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Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections: Series 2

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Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections: Series 2: Episode 1: Wembley Stadium

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BBC Two - Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections, Series 2, Wembley Stadium

Richard Hammond discovers the Engineering Connections behind the home of English football.

Richard Hammond discovers the Engineering Connections behind the new high-tech home of English football, and reveals the unlikely inspiration for the architects.

Richard Hammond stands atop of the Wembley roof, in front of its record-breaking arch to discover the Engineering Connections behind the new high-tech home of English football. Richard reveals how the architects and engineers, under pressure to maintain Wembley's iconic status as a world-class sporting and music venue, drew inspiration from a rock climbing knot, the first glider to carry a man, a high powered medieval crossbow, stealth aircraft technology and Archimedes' buoyancy theory that surfaced over two thousand years ago.

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