Man Alive

The Inventors: Why Didn't I Think of That? (1978x18)

Air date: May 30, 1978

Programme image Inventions are increasingly coming from research teams in large industrial firms, though there are still a few lone inventors out there. But does Britain care enough to encourage and back them with private or public funds? Harold Williamson meets inventors who have spent years trying to convince manufacturers, while Nick Ross talks to financiers and industrialists about the problems inventors face in the commercial world.