Rollercoaster: The Secret Genius of Modern Life
Season 3 Episode 3 of 5
Hannah Fry gets the inside story on the UK's newest, tallest and fastest coaster, Thorpe Park's Hyperia, and uncovers the origins of the modern-day rollercoaster. She finds out how some dodgy French physics in the 19th-century, NASA rocket scientists, and an ambitious cartoonist, called Walt, delivered the ultimate thrill machine
Rollercoaster: The Secret Genius of Modern Life airs on BBC Two Wales HD at 8:00 PM, Wednesday 16 April. (Audio Description, subtitles, new.)
Topics
Education ➝ Science ➝ Factual Topics
Technology
Hannah Fry
Presenter
Fay Finlay
Director
Eileen Inkson
Executive Producer
Paul Overton
Executive Producer