Local Heroes (1995)

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4x1
South
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Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) Composition of Water, Mass of The Earth Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Frozen Food, Scientific Investigation John Ray (1627-1705) Botany William Heath-Robinson (1872-1944)
4x2
East Of Scotland
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James Dewar (1842-1923) Vacuum Flask James Lind (1716-1794) Cure for Scurvy Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) Telephone (14/02/1876) Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869) Persistence of Vision, Thesaurus
4x3
Netherlands
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Simon Stevin (1548-1620) Independence of Free-Fall, Wind-Driven Carriage Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) Compound Microscope Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) Temperature Scale Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) Pendulum Clock
4x4
North
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Richard Towneley (1629-1707) Boyle's Law William Sturgeon (1783-1850) Electric Motor, Electro-magnet Joseph Paxton (1801-1865) Greenhouse James Nasmyth (1808-1890) Automatic Hammer Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) Atomic Nucleus
4x5
Gloucestershire & Wiltshire
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William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) Photography Edwin Beard Budding (1795-1846) Lawn Mower Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) Concertina Jan Ingenhousz (1730-1799) Photosynthesis
4x6
Heroines
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Mary Waller (1887-1960) Plate Vibrations Elizabeth Dakin Coffee Strainer Jane Marcet (1769-1858) Chemistry Textbook Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) Structure of DNA
4x7
East Midlands
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Robert Bakewell (1725-1795) Evolution by Artificial Selection Edmund Cartwright (1743-1823) Interlocking Bricks, Powered Loom Emmeline Jean Hanson (1919-1973) Action of Muscle Fibre Frank Whittle (1907-1996) Jet Engine
4x8
Scotland
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Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1812-1878) Pedal Driven Bicycle (1839) William (Lord Kelvin) Thomson (1824-1907) Absolute Zero James Thomson (1822-1892) Glacial Flow William (Lord Kelvin) .. show full overview

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