Local Heroes - Season 2 Episode 5 Wales
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On a visit to Wales cycling scientist Adam Hart-Davis gets bogged down on the road to Holyhead. Fortunately, one of his heroes is the great road builder Thomas Telford, so Hart-Davis is able to rebuild the road using scientific principles. He also finds out more about the reclusive inventor who claimed his death ray could kill a rat at 64 feet; the bonesetters of Anglesey, whose extraordinary skill was passed down through four generations; and Robert Recorde who invented the equals sign. In Merthyr Tydfil, where the first railway locomotive was run 25 years before George Stephenson's Rocket. Hart-Davis celebrates its inventor, the Cornish wrestler Richard Trevithick.
- Title: Local Heroes
- Year: 2000
- Genre: Documentary
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- Cast: Adam Hart-Davis
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- Runtime: 48 minutes
- IMDb: 0.00 / 10 by 0 users
- 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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