Episode
Horizon: Boys on Bubbles / Problems and Puzzles
Overview
Horizon re-stages highlights from Professor C. V. Boys's famous Christmas lectures on bubbles and surface tension which drew crowds to the London Institution sixty-six years ago. Then, a mathematician challenges you to solve some of the puzzles he has invented.
Details
- Series
- Horizon
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 24
- Air date
- 1966-09-25
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Boys on Bubbles / Problems and Puzzles is Episode 24 in 1965 of Horizon. It aired on 1966-09-25. The runtime is 60 min.
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