Plot: In the last programme of the series, Adam Hart-Davis celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Royal Institution - made famous by pioneering scientists Michael Faraday and Humphry Davy.
Hart-Davis makes an electric motor from a meat-pie tin and shows how it was proven that when horses gallop there is a point when all four feet are airborne
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Local Heroes - Season 4 - Royal Institution Special (Episode 6)
Episode Aired On:
Monday, August 9 1999
25 years ago
Monday, August 9 1999
25 years ago
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