Time and Transmitters

Synopsis: A series of six programmes in which five scientists are marooned, with very basic equipment, on the Caribbean island of Carriacou, just north of Granada, where they are challenged to use their scientific knowledge as survival skills. The participants are Mike Bullivant (chemist), Kathy Sykes and Jonathan Hare (physicists), Mike Leahy (virologist) and Ellen McCallie (ethnobotanist).

In this third programme the challenge is how to keep in touch and when to do it. First the team must make a transmitter and receiver able to communicate over half a mile. They do so using a car battery, spark transmitter, wire and a razor blade. They also build a clock which chimes on the hour as well as two portable timepieces synchronised to the main clock. The third challenge is to make a kite from plant leaves to carry an aerial.
Series: Rough Science, Series 2, Course Xs003
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2002
Year of production: 2001
Notes: Broadcast on BBC2 on 21/5/02
Subjects: Science
Keywords: applied science; electrical signals; time measurement

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