Synopsis
Adam Hart-Davis travels to Egypt in search of the earliest heroes of science. Using a drinks can and a stove, he recreates Hero of Alexandria's invention of the steam engine. Other early geniuses include Eratosthenes, who calculated the earth's circumference using only a stick, and Alhazen of Cairo, who devised the pinhole camera.
- Programme: Local Heroes
- Series: 3
- Episode: 03: Egypt
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 1998
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