>This lecture was filmed at the Ri on Saturday 01 Dec 1973. These lectures were some of the last Ri Christmas Lectures to be delivered totally live on the BBC.
>We’ll be releasing these lectures throughout October, but if you sign up as a Science Supporter you’ll get early, ad-free access to all of them now, as well as our other talks, all while supporting our vital scientific work: / @theroyalinstitution
Edit: With the correct date
Most of the kids in the audience are in their 60s now 🧓
The first RI lectures I remember – they were good, but the year after Eric Laithwaite did the “Engineer through the Looking Glass” lectures that were just awesome – loads and loads of engineering demos, using “Through the Looking” glass quotes as seeds – and the demos were just right for kids – strapping them to poles and handing them gyroscopes that would jump 100ft if dropped to demonstrate precession. Well worth enduring the potato quality videos on YouTube for.
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>This lecture was filmed at the Ri on Saturday 01 Dec 1973. These lectures were some of the last Ri Christmas Lectures to be delivered totally live on the BBC.
>We’ll be releasing these lectures throughout October, but if you sign up as a Science Supporter you’ll get early, ad-free access to all of them now, as well as our other talks, all while supporting our vital scientific work: / @theroyalinstitution
Edit: With the correct date
Most of the kids in the audience are in their 60s now 🧓
The first RI lectures I remember – they were good, but the year after Eric Laithwaite did the “Engineer through the Looking Glass” lectures that were just awesome – loads and loads of engineering demos, using “Through the Looking” glass quotes as seeds – and the demos were just right for kids – strapping them to poles and handing them gyroscopes that would jump 100ft if dropped to demonstrate precession. Well worth enduring the potato quality videos on YouTube for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnNUTOxHoto&list=PL5F608FD34D76BDEF
Thanks OP, I love this!