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Local Heroes

Series 3

Episode 16: Glasgow

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC Knowledge

The series concludes with a visit to Glasgow, where Adam Hart-Davis learns about John Logie Baird, who invented the television, and Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, who invented the cloud chamber. He also finds out more about brothers William and James Thomson, who established absolute zero temperature and laid the first transatlantic cable, and Kirkpatrick MacMillan, whose innovations led to the invention of the bicycle. Show less

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