ADAM HART-DAVIS
(Adam John Hart-Davis)
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One steam engine, pulling a large plow by cables and manned by 5 or 6 workers could do the work of 20 horse drawn plows each requiring 1 worker. In addition all the workers who were needed to maintain the horses and clean up after them were also no longer required.
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Adam John Hart-Davis is an English scientist, author, photographer, historian and broadcaster, well known in the UK for presenting the BBC television series Local Heroes and What the Romans Did for Us, the latter spawning several spin-off series involving the Victorians, the Tudors, the Stuarts and the Ancients. He was also a co-presenter of Tomorrow's World, and presented Science Shack.
