Heroes
- Year: 2000
- Genre: Documentary
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- Cast: Adam Hart-Davis
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- Runtime: 48 minutes
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- Popularity: 0.989
- First Air Date: Jan 02, 1996
- Last Air date: Jun 27, 2000
- Season: 5 Season
- Episode: 42 Episode
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